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 1731, I transcribe — Argolicensis (Argos) in Peloponneso: * Thessalonicensis, Θεσσαλονίχηζ Πάσηζ θετταλίαζ, Thessalonicæ, in Macedonia (Saloniki) Metropolita. Philippi Reciputi S.J. Illyricum Sacrum, & promissum opus ''Urbani Godfrid. Sibbern'', Ecclesiastæ & Professoris Lips. de Thessalonicæ Antiquitatibus. Etiam Ancyrani locum tenebat tempore Andronici Palæologi. The asterisk signifies episcopates existing in 1731. Vincentius Durantes, or de Durantibus, appears in as Episcopus Thermulensis from 1539 to 1565; and Aegidius Falzetta, or Falcetta, as Episcopus Caprulensis, from 1542 to 1563, and therefore stand good as solid entities; both, indeed, attended the Council of Trent; but Busdragus seems to be an ens rationis.

I fear, therefore, the conclusion to which we must come is, that the production in question was one of those ingenious effusions for which Vergerio was eminently fitted, and to which he was highly provoked. It is, however, impossible to withstand the conviction, that, as a picture, the Consilium, and its later partner, have done no injustice whatever to the religion, the morality, the wisdom, and the honesty of Rome, in the times of Vergerio, or, since, to