Part 22 (2/2)

[95] Luther's letter, in which he evidently atteainst his _De Servo Arbitrio_ (The Will not free), which was a reply to Erasmus's _De Libero Arbitrio_ (On free Will), 1524 Luther's letter came 'too late' because Erasmus had already composed the _Hyperaspistes Diatribe adversus Servum Arbitrium Martini Lutheri_, Basle, Froben, 1526

[96] John Fisher (1459?-1535)

[97] John Dobeneck of Wendelstein

[98] ie, the _De Libero Arbitrio_

[99] Reading _reticeo_ for _retices_

[100] Theophrastus Bombast of Einsiedeln (also known as Theophrastus of Hohenheim, whence his ancestors came), 1493-1541 The nanify a claireater than Celsus, the Roman physician Appointed _physicus et ordinarius Basiliensis_ in 1527

[101] Paracelsus had diagnosed the stone, fro due to crystallization of salt in the kidneys

[102] Froben died before the year was out

[103] Martin Butzer (_c_ 1491-1551), later Bucer, a Dominican, who obtained dispensation from his vows in 1521 and adhered to the Refor party, and this letter is probably an answer to a request for an interview for Bucer and other Strasbourg delegates on their way through Basle to Berne He eventually becae under Edward VI

[104] Henry of Eppendorff, a former friend who followed Hutten on his quarrel with Erasust 1530, that in the Reforuae_ and it may be some such criticism, based on what he had heard fro), to which Bucer had taken exception in his letter

[106] Alfonso Valdes (1490?-1532), a devoted admirer of Erasmus, was from 1522 onwards one of Charles V's secretaries He wrote two dialogues in defence of the E Institute_, I (1937-8), p 66

[108] Greek God of ridicule

[109] Livy, I, 55, 3 Livy refers to the clearing of the Tarpeian rock by Tarquinius Superbus (534-510 BC), involving the deconsecration of existing shrines, as a preli of the teuries allowed the evacuation of the other Gods, Ter to depart

[110] Livy, 5, 54, 7

[111] See p 66

[112] Preface to _T Liviihistoriae_, Basle, Froben, 1531 Charles Blount (b 1518), eldest son of William Blount, Lord Mountjoy

[113] _c_ 1495-1541, Professor of Greek at Basle, 1529 He found the MS containing Livy, Bks 41-5, in 1527

[114] Not 'illuminated' Erasmus refers elsewhere (Allen 919 55) to a codex as _non scripto sed picto_

[115] The MS, now lost, containing Bks 33, 17-49 and 40, 37-59, found in the cathedral library at Mainz, published in Mainz, J Schoeffer, Noveht Latin and Greek at Freiburg and becae there; in 1534 becae de France Retired to Coblenz in 1542

[117] By the Edict of Courcy

[118] Aettine Syon College at Isleworth

[120] More had been executed 6 July 1535