Note 318 — LXXIX.—To Madame the Duchess of Ferrara.[310]
Reading edition
The conclusion of this letter is wanting in the original French, and we restore it here from the Latin translation inserted, (Calv. Epistolæ et Responsa, edit. d'Amsterdam, p. 93.) A near approximation to the date of that piece is supplied by the passage relative to Capito:—"Et de cela Capito qui est l'ung de ceux qui taschent fort à modérer les choses, a naguères inscript un livre." The dedication of this book to Henry VIII. is of the 15th March 1537; the death of Capito happened in December 1541; and the letter of Calvin to the Duchess of Ferrara, written from Geneva, between the two events, places the date, without doubt, in October 1541, after the return of the Reformer to that town.