Hutten Ulrich von. Epistolae obscurorum virorum

The Latin text with an English rendering, notes, and historical introd. by Francis Griffin Stokes. — London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. — lxxiii; 560 p.The Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (English: Letters of Obscure Men) was a celebrated collection of satirical Latin letters which appeared 1515–1519 in Hagenau, Germany. They support the German Humanist scholar Johann Reuchlin and they mock the doctrines and modes of living of the scholastics and monks, mainly by pretending to be letters from fanatic Christian theologians discussing whether all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian or not.