Ulrich Von Hutten Imperial Poet and Orator: The Great Knightly Reformer of the 16th Century (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Ulrich von Hutten might have attained to the high est dignities in church or state, if he could have been content to follow the old paths, and accept the established order of things. But he preferred to be a champion and a martyr in the cause of civil and religious liberty. When a mere lad, he fled from the cloister of Fulda, in order to escape being compelled to embrace a monastic life, as he thought that, in some other career, he could better serve God and his country. Afterwards, he gave up to his family the estate which fell to him, as eldest son, on his father's death, that they might not be involved in the proscription and ruin which he was about to incur by the publication of the Trials Romana, - that tremendous satire upon the mani fold corruptions of Rome, beside whose withering sarcasm and terrible invective, the attacks of About.

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Sir James Stephen remarks, in one of his admirable Essays on Ecclesiastical Biography, that 'English literature is singularly defective in whatever relates to the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland, and to the lives of the great men by whom it was accomplished; and to none of these great men does this observation more forcibly apply than to Ulrich von Hutten, of whose varied and eventful life, and powerful influence both upon the revival of letters and the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, no account is to be found in our language, beyond the brief and imperfect notices afforded by magazine, articles and biographical dictionaries. Yet scarcely any career in that stirring century is more diversified by adventures, or more surrounded by strong elements of dramatic interest.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.