Veronese successfully defended his Last Supper / Feast in the House of Levi painted for the refectory of SS Giovanni and Paolo in Venice before the Inquisition against charges of that it was presenting a religious, and therefore a political, threat to the Church. There were accusations that the painting contained the kind of 'scurrilità' that the German reformers used against the Church, and that Veronese had placed 'in ridicolo il più alta dei sacramenti cristiani'. The presence of armed Germans in the picture increased the threat. His answers affirmed his obedience to the Church without compromising his independence as a painter. The court accepted, and in some accounts even suggested, the change of title to give a different biblical reference for the painting. W orks, 24.187 gives a loose version in English of the proceedings of the Inquisition; the original is transcribed in Pignatti, and Pedrocco, Veronese, pp. 558-9.