TO THE DIVINE FERDINAND, EMPEROR.

should I not call it Christian by antonomasia the use of a title or epithet in place of a proper name, by which Christ wished to explain his most sacrosanct tenets in a familiar, maternal language, and from which, against the innumerable corrupters of the copies and sentences of Christ, the highest remedy of truth and faithful testimony is supplied, as if it had proceeded from the very mouth of Christ himself?) the Chancellor himself inscribed and noted it; I was there immediately, not without the divine power of Providence. For besides the fact that I immediately took care of the matter for the preparation of both languages with Gaspar the sculptor (for I had Arabic characters of small size engraved there, nor did I stop at having Christian ones cast according to their own laws), good God, with what humanity did your Majesty receive me? This one thing alone would create faith, that when you were barely providing 80 gold coins for the annual salary of your University's highest professors, according to the ancient custom of studies, you decided to immediately grant me 200 from the very beginning of my arrival.