Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has studied Stunica's "Erasmus of Rotterdam Blasphemies and Impieties" which he drafted in the fall of 1521 and presented to Pope Leo X. This was in three books with extensive critical argumentation prefacing each with a personal letter to Pope Leo X laying out his charges by way of evidence. Pope Leo X forbade it's printing, but he died in December of that year, and Stunica proceeded with a severely edited version removing the bulk of his arguments - I think this printing was only 54 pages long, and is vastly different from the original three books.

If anyone has done any work in this area I would like to discuss it and pick your brain a bit.

Cordially,

Thomas

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Thomas Weddle
Member, Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church
Evansville, Indiana

The controversy between Erasmus and James (Jacobus) Lopez Stunica (d. 1530/1531) is one that I have come across reference to in my studies, but I have not read Stunica's works or Erasmus' rebuttal. Stunica was an editor of the Complutensian Polyglot, supervised by Cardinal Cisneros (Ximenes).

FWIW, I have found some interesting references to the controversy here and here.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

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