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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Elevation of Scipio de Ricci to the Bishopric of Pistoia and Prato?Discontent of the Pope at the Ecclesiastical Reforms of the Grand Duke Leopold.?General view of the differences between the Civil and Spiritual Government of Tuscany previous to the accession of Leopold.?The Senator Rucellai? His labours to free Tuscany from the despotism of the Court of Rome.?His Memoir on the famous Bull In Ccena Domini. The destiny of Ricci was changed by an event which took place at this time, ?the death of Ippolite, Bishop of Pistoia. He died on the 22d of March, 1780. Ricci had no desire to undertake the labours of the Episcopal office which it was wished that he should accept, but he was in a manner forced to do so by his friends. He was received very flatteringly by the Pope, who, however, could not avoid repeating frequently, Ah ! your Grand Duke will have to render an account to God, for so many of his actions which are hurtful to the Church. Ricci replied, that he hoped he should always enjoy from the Duke full protection in favour of religion, and that he didnot believe him capable of doing any thing ever so slight against the interests of the Catholic Church. But the Pope would not be persuaded, and added in a grave tone, You are young, but in time you will see it! and with these words he dismissed him. Before we proceed to the very curious and interesting details of the ecclesiastical abuses which Ricci was the great instrument in detecting, and of the reforms which he laboured to establish, in opposition to the Court of Rome, amongst a corrupt and depraved priesthood, it may assist the reader in the right understanding of the principal object of these Memoirs, to collect at this point, into one view, the scattered materials for the History of the Ecclesi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217863568
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217863566
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr

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