Excerpt from Life and Writings of Jua¿n De Valde¿s, Otherwise Valdesso, Spanish Reformer in the Sixteenth Century

And if so little was truly known of this John Valdesso by his English translator, the Spaniards, his countrymen, who had seen him with their bodily eyes a century earlier, were scarcely wiser, for they viewed in him not one but two persons, and if some few of them escaped this illusion, and could have told us something about him, with accuracy, the fires Of the Inquisition dried up the ink of their pens with terror. As in Spain, so in Italy, where he lived and died at last, it was the same. Authors, who one after another record his name, all moved to curiosity about it, yet possessing little except this one book, can tell us scarcely more than his countrymen have done. His name, cast out by the bigots of his own nation, banned in Italy, and rejected amongst the dogmatic Switzers, found at length, a hundred years later, a quiet asylum in England.

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