Gilberti Cognati Nozereni aliquot epistolae

Paulinus, a perispasanos disturber/distractor, there is no particular discord on my part. But they serve the affections of the karkinou kai lykolapenos crab and wolf-glutton/wolf-sneaker. I confess, there is need against an evil knot, as they say, for an evil wedge. For prudent and good men undertake such functions with difficulty: but meanwhile, the wisdom of the nobles must provide that, while the tares are being removed, the wheat is not also pulled up: and while the guilty are called to punishment, the innocent are not involved, nor the authority of the Imperial Majesty, which is eager for public tranquility, be distorted so that it serves the private affections of some. It is impious to call into calumny those who serve piety: it is inhuman to push the weak and wavering into the camps of the allophylōn foreigners/aliens: it is useless for ending this fatal evil, which has permeated almost all of Europe, to alienate those who could be healed by reasonable means. It would be better to imitate good doctors, who do not approach excision and cauterization unless all remedies have first been tried in vain. Indeed, following the example of Christ, who does not crush a broken reed nor extinguish a smoking flax, one must heal with all gentleness and meet the disease with light remedies. But they are very far from the gentleness of Christ who attack the innocent, and who oppress with calumnies the geniuses happily born with a love of good letters, which can bring the greatest ornament and utility either to their own commonwealth or to the Church of Christ. For it is of Christian gentleness,