Gasparo Contarini and His Friends

Abstract

The discovery of letters of friendship written by ‘young great men’ in their period of conflict and self-discovery may enable us at last to see the shaping of their lives, in youth as in maturity. The momentous decisions and public commitments of their maturity, long regarded by posterity as sudden and inexplicable, may now appear as the natural outcome of early impulses and influences. In the case of Martin Luther such an unlikely find would probably illuminate a stage in his development now considered as crucial but obscured by lack of reliable evidence.

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