Content area
Full Text
Iulius exclusus e coelis: Motive und Tendenzen gallikanischer und bibelhumanistischer Papstkritik im Umfeld des Erasmus. By Peter Fabisch. [Reformationsgeschichtliche Stuthen und Texte, Band 152.] (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2008. Pp. viii, 582. euro65,00. ISBN 978-3-402-1 1577-0.)
The question of who wrote Julius Excluded from Heaven (1513 or 1514) has, like many historical questions, no simple answer and a long history of dispute. Peter Fabisch takes up the matter anew to refute the contention, especially prevalent among Anglo-American scholars, that Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote it. Rather, it was the work of one whose politics were clearly Gallican; namely, the Venetian humanist in the court of Louis XII, Fausto Andreiini. By reattributing authorship to Andrelini, Fabisch ftilsomely defends the findings of Carl Stange's Erasmus und Julius IL, eine Legende (Berlin, 1937).
Part 1 of Fabisch's study takes up the indications of Andrelini's authorship. Among them is a letter that Andrelini wrote c. 1510 to France's Queen Anne containing the chief complaints of...