He is very well versed in letters: he knows Greek, Latin, and Italian.

He is very strong in the sciences, chiefly in theology.

The externals of his life are very proper and very suitable to his dignity, which could not be said of the other cardinals and prelates, whose habits are too scandalously irregular.

But his great defect is shameful cupidity, which would employ, to attain its ends, even criminal means, and likewise great duplicity, whence comes his habit of scarcely ever saying that which is.

There is worse behind.