Printed in the United States

Nihil Obstat:

ARTHUR J. SCANLAN, S.T.D.

Censor Librorum.

Imprimatur:

PATRICK CARDINAL HAYES.

Archbishop, New York.

New York, March 30, 1927.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO

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CHAPTER

I. THE Nouum Testamentum

II. THE Nouum Testamentum: QUARREL WITH LEE

III. THE Nouum Testamentum: CONTROVERSY WITH STUNCIA

IV. FINAL DISPENSATION FROM LEO X

V. CORRESPONDENCE AND PLANS

VI. CONSIDERATION OF MARTIN LUTHER

VII. ERASMUS AND LUTHER

VIII. DEATH OF COLET: COLET'S CONVOCATION SERMON

IX. THE Colloquia

x. HUTTEN'S ATTEMPT TO FORCE ERASMUS TO TAKE POSITION;

PRIVATE CONCLAVE ON LUTHER: ERASMUS' LOST OPPOR-

TUNITY; LUTHER BEFORE THE DIET OF WORMS

152

XI. CONTINUED ATTACKS: TROUBLE AT LOUVAIN

168

XII. THE STORM INCREASES: ANOMALOUS POSITION OF ERASMUS.

XIII. ACCESSION OF ADRIAN VI: HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH

ERASMUS

182

197

XIV. CONTINUED Attempts to JUSTIFY POSITION: QUARREL WITH

HUTTEN.

210

XV. ACCESSION OF CLEMENT VII; ERASMUS WRITES AGAINST

LUTHER PUBLICATION DELAYED: CORRESPONDENCE

:

ERASMUS AND LUTHER

XVI. De libero arbitrio: EFFECT ON ERASMUS' POSITION; EFFECT

ON LUTHER

XVII. CONTROVERSY WITH Bedda.

XVIII. LAST LETTER TO LUTHER; SOME WORKS OF ERASMUS IN

XIX. EUROPE IN TURMOIL: Erasmus Amid the Storm; TROUBLE

OVER WRITINGS IN SPAIN

XX. THE Ciceronianus: FURTHER CONTROVERSIES

XXI. RESIDENCE AT BASLE NO LONGER POSSIBLE: DEPARTURE TO

FREIBURG

XXII. Loss of FAVOR WITH Emperor; ATTACKS FROM ALL SIDES:
DISCOURAGEMENT

CHAPTER

XXIII. ADVICE OF FRIENDS; Death of Warham; RecantaTION OF

ERASMUS

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340

XXIV. SICKNESS; LUTHER ON ERASMUS; Death OF CLEMENT VII 352

XXV. CONTINUED Illness: BASLE AGAIN: Cardinalate Declined;

FINAL LETTERS

XXVI. DEATH OF ERASMUS: OPINIONS OF ContemporaRIES

XXVII. CHARActer and InfLUENCE

359