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Gregory XIII.

is praised for having spent more than 200,000 crowns a year on works of charity, and for having assigned the district of San Sisto (in the neighborhood of Trinita del Monte, one of the best quarters of the present city) to the beggars.[53] [Footnote 52: See Mocenigo, _op.

cit._ p.

35; Aretino's _Dialogo della Corte di Roma_; and the private history of the Farnesi.] [Footnote 53: Giov.

Carraro and Lor.


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