Gilberti Cognati Nozereni aliquot epistolae

are received with laughter by many who know the man more closely. But if this game should turn out for them with impunity, who would choose to live his life here where drunken Thrasos, most crafty sycophants, murderers, thieves, perjurers, fornicators, usurers, gamblers, and nocturnal prowlers are not only safe, but also held in high esteem? Those who are innocent and study and profess more polished letters are treated thus at the whim of one or another insane hypocrite. They have not yet been able to show any rejected dogma in my books; they only vomit up suspicions and distortions, and sometimes manifest calumnies. I have always shown myself prepared, if there were any human failing in my writings, to either excuse it or correct it. But from now on, nothing is certain concerning sacred matters ἀδέσποτα masterless/wandering things. I shall enjoy a good conscience, since I see no hope of fruit, and I return to my Muses, within whose most pleasant groves I wish I had remained forever. Regarding the rest, the fates will find a way; to me, certainly, nothing appears where I might cast the anchor of my hope, except for the one Christ, who is the same yesterday and today and forever, to whom we live even when we die. These things I write are most true, most distinguished Prelate: and I wanted your Excellency to know them, so that you might remove the suspicion, if you have conceived any,
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