The golden days of the renaissance in Rome, from the pontificate of Julius II to that of Paul III (1906)
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 258
the peninsulain the time of Paul III, and which was hailed with joy byso many illustrious cardinals, bishops, prelates, and by theintellectual portion of the aristocracy! The Inquisitors VITTOIilA COLONNA 211 believed their victims to be conspiring- for the overthrow ofthe Catholic Church, while… … Cardinal Pole Reformation, were, so to speak, more orthodox than theCuria itself, and that the reforms they demanded did not per-tain to dogma or creed, but only to morals and discipline.The fact is, that in such matters it was difficult then, as it isnow, to keep an even mind and to judge of men…
