Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE FRIAR OF WITTENBERG

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

THE FRIAR OF WITTENBERG

BY

WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

AUTHOR OF “A FRIEND OF CÆSAR”
“GOD WILLS IT,” ETC.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1912

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1912,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1912.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

AT THE COURT OF HIS HOLINESS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A ROOM IN THE VATICAN 1

II. MARIANNA 14

III. THE FEAST AT THE VILLA FARNESINA 26

IV. THE JUDGMENT OF LEO DE’ MEDICI 38

BOOK I

THE AWAKENING

V. I COME TO SCHLOSS REGENSTEIN 49

VI. ILSA OF THE HARZ 59

VII. WHAT BEFELL AT SCHLOSS BLANKENBURG 73

VIII. I HEAR JOHN TETZEL 86

IX. I HEAR MARTIN LUTHER 98

X. THE HAMMER STROKES 114

XI. I COME TO MAINZ 125

XII. THE VOICE OF ITALY 131

XIII. THE CALL FROM THE NORTH 139

BOOK II

THE STRUGGLE

XIV. HOW I LEFT PALAESTRO 151

XV. WHAT I FOUND IN THE NORTH 170

XVI. THE GREAT WORD AT LEIPZIG 185

XVII. DR. LUTHER GIVES COURAGE 196

XVIII. I HEAR OF ILSA 207

XIX. I REVISIT THE HOLY CITY 217

XX. THE HOLY FATHER ORDAINS 227

XXI. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 241

XXII. THE FRIAR OF WITTENBERG ORDAINS 253

XXIII. I MEET ABBESS THECKLA 263

XXIV. I PLAY WITH FIRE 273

XXV. THE ROAD TO WORMS 284

XXVI. WE ENTER WORMS 292

BOOK III

THE VICTORY

XXVII. ’TWIXT GABRIEL AND LUCIFER 299

XXVIII. BEHOLD, HE PRAYETH 314

XXIX. THE WITNESS BEFORE CÆSAR 327

XXX. THE HAND OF FORLI 341

XXXI. THE OFFER OF CÆSAR 356

XXXII. I REFUSE CÆSAR 371

XXXIII. ILSA VICTRIX 388

XXXIV. THE DEED UNDER THE BEECHWOOD 406

XXXV. THE BRIDE OF WARTBURG 426

AFTERWORD 433

THE FRIAR OF WITTENBERG