Fifteenth Century

NOTE. In the year 1400, Franciscus Petrarcha wrote powerfully against the Pope, saying, 1. That the pope was antichrist; 2. That his court was Babylon and the whore that sits upon many waters (of which we read in John's Revelation), indeed, the mother of all idolatry and whoredom; 3. That Rome was a school of errors, a temple of heresy, and a nest of treachery. But speaking the truth in this way, the writers say, he could find no shelter, but was persecuted and driven away by the pope. P. J. Twisck, Chron., page 750, column 1, compared with the twentieth letter of F. Petrarcha, and the poem composed on it; also, Phil. Marn. Tract, folio 213.