Note 1136 — Chapter III · RELIGION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Preface to the Historia Ferdinandi I. (Hist. Ztschr. xxxiii. 61) and Antid. in Pogg. lib. iv. Opp. p. 256 sqq. Pontanus (De Sermone, i. 18) says that Valla did not hesitate ‘dicere profiterique palam habere se quoque in Christum spicula.’ Pontano, however, was a friend of Valla’s enemies at Naples.