A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume 5Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - Church history This detailed study of the papacy during the Reformation was first published between 1882 and 1894. The author was an academic and an ordained Anglican. Having studied at Oxford and spent time in the parish of Embleton in Northumberland, he was appointed the first Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge, became Bishop of Peterborough and ended his career as Bishop of London. |
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Page 50 - ... was evidence only of the condition of the atmosphere. There is no real reason for attributing the death of Alexander VI. to other than natural causes. The Borgia have become legendary as types of unrestrained wickedness, and it is difficult to judge them fairly without seeming to palliate iniquity. 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...
Page 271 - with God's help,' undertook to answer these questions. Following the Aristotelian method he discusses divers opinions and exposes the weakness of each. He concludes that the question of the immortality of the soul...
Page 274 - Those who find in the revolt against the Papacy the beginnings of an era of free thought and free inquiry, take tolerance no account of such cases as those of Pomponazzi. Pompo- He was allowed to discuss with cynical frankness not merely outlying propositions, but the central ideas on which religious life was founded. He was held to be free from blame because he separated the region of philosophic speculation from the region of Christian belief, and was judged in the papal court with a judicial calmness...
Page 57 - ... with 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...
Page 190 - Italiano, serie i^a, xvi., pt. ii., 263: ' Fo ricordo con le lacrime agl' occhi e con gran dolore nel cuore come papa Giulio passo da questa vita presente, la cui vita quanto sia stata laudabile et onorevole...
Page 194 - ... entered upon the task as he would have entered upon a campaign, and achieved results far beyond the ambition of his most refined and accomplished predecessors. His treatment of individual artists was often harsh and niggardly, but of his dealings with art as a whole Bishop Creighton rightly declares : " he did not merely employ great artists, he impressed them with a sense of his own greatness, and called out all that was strongest and noblest in their 244 Venetian encroachments on the Papal...
Page 221 - 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...
Page 95 - ... venerable church in Christendom to make way for something new. The basilica of S. Peter's had been for ages the object of pilgrimages from every land. Outside, it gleamed with mosaics, of which the ship of Giotto is now the only survival ; inside, its pavement was a marvel of mosaic art ; its pillars dated from the days of Constantine ; its monuments told the history of the Roman Church for centuries.
Page 257 - Whilst we looked for the crown imperial,' wrote Pace, ' we might lose the crown of England, which is this day more esteemed than the Emperor's crown and all his Empire.
Page 332 - Et in quello di and& lo figlio dello Papa et lo signore Vergilio ad arrare la sposa in Napoli con molto trionfo et molta festa. Et in eodem die saputo chebbe lo Cardinale di Santo Pietro ad Vincula, lo quale stava in Ostia, et era in disgratia dello Papa, subito segretamente si messe in un brigantino sconosciutamente et lascio la fortezza d...