Bonaventura Vulcanius' draft of a poem about Spanish Inquisition: stylistic or ideological reasons for the corrections?

Abstract

In this article, a draft of “Protrepticon ad Belgas”, a Latin poem written by the humanist Bonaventura Vulcanius, is scholarly edited, translated and commented. In it, the author describes and criticises the Spanish Inquisition. The corrections made on the text draft allow us to speculate on the causes motivating the limae labor, whether these have been stylistic, metrical or also ideological.