"Mussato's poetry and letters are interconnected because not only did Mussato write some of his letters in verse(for example, Letters 4, 7, and 18), but he also defended poetry against Friar Giovanni of Mantua's attack ("Epistola" 18).Giovanni's claims on the danger of poetry to Christianity were rebuffed by Mussato who asserted that, like the Bible, poetry was inspired by God.