[1] Nor are we here concerned with the question of Savonarola’s “sincerity.” On that head it may be noted that Perrens the Rationalist and Lucas the sympathetic and moderate Catholic are very much at one. [↑]
[2] Lucas, p. 69 note. Compare the references of Lucas and those of Villari (p. 317) for researches on the subject. [↑]
[3] Cp. Perrens, as cited, ii, 94. [↑]
[5] Refs. in De Potter, L’Esprit de l’Église, 1821, iv, 95–98. [↑]
[6] Philology of the Gospels, p. 43. [↑]
[7] Growth of the Gospels, p. 45. [↑]
[8] Professed prophecies, that is, not political calculations. [↑]
[9] The systematic deposition of ordure in the drawers of commodes in 1870, in beds and rooms and on piles of food in 1914, is a historical fact. As to the sack of Rome, Cantù’s account is: “Delle bolle papali stabbiano i cavalli” (Istoria degli Italiani, ed. 1876, ix, 372). [↑]