[179] Inaccurate because, however many lovers Theodora and Marozia may have had, they were certainly not courtesans.
[180] See Baronius, year 912, and Mansi, xviii., 314 and 316.
[181] Barry's Papal Monarchy (1902), pp. 146 and 150. For criticism of the tradition see F. Liverani's study of John X. in vol. ii. of his Opere (1858) and P. Fedele's "Ricerche per la Storia da Roma e del Papato nel Secolo X." in the Archivi della R. Società Romana di Storia Patria (vols. xxxiii. and following). Dr. Mann follows these critics in his chapters on Sergius and John (vol. iv.).
[182] Published by E. Dümmler in his Auxilius und Vulgarius (1866), pp. 139-146. Dr. Mann (iv., 139 and 141) thinks it incredible that if Theodora were a vicious woman any man should write thus; but two pages later he recollects that Vulgarius has accused Pope Sergius of murdering his two predecessors, and he advises us to place no reliance on the word of such a "wretched sycophant."
[183] De Causa Formosiana, c. 14.
[184] Antapodosis, ii., 48.
[185] In the notes to his edition of the Liber Pontificalis.
[186] C. 29.
[187] De Christi Triumphis apud Italiami, xii., 7.
[188] See a letter from him at Ravenna to them in Liverani, Opere, iv., 7.