Excerpt from Divine Considerations Juan de Valdes, the author of this volume, and his twin brother Alfonso, were born about the beginning of the sixteenth century, the sons of Fernando de Valdes, hereditary Regidor of Cuenca in Castile. Before he became engrossed with religious subjects, Juan, according to Dr. Edward Boehmer, the latest and most authoritative of writers upon the brothers, had spent years absorbed in court-life, and in an insatiable perusal of chivalrous romances. Little information has, however, come down to us as to the movements of either brother before the appointment of Alfonso to a position in the suite of the Emperor Charles V., at whose coronation at Aix la Chapelle In 1520 he was present; attending him also the following year at Worms, where he saw, in the burning of Luther's books, not the end, but the beginning of a tragedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.