“There have been a lot of attacks. The usual thing. Poems pinned up, sermons, open letters against me.” “Saying in terrible Latin that you’re from the swamps of Ferrara, you’re not a true prophet, you want the whole city to live like monks, you have the new French disease of the phallus, and furthermore you don’t understand Aristotle properly,” Silvestro adds. The brothers laugh, or groan. Girolamo is a little hurt by the swipe at his understanding of Aristotle.
