In time the critique had an immense effect.

Ulrich von Hutten published it in 1517, and in the same year an English translation was made.

In 1537 Luther turned it into German.
[Sidenote: Valla attacks the Pope] And if the legality of the pope's rule was so slight, what was its practical effect?
According to Valla, it was a "barbarous, overbearing, tyrannical, priestly domination." "What is it to you," he apostrophizes the pontiff, "if our republic is crushed?
You have crushed it.

If our temples have been pillaged?
You have pillaged them.

If our virgins and matrons have been violated?
You have done it.