A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, 第 5 巻

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1911
 

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50 ページ - Yet justice demands a consideration how far they represented the tendencies of their age, and how far they went beyond them. The secularised Papacy and the immoral politics of Europe can excite nothing but disgust ; but the secularisation of the Papacy was begun by Sixtus IV., was as profound under Innocent VIII. as under Alexander VI., and was not much mended under Julius II. and Leo X. Political perfidy was universal in Italy ; and Louis XII. and Ferdinand of Aragon were as perfidious as the Pope....
57 ページ - ... an air of calm detachment amid the recklessness, the brutality, the fanaticism, the cynicism, the lasciviousness, of those Renaissance spirits. 'In his private life', Creighton says of Alexander VI, 'it is sufficiently clear that he was at little pains to repress a strongly sensual nature. . . . We may hesitate to believe the worst charges brought against him; but the evidence is too strong to enable us to admit that even after his accession to the papal office he discontinued the irregularities...
221 ページ - So wrote Ficino, and came forward with his offering of a misty effort to set forth the image of Plato as closely resembling the truth of Christ ; but his philosophic miracle did not work conviction, his system did not reduce all gainsayers to silence. The question of the immortality of the soul continued to be openly disputed in the schools of Italy, and few were shocked by the discussion. We cannot feel surprised that the theologians in the Council Decree of determined to make a protest against...

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