The six volumes were completed on July 10, 1517, just four months before the death of the cardinal. Some six hundred copies of the complete work were published, paradoxically at the very time when the Spanish Inquisition was at its height. *
Poliglota tika izdota aptuveni sešsimt eksemplāros *, turklāt paradoksālā kārtā tas notika tieši tajā laikā, kad Spānijā kulmināciju bija sasniegusi inkvizīcijas darbība.