Another posthumous account is that of Johannes Manlius, drawing on notes by Melanchthon, in his "Locorum communium collectanea" dating to 1562. According to Manlius, "Johannes Faustus" was a personal acquaintance of Melanchthon's and had studied in Kraków. Manlius' account is already suffused with legendary elements, and cannot be taken at face value as a historical source. Manlius recounts that Faust had boasted that the victories of the German emperor in Italy were due to his magical intervention. In Venice, he allegedly attempted to fly, but was thrown to the ground by the devil. Johannes Wier in "de prestigiis daemonum" (1568) recounts that Faustus had been arrested in Batenburg because he had recommended that the local chaplain called Dorstenius should use arsenic to get rid of his stubble. Dorstenius smeared his face with the poison, upon which he lost not only his beard but also much of his skin, an anecdote Wier says he heard from the victim himself. in 1602 still claims to have heard tales of Faust directly from people who had met him in person, but from the publication of the 1587 "Faustbuch", it becomes impossible to separate historical anecdotes from rumour and legend.