[1138] Some facts about him are to be found in Bapt. Mantuan. De Patientia, l. iii. cap. 13.
[1139] Bursellis, Ann. Bonon. in Murat. xxiii. col. 915.
[1140] How far these blasphemous utterances sometimes went, has been shown by Gieseler (Kirchengeschichte, ii. iv. § 154, anm.) who quotes several striking instances.
[1141] Voigt, Enea Silvio, iii. 581. It is not known what happened to the Bishop Petro of Aranda who (1500) denied the Divinity of Christ and the existence of Hell and Purgatory, and denounced indulgences as a device of the popes invented for their private advantage. For him, see Burchardi Diarium, ed. Leibnitz, p. 63 sqq.
[1142] Jov. Pontanus, De Fortuna, Opp. i. 792-921. Comp. Opp. ii. 286.
[1143] Æn. Sylvii, Opera, p. 611.
[1144] Poggius, De Miseriis Humanae Conditionis.
[1145] Caracciolo, De Varietate Fortunae, in Murat. xxii., one of the most valuable writings of a period rich in such works. On Fortune in public processions, see p. 421.
[1146] Leonis X. Vita Anonyma, in Roscoe, ed. Bossi, xii. p. 153.
[1147] Bursellis, Ann. Bonon. in Murat. xxiii. col. 909: ‘Monimentum hoc conditum a Joanne Bentivolo secundo patriae rectore, cui virtus et fortuna cuncta quæ optari possunt affatim praestiterunt.’ It is still not quite certain whether this inscription was outside, and visible to everybody, or, like another mentioned just before, hidden on one of the foundation stones. In the latter case, a fresh idea is involved. By this secret inscription, which perhaps only the chronicler knew of, Fortune is to be magically bound to the building.