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Catholic Reformation. Gabriel Glickman. Pope Julius II (1443-1513). John Skelton, Colin Clout (1521). ‘The prelates ben so haut, They say, and loke so hy, As though they wolde fly Aboue the sterry skye. Laye men say indede How they take no hede Theyr sely shepe to fede’.
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Catholic Reformation Gabriel Glickman
John Skelton, Colin Clout (1521) ‘The prelates ben so haut, They say, and loke so hy, As though they wolde fly Aboue the sterry skye. Laye men say indede How they take no hede Theyr sely shepe to fede’
John Skelton, Colin Clout (1521) [On the bishops] ‘Some say ye syt in thrones, Lyke prynces aquilonis, And shryne your rotten bones With perles and precyous stones’ ‘No matyns at mydnyght, Boke and chalys gone quyte’
Domenico Fontana (1543-1607), ceiling for Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome.
Peter Paul Rubens, altarpiece in Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome (1606-08)
St Francois de Sales (1567-1622), Introduction to the Devout Life ‘as the firefly moves through the flames... Thevigorous and constant soul can find the springs of sweet piety in the midst of the brackish waters of the world’
Richard Verstegan, Theatre des cruautez des Hereticques de nostre temps (1587)