Though his qaṣīdahs, mainly eulogies, are considered to be extremely tasteful and proper, his satiric works are held to be calumnious and abusive.
The Vatican also denounced as "false and calumnious" the charge that as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Benedict had been responsible for a policy of covering up cases of sexual abuse, declaring that his handling of the cases showed "wisdom and firmness".
"It addresses a very corrosive and calumnious slur against any young Palestinian who would be a political activist on the West Bank", who would be called a "terrorist" because of his activism.
While Lobo himself remains a somewhat distant character, Rathbone provides a vivid corrective to the "calumnious revolutionary narrative that diminishes Cuba's past".
From the very beginning, the far right assailed this president with calumnious attacks.
Charles J. Scicluna, the director of a tribunal inside the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal arm, dismissed as "false and calumnious" accusations that Benedict covered up abuse cases when he oversaw investigations for four years as prefect of that congregation before becoming pope.
Accusing the news media of calumnious attacks is a routine strategy in Italy, but it has not gone over well internationally.
"This changes nothing as regards either my innocence or the calumnious character of the accusations launched against me," he continued, "and I will now devote all my energy to proving this".
Rathbone incorporates Lobo's own diaries and papers with material from the family of the author's own mother, a childhood friend of Lobo's daughter, to create a "vivid corrective" to what the author describes as a "calumnious revolutionary narrative that diminishes Cuba's past".
A protégé of former President Jacques Chirac and longstanding political rival of Mr. Sarkozy, Mr. Villepin has denied all charges of "complicity in calumnious denunciations".
