If we may trust them as accurate, it will appear by a comparison of them with the details furnished by Ranke, that Gregory's successors treated their relatives with greater generosity.[76] Sixtus V.enriched the Cardinal Montalto with an ecclesiastical income of 100,000 scudi.

Clement VIII.
bestowed on two nephews--one Cardinal, the other layman--revenues of about 60,000 apiece in 1599.

He is computed to have hoarded altogether for his family a round sum of 1,000,000 scudi.

Paul V.was believed to have given to his Borghese relatives nearly 700,000 scudi in cash, 24,600 scudi in funds, and 268,000 in the worth of offices.[77] The Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Gregory XV., had a reputed income of 200,000 scudi; and the Ludovisi family obtained 800,000 in _luoghi di monte_ or funds.

Three nephews of Urban VIII., the brothers Barberini, were said to have enjoyed joint revenues amounting to half a million scudi, and their total gains from the pontificate touched the enormous sum of 105,000,000.