[913]. Sadoleti Epist. p. 558. Schrœk, Kirchengeschichte, ii. p. 780.
[914]. Abecedario espiritual, fols. 11-12. Valdez gives a full report of this conversation in his Spiritual Abecedary, which he so called because it was intended to teach the elements of Christian perfection. There is no doubt as to the genuineness of the dialogues he reports, for the duchess asked him to commit what he had said to her to paper. Did Valdez, when doing so, complete any of his answers? It is very possible. In Herzog’s Encyclopædia, M. Bœhmer has given an extract from this dialogue, much longer than the limits of this history will permit us to do.
[915]. Abecedario espiritual fol. 26. On this point Valdez is quite in harmony with the reformers.
[916]. Ibid., fol. 27.
[917]. Abecedario espiritual, fols. 36, 37, 38.
[918]. Ibid., fols. 44, 45, 47, 50, 52, 53.
[919]. Abecedario espiritual, fols. 57, 58.
[920]. Ibid., fol. 68.
[921]. These Commentaries have recently been reprinted in Spain.
[922]. ‘Convictus quod in Italia, cum Victoria Colonna Marchionis Piscarii vidua et Julia Gonzaga, lectissimis alioquin feminis, de pravitate sectaria suspectis, amicitiam coluisset, tandem ad ignem damnatus.’—De Thou, ad annum 1567. Schelhorn, Amænitates Ecclesiasticæ, ii. p. 187.