That of Laibach possesses an Italian and a Croat version.

Cantu, _Gli Eretici_, vol.i.p.

360.] It does not fall within the province of this chapter to write an account of what has, not very appropriately, been called the Reformation in Italy.

My purpose in the present book is, not to follow the fortunes of Protestantism, but to trace the sequel of the Renaissance, the merging of its impulse in new phases of European development.

I shall therefore content myself with pointing out that at the opening of Paul III.'s reign, there was widely diffused throughout the chief Italian cities a novel spirit of religious earnestness and enthusiasm, which as yet had taken no determinate direction.