[126] The Catholic World, January, 1875, p. 487.
[127] Childishness.
[128] The Chevalier Gaetano Moroni is a gentleman of the bedchamber to the present Pope. His farraginous work in one hundred and three volumes, is an inexhaustible source of ecclesiastical erudition; but as Niebuhr said of Cancellieri’s writings, these large octavos contain some things that are important, many things that are useful, and everything that is superfluous.
[129] Relazione della corte di Roma. The best edition is that published at Rome in 1774, with notes by the learned Jesuit, F. A. Zaccaria.
[130] This strange proceeding of the belted custodian of the conclave is confirmed by a document which was issued by the cardinals on the 8th of June—“In palatio discooperto episcopatus Viterbiensis” (Macri, Hierolexicon).
[131] Our English distinction of Very, Right, and Most Reverend is unknown in good Latin. Admodum Reverendus is barbarous and repudiated by the stylus curiæ.
[132] Betrayed his uncle Paul IV., was tried by eight of his peers and condemned to death.
[133] Abused the confidence of Benedict XIII.; condemned by Clement XII. to a fine of two hundred thousand crowns, to loss of all dignities, and ten years’ imprisonment.
[134] He purged himself and was reinstated in the cardinalate; seems to have been more of a dupe than a rogue.
[135] Deprived of his dignity by Pius VI. on Sept. 21, 1791, for taking the schismatical civil oath of the French clergy.