Note 914 — Chapter XX · THE GOSPEL AT NAPLES AND ROME. (1520-1536.)

Abecedario espiritual, fols. 11-12. Valdez gives a full report of this conversation in his Spiritual Abecedary, which he so called because it was intended to teach the elements of Christian perfection. There is no doubt as to the genuineness of the dialogues he reports, for the duchess asked him to commit what he had said to her to paper. Did Valdez, when doing so, complete any of his answers? It is very possible. In Herzog’s Encyclopædia, M. Bœhmer has given an extract from this dialogue, much longer than the limits of this history will permit us to do.