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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 269 — Chapter X · THE PAPACY AND ITS DANGERS.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

Besides which it is said (Paul. Lang. Chronicon Cilicense) to have produced not less than 500,000 gold florins; the order of the Franciscans alone, whose general was made a cardinal, paid 30,000. For a notice of the various sums paid, see Sanuto, xxiv. fol. 227; for the whole subject see Gregorovius, viii. 214 sqq.

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