Tuesday, August 9, 2022

True, steadfast, well-grounded, Christian and sincere reply to the shameless, calphurnic book of infamy and lies by the godless, accursed, execrable defamer, evil-working Barabbas, also whore-addicted Holophernes of Braunschweig, who calls himself Duke Heinrich the Younger (1541)

      Johann Friedrich I, Kurfürst von Sachsen [1503-1554].  . . . Warhafftige, bestendige, ergründete, christenliche vnd auffrichtige Verantwortung, wider des verstockten, gottlosen, vormaledeieten, verfluchten ehrenschenders, bösthetigen Barrabas, auch hurnsüchtigen Holofernes von Braunschweig : So sich Hertzog Heinrich den jüngern nennet, vnvorschempt, calphurnisch, Schand vnd LügenbuchWittemberg:  Georg Rhaw, 1541.

     Title (only) translated in Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther:  1517, printing, and the making of the Reformation (New York:  Penguin Press, 2015), 299-300.

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