Note 391 — Chapter IV · MODERN WIT AND SATIRE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
The fear which he caused to men of mark, especially artists, by these means, cannot be here described. The publicistic weapon of the German Reformation was chiefly the pamphlet dealing with events as they occurred; Aretino is a journalist in the sense that he has within himself a perpetual occasion for writing.