FOOTNOTES:
[35] L'Esame ad gradus. The Dominicans so call the examination for the degree of Doctor of Theology.
[36] Alluding to the ceremony in the creation of a cardinal, in which the pope first shuts the cardinal's mouth and then opens it.
[37] Teoli: Life of Vincenzo Perreri. Rome, 1825; Naples, 1837.
[38] The translator of these pages was residing at Rome at the period of this man's apprehension, and was credibly informed that the statement of the cruelties; and atrocities he had practised towards a boy, an orphan nephew, were so appalling, as to draw tears from the eyes of Gregory XVI., then reigning Pontiff.