The witch-burning craze continued unabated through the sixteenth century and only lessened toward the middle of the seventeenth. Estimates of the dead do not start below fifty thousand. The Malleus figured prominently; editions rolled off the presses. Sylvester Prierias (noted in the next chapter in connection with probabilism in moral theology) was also an inquisitor in Lombardy and was one of the first to quote the Malleus with approval.