[131] Lettere, vol. ii, p. 80.
[132] Sarpi's Life by Fra Fulgenzio, p. 64.
[133] Fra Fulgenzio's Vita di F. Paolo, p. 42. Venetian Dispatches in Mutinelli's Storia Arcana, vol. iii. p. 67.
[134] The treatise which Sarpi translated was Gerson's Considerations upon Papal Excommunications. Gerson's part in the Council of Constance will be remembered. See Creighton's History of the Papacy, vol. i. p. 211.
[135] Sarpi's correspondence abundantly proves how very grave was the peril of Papal Absolutism in his days. The tide had not begun to turn with force against the Jesuit doctrines of Papal Supremacy. See Ranke, vol. ii. pp. 4-12, on these doctrines and the counter-theories to which they gave rise. We must remember that the Papal power was now at the height of its ascension; and Sarpi can be excused for not having reckoned on the inevitable decline it suffered during the next century.
[136] Lettere, vol. i. p. 312.
[137] Sarpi's Letters, vol. ii. pp. 179, 284.
[138] Ibid. pp. 100-102.
[139] Bianchi Giovini, Vita di Fra P. Sarpi, vol. ii. p. 49.
[140] A.G. Campbell's Life of Sarpi, p. 174.