Note 255 — Front matter (continued 4)

For the letters see Lettres de Jean XXII. (2 vols., 1908 and 1912), edited by Arnold Fayen: a selection of 3653 letters, generally business notes of little importance. Various short lives of John are given in Baluze's Vitæ Paparum Avenionensium, vol. ii., and there are censorious allusions to him in G. Villani's Historie Florentine: a contemporary but biassed work. Bertrandy's Recherches sur l'origine, l'élection, et le couronnement de Jean XXII. (1854) is valuable for his early years, as well as Dr. J. Asal's Die Wahl Johann's XXII. (1910). V. Verlaque's Jean XXII. (1883), is foolishly partisan, and declares John "one of the greatest successors of St. Peter." Sectional studies will be noticed in the course of the chapter.