§.II: Tetzel sold pardons under Wimpina in our own Viadrina — Luther posted theses at Wittenberg
§. II. Tetzel grew wilder still in our own Viadrina, selling under Conrad Wimpina's shield — Wimpina being the Academy's first Rector.
He hawked his wares and praised them once laid out: pay even ten shillings and receive absolution from any crime; drop a coin in the chest and souls leave Purgatory at once; buy pardon even if, by impossibles, you had violated God's Mother (Luther's Letter to Archbishop Albert of Brandenburg of Mainz, Jena Latin Tom. I, fol. 2).
That fury only hardened Luther's counterblow: at Wittenberg he had his Theses against the foul trade nailed to the church doors.
Latin
§. II.
Tezelius quò efferatiùs, in hac ipsâ Viadrinâ nostrâ, sub umbone primi Academiae Rectoris Conradi Wimpinae, merces suas & venùm exponebat, & expositas commendabat, (absolutionem unicuique à scelere quovis pollicitus, qui vel decem solidos solvisset, & animarum ex Purgatorio Liberationem, simul ac contributio in Cistam conjiceretur, quin veniae impetrationem, etiamsi, per impossibilia, ipsam Dei Matrem violasset, referente Luthero in Epist. ad Archiepiscopum Moguntinum Albertum Brandenburgicum, Tom. I. Jenen. Latino, fol. 2.;) Eò animosiùs Luthero oppugnabatur, Wittenbergae ad valvas Templi, Theses suas contra foedam Indulgentiarum nundinationem affigendas curante.