Supplemental  Research  1

 

Contents

 

 

1.

Popes

6-6

 

 

 

 

 

2.

Personalities

7-7

 

 

 

 

 

3.

"What profit has not that Fable of Christ brought us!"

 

"LET US ENJOY THE PAPACY SINCE GOD HAS GIVEN IT TO US"

8-19

 

 

 

 

 

4.

Forgery in Christianity, 1930  (Wheless)

20-20

 

 

 

 

 

5.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

21-35

 

 

 

 

 

6.

History of the Christian Church  (Schaff)

36-38

 

 

 

 

 

7.

The Diegesis, 1829  (Taylor)

39-42

 

 

 

 

 

8.

History of the Christian Church  (Schaff)

43-47

 

 

 

 

 

9.

Renaissance  (Burckhardt)

48-52

 

 

 

 

 

10.

Renaissance  (Symonds)

53-61

 

 

 

 

 

11.

John Edwin Sandys

62-62

 

 

 

 

 

12.

The Cambridge Modern History

63-63

 

 

 

 

 

13.

Renaissance  (Ferguson)

64-65

 

 

 

 

 

14.

Mysteriously Meant  (Allen)

66-68

 

 

 

 

 

15.

www.christianism.com 

69-73

 

 

 

 

 

16.

The History of England  (Hume)

74-75

 

 

 

 

 

17.

Pope Alexander VI and His Court  (Burchardus)

76-77

 

 

 

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18.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

78-79

 

 

 

19.

The Life…of Leo the Tenth  (Roscoe)

80-93

 

 

 

20.

The History of the Popes  (von Ranke)

94-105

 

 

 

21.

The History of the Popes  (Pastor)

106-120

 

 

 

22.

Jacopo Sadoleto  (Douglas)

121-126

 

 

 

23.

Crises in the History of the Papacy  (McCabe)

127-130

 

 

 

24.

A Rationalist Encyclopaedia  (McCabe)

131-132

 

 

 

25.

Catholic Encyclopedia

133-133

 

 

 

26.

The Pope's Elephant  (Bedini)

134-134

 

 

 

27.

Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy

135-135

 

 

 

28.

The Bad Popes  (Chamberlin)

136-138

 

 

 

29.

Vicars of Christ  (de Rosa)

139-148

 

 

 

30.

The Deaths of the Popes  (Reardon)

149-151

 

 

 

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Popes:

[reigns]

 

 

 

Innocent III

1198–1216

 

 

 

Paul II

 

1464–71

Sixtus IV

 

1471–84

Innocent VIII

 

1484–92

Alexander VI

 

1492–1503

Pius III

 

1503

Julius II

1503–13

 

 

  Leo X                  1513–21 [1475 – 1521]          [Luther 1483 – 1546]

 

 

Adrian VI

 

1522–23

Clement VII

 

1523–34

Paul III

 

1534–49

Julius III

 

1550–55

 

[Encyc. Brit., v. 9, c2005, 123].

 

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Personalities:

lifespans

 

 

 

 

Jacopo Sannazaro

1458 – 1530

 

 

Erasmus

1466 – 1536

 

 

Pietro Bembo

1470 – 1547

 

 

Leo X

1475 – 1521

 

 

Jacopo Sadoleto

1477 – 1547

 

 

Martin Luther

1483 – 1546

 

 

Ulrich von Hutten

1488 – 1523

 

 

John Bale

1495 – 1563

 

 

Michel de Montaigne

1533 – 1592

 

 

Philippe du Plessis

1549 – 1623

 

 

Pierre Bayle

1647 – 1706

 

 

Johann von Mosheim

1694 – 1755

 

 

A few associations:

 

John Bale mentions Sannazaro [see 167, 164].

 

Du Plessis references Sannazaro [see 186, 187, 189, 190].

 

Bayle references du Plessis [see 308, 309]. 

 

Mosheim references du Plessis, and Bayle [see 317]. 

 

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1.  My results, regarding the statement (from James Patrick Holding): 

 

'"What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!"

 

Pope Leo X.' : 

 

 

COMMENT (LS):  I will take a word from John Addington Symonds (54-55), and, The Cambridge Modern History (63), regarding Cosimo de' Medici, Pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, and state:  "ATTRIBUTED" to LEO X.

 

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2.   Of much interest (from James Patrick Holding):  '

 

●    When did Leo make this statement (the year is enough)?

 

●    To whom did Leo make it, and who heard it?

 

●    What was the context that prompted Leo to make this statement?

 

●    In what document did those who heard it, report it?

 

●    What reaction