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of Byzantium, having entered into discussions and marveled at the emperor's intelligence, wrote letters both to Pope Clement and to the Dauphin who had sent him, which we have added to the narrative just as they were. The one to the pope, then, was thus. «Let all the people of the Roman dominion rejoice, and on account of the victory of so great an emperor let the whole world be glad. For a hallowed day has dawned for all Christians on the third of February, on which indeed God sent forth his angel to prepare his way before him and with his own most brilliant light to drive far away the darkness of battle, bringing peace like a branch of a green olive tree. For this is the king of peace, the second Solomon, whose face all creation desires to see. For behold, that the Lord might show that not in the strength of a horse, not in the power of man, but in the power of God has this trophy come from the most high and most victorious emperor and autocrat lord John Kantakouzenos, he opened the treasures of his power, pouring upon him the gifts of his own graces, namely this queen of cities, that of Constantine, I mean, and giving him the whole ki 3.14 ngdom by his divine power with the might of arms and outstretched arm, so that in him might more clearly appear the ever-flowing rivers of his graces and mercy. For he is the one, of whom it is written, that he was able to transgress, and did not transgress, and to do evil, and did not do it; but rather, following Christ, he returned good for evil, remembering mercy and forgetting iniquity. Who indeed has become a good soldier like Stephen who first suffered, praying for his persecutors who were stoning him, and having said, «do not hold against them,» «Lord, this sin; for they do not know what they have done.» Never from eternity has it been heard that so great a virtue of a man has existed, neither in emperor Octavian, nor Theodosius, nor indeed Caesar Augustus, that to those whom he was able to strike to the ground with the power of arms, to them he should give his own good mercy, forgetting all the evils against him. Therefore rejoice, most holy lord, at this so fortunate, so most victorious entry, both bloodless and without loss for the Christian people. And again rejoice, because the truth has been shown through truth. For the truth of Christ has shown the truth of this innocent emperor in that truth and mercy met him and peace and justice kissed. I indeed am persuaded this to be rather for the peace and 3.15 stability of the entire Christian people and for the advancement of the trophy against the enemies of the cross, just as no small harm was wrought for the emperors of Romania by the discord that has grown for a very long time. Therefore if any wicked deeds have been reported to your holiness against the aforesaid most serene emperor and autocrat of the Romans, lord John Kantakouzenos, who is also now father of the most serene emperor and autocrat of the Romans, lord John Palaiologos, let them in no way be accepted or believed in any way. For I think that in this your holiness will arrange these things well from these aforesaid lords and emperors, either through ambassadors, or through letters more truthfully and more clearly.» Such things then Bartholomew wrote to Pope Clement VI about the emperors. But to Imbert, Dauphin de Viennois, from whom he had come as an ambassador to the Empress Anna, thus. «Let all the people of the faithful shout gladly; let the choir of the Christian faith sing psalms; let manifest feasts be renewed in the sacred and holy churches; let the psalmodies resound on high; let the instruments of the monks strike the air, and let them be on the mouths of all, and let these gracious festivals run through all the surrounding region, so that the cry of those rejoicing may not 3.16 only from

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