172/175 To what depths are we destined to fall in the future ?' (_Lettere_, vol.i.p. 281). This final question was justified by the event; for, after the Borghesi, came the Ludovisi and Barberini, whose accumulations equalled, if they did not surpass, those of any antecedent Papal families.] [Footnote 76: The details may be examined in Ranke, vol.ii. pp. He describes the pleasure which this Pope took on one day of each week in washing his hands in the gold of the Datatario and the Camera (vol.i.p. |