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A forlorn façade The church of the Medici Cosimo's parents' tomb Donatello's cantoria and pulpits Brunelleschi's sacristy Donatello again The palace of the dead Grand Dukes Costly intarsia Michelangelo's sacristy A weary Titan's life The victim of capricious pontiffs The Medici tombs Mementi mori The Casa Buonarroti Brunelleschi's cloisters A model library.
Several of the public priests too died this year: Lucius Cornelius Lentulus, chief pontiff, Caius Papirius Maso, son of Caius, a pontiff, Publius Furius Philo, an augur, and Caius Papirius Maso, son of Lucius, a decemvir for the superintendence of sacred rites. In lieu of Lentulus, Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, in lieu of Papirius Cnaeius, Servilius Caepio, were created pontiffs.
The monk made extraordinary remarks. Explaining the life of the Christians in the earliest eras of Christianity, he said: "In this century the habits of the pontiffs were so lax that the Pope had to go out accompanied by two persons to insure his modest behaviour." "Oh, oh!" said a young Frenchman, in a tone of vexation. "Ah! C'est L'histoire," replied the monk.
Then, too, what proof of his singular excellence could be wished for, more convincing and more valid, than the eagerness with which the sovereigns of the world contended for him? Beside four pontiffs, Julius, Leo, Clement, and Paul, the Grand Turk, father of the present Sultan, sent certain Franciscans with letters begging him to come and reside at his court.
It was the energy and resolution of the Pontiffs which resisted the heresies of the East, and preserved to the Christian religion that plainness and intelligibility, without which it would never have made a way to the rude understanding and simple hearts of the barbarians from the North.
It is not eloquence, nor fairness, nor obstinacy, but a certain proportion of all these that I love to encounter in my amicable adversaries. They must not be pontiffs holding doctrine, but huntsmen questing after elements of truth. Neither must they be boys to be instructed, but fellow-students with whom I may argue on equal terms." From Mr.
But what greater and clearer sign can we ever have of the excellence of this man than the contention of the Princes of the world for him? From the four Pontiffs, Julius, Leo, Clement, and Paul, to the Grand Turk, father of him who to-day holds the Empire.
"Your Majesty," he said, "I doubt whether that will confute Brinnaria's enemies or even convince the majority of the Pontiffs." "What does it signify?" the Emperor demanded, "whether anybody else is convinced, if I am satisfied?" "Nothing whatever, your Majesty," said Lutorius, "if you take that view of the matter." "Perhaps," Commodus admitted, "there may be something in your suggestion.
During the period following the fall of the Roman Empire of the West there had been evolved the temporal power of the Roman Bishop. It had many vicissitudes. Sometimes, as in the days of St. Leo and St. Gregory, it based its claims upon noble assertions of right and justice, and sometimes, as in the hands of pontiffs like Innocent VIII. and Paul V., it sought to force its way by fanaticism.
It is more just not to consider vows of this kind broken unless they are violated out of contempt and obstinate malice. It is otherwise in things that are vowed to God. In vows made to God, I see dispensation granted by the pontiffs, but I shall never be persuaded that he is safe to whom such a dispensation is granted.
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