Note 288 — Front matter (continued 5)

Guicciardini's Storia d'Italia and Burchard's Diarium are the chief authorities, supplemented by the dispatches of the Italian ambassadors. There is a slight and somewhat antiquated biography by M.A.J. Dumesnil (Histoire de Jules II., 1873) and an abler study by M. Brosch (Papst Julius II., 1878). J.F. Loughlin has a candid account, chiefly based on Brosch, of his early career in The American Catholic Quarterly Review. Special treatises will be noticed in the course of the chapter, but there is little dispute about the facts I give. Full references will be found in the very ample, if somewhat lenient, study of Dr. Pastor (vi.), and in the works of Creighton, Gregorovius, and von Reumont.