Note 151 — Chapter IX · THE BOOK PRODUCTION OF EUROPE AS AFFECTED BY CENSORSHIP (continued 2)

The Evangelium Romanum was a Protestant satire on indulgences, printed in Leipsic, without the name of the author, in 1600. The book was as a joke ascribed to Jacques Davy, Bishop of Evreaux. Davy was better known under the name of Du Perron. He was a convert from Protestantism and was the Bishop selected to bring King Henry IV into the Catholic fold. The Evangelium Romanum was reprinted more than once and appears to have secured a wide circulation. Curiously enough, it did not find place upon the Index (Reusch, ii, 213).