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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 401 — Chapter IV · MODERN WIT AND SATIRE.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

He may have done so either in the hope of obtaining the red hat or from fear of the new activity of the Inquisition, which he had ventured to attack bitterly in 1535 (l. c. fol. 37), but which, after the reorganisation of the institution in 1542, suddenly took a fresh start, and soon silenced every opposing voice.

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