The History of the Popes, Vol. 30

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Excerpt from The History of the Popes, Vol. 30: From the Close of the Middle Ages, Drawn From the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources, From the German Even one glance at the title page of the present volume suffices to show that this time the author strove to condense the vast material much more than had been his wont. When he had kept his seventieth birthday in 1924, he remarked that after this each year, as it came, would have to be viewed as a gift, as a kindly favour of Providence, which one should accept gratefully but on which one could not count. If many of the latter volumes had embraced the life of but one Pope, such fullness of treatment had been justified because there was question of climaxes in the story of the later papacy. Now, however, less important matter must be ruthlessly eschewed so as to make it possible to complete the history of the Popes, for up to the last, the great historian of the Roman Pontiffs cherished the hope of being able to complete what had been his life-work. A word of encouragement from Pius X., whom he held in highest reverence, gave him courage to undertake the seemingly impossible and he did his utmost to realize his noble ambition. Once again he strained his incomparable capacity for work to the utmost limit, from the mountain of material collected during fifty years of tireless toil, he omitted everything that would have led him too far. The widow of the deceased historian, Her Excellency Baroness Constance Pastor, has religiously taken up the literary inheritance and entrusted its publication to competent persons. Volume XIV. appears as it was found, in two sections (in the German original), the only thing missing being the introduction and in Chapter VI. of Book II. the section dealing with Alexander VII.'s patronage of learning together with some concluding remarks on the smaller churches of Rome, and the secular buildings erected by that Pope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.