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 26
ond the Alps did not know aboutthe Jubilee until it was too late in the year to undertake theperilous journey to Rome. At all events, the clergy, as wellas the lay population, saw at once what enormous advan-tages, moral and material, could be obtained from the insti-tution, and Pope Clement VI was… … BONIFACE VIII READING THE BULL ANTIQUORUM FROMTHE LOGGIA OF THE LATERAN i THE CITY 7 the excessive length of the interval, two generations at leastwould be deprived of the privilege of the plenary remissionof their sins at the grave of the apostles. Clement VI, onlytoo glad to win from the Romans…
