Note 108 — Chapter IV · FROM EXILE TO SUPREMACY

See Muratori,e ad ann. 1478. Innocent VIII had lived so shamefully before he mounted the Romish throne that he had sixteen illegitimate children to make provision for. Yet on the papal throne he played the zealot against the Germans, whom he accused of magic, in his bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, etc., and also against the Hussites, whom he well-nigh exterminated.