Talk:John Bale
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The quote "What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!"
This is usually atributed to Pope Leo X. But here its origin is traced to John Bale's Pageant of the Popes.
For on a time when a cardinal Bembus did move a question out of the Gospel, the Pope gave him a very contemptuous answer saying: All ages can testify enough how profitable that fable of Christ hath been to us and our company.
Pageant of the Popes Page 179
The atribution to Pope X goes back at least to 1605 where I just now found it in the Epistle to the Reader of the english translation of La Primaudaye's The Second Part of the French Academie.
If this quote can be confirmed (if not its significance as the earliest source of the attribution to Leo X) then maybe it should be included. The Bernmeister (talk) 01:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
