Cochlaeus, Johannes (1479-1552) Joannis Calvini In Acta Synodi Tridentinae Censura & eiusdem Brevis Confutatio, circa duas Praecipue Calumnias.
Mainz: Franciscus Behem, 1548.
Octavo, bound in modern half parchment, boards covered with old printed sheets from an early book, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
"Johannes Cochlaeus stands among the prominent members of the Catholic reaction to the Reformation during its first three decades. His work serves as valuable evidence for scholars of the division of western Christianity that took place in the sixteenth century. Two qualities give him a special place among the early Catholic respondents to Protestantism: the volume of his work and the rhetorical ferocity of his reaction to the beginnings of Protestantism. He was the most prolific and most acerbic of the Catholic polemicists, and both of these qualities in tandem give him a historical importance that is only now being recognized." (Keen, Ralph, 'Johannes Cochlaeus: an introduction to his life and work', in Elizabeth Vandiver (ed.), Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther (Manchester, 2003; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 19 July 2012), https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719061042.003.0004, accessed 15 Feb. 2023.)
