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English[en]
3. Following his example, many of you have energetically used these same weapons against your educated enemies by continually studying all the finest sciences and enthusiastically cultivating the liberal arts in order to defend the honor of religion. You were sustained in this by the desire and approval of the popes whose constant preoccupation has always been to preserve the ancient majesty of the arts and to promote the constant progress of culture.
Latin[la]
Cuius praeclara exempla sequuti multi etiam de vestra gente impigri homines iisdemque usi armis contra genus hostium minime rude, nunquam destiterunt ad religionis praesidium ac dignitatem, nobilissimas quasque disciplinas tueri, omnem honestarum artium cultum incenso animo persequi, libentibus ac probantibus Romanis Pontificibus, quibus solertissima semper cura fuit ut litterarum staret antiqua maiestas, et humanitas omnis nova in dies incrementa susciperet.