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xil Introduction to flight. They retired to Florence, but returned in time to see the triumphant entry of Pope Julius II. Erasmus was always a preacher of peace; convinced of the wrongfulness of war, he inveighed against it with all his eloquence; the spectacle of the Head of the Church conducting a campaign and plunging men into misery filled him with horror. In the ‘Moria’, still more in the ‘ Julius Exclusus ’, he spoke his indignation without respect of persons. While at Bologna Erasmus was busied with his collection of ‘ Adages’. These had been first printed during his Paris years, but now the little book was worked up into a big book, and Erasmus went to Venice to see the new edition published. It was produced by Aldus, the famous printer, in whose family Erasmus spent a year of strenuous work. When it ended, he left Venice to go south ; and at Siena joined Alexander Stewart, the young Archbishop of St. Andrews, who later fell with his father, James IV, at Flodden. With this pupil Erasmus visited Rome and Naples, enjoying with equal keenness the interest of classic sites or the discussion of modern politics with the high officials of the Curia. It
