 "De calamitatibus temporum" was widely reprinted in the early sixteenth century.A three-book attack on the waywardness of the times, the poem includes a passage on Papal corruption that Martin Luther used prominently in "Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil", his last great polemic directed against the Curia.Mantuan's "Parthenice Mariana" initiated a series of seven hagiographic epic poems in which he celebrated in epic language the lives of Mary as well as Catherine of Alexandria and other Roman Catholic saints.