Memoirs of the Council of Trent: Principally Derived from Manuscript and Unpublished Records, Namely, Histories, Diaries, Letters, and Other Documents, of the Leading Actors in That Assembly, with Plates (Classic Reprint)

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Italian cardinal; for even then a reader far from captiously rigid might, in many cases, demur.

It is not the object of the present more humble under taking professedly either to confirm or confute, to correct or supersede, the above mentioned, or any other inferior histo ries of the Tridentine Synod. Its Object is, to throw addi tional light upon a very important event in human and particularly ecclesiastical history, in any of the ways which have been stated, as the result may be, from sources, hitherto unpublished - sources, for the most part, Still in manuscript; of an authentic and important character the identical ones, indeed, i have no hesitation in believing, from which the papal historian drew a large proportion of his materials; although with a fidelity which no One can con scientiously pronounce to be placed above the reach of sus picion.

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