[1680] See vol. iii., pp. 151 f., 355 f. The picture in Denifle-Weiss, p. 837.
[1681] Cp. “Werke,” Erl. ed., 26², p. 177. Above, p. 383 f.—According to the Table-Talk (“Werke,” Erl. ed., 60, p. 239) Luther was once shown a picture of the Pope being hanged on his keys. Possibly this is the same caricature of the Pope, which, according to Lauterbach’s “Tagebuch,” p. 64, he altered and amended with “technæ veraces et odiosæ” on Good Friday, 1538. It has no connection with the present picture on which the keys do not appear.
[1682] Luther wrote a special work in 1545 on the supposed deed of Alexander III. Others with less reason take the picture to represent Gregory VII and Henry IV; the verses are of quite a general character. [Was it not rather suggested by an incident in the pontificate of Alexander’s English predecessor, viz. Adrian IV? Note to English Edition.]
[1683] Bl. 177´ and 178.
[1684] Wendeler (above, p. 422, n. 1), p. 33. Lehfeldt (above, p. 422, n. 3), p. 71.
[1685] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 26, p. 170; Erl. ed., 26², p. 316, in “Von der Widdertauffe,” 1528.
[1686] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 9, p. 701 ff. Ib., the pictures. This ridicule of the Papacy greatly appealed to him (“mire placet”), as he writes to Melanchthon on May 26, 1521 (“Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 162).
[1687] “Werke,” ib., 19, p. 7 ff., with the woodcuts in which the pig plays a part.
[1688] Pp. 67, 69.
[1689] April 14, 1545, “Briefe,” 5, p. 727.