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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XLIX: Conquest Of Italy By The Franks
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Yet this incomparable poem has been approved by a bull of Leo X.] [Footnote 75: See Baronius, A.D.324, No.

117-123, A.D.1191, No.

51, &c.

The cardinal wishes to suppose that Rome was offered by Constantine, and refused by Silvester.

The act of donation he considers strangely enough, as a forgery of the Greeks.] [Footnote 76: Baronius n'en dit guerres contre; encore en a-t'il trop dit, et l'on vouloit sans moi, (Cardinal du Perron,) qui l'empechai, censurer cette partie de son histoire.


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