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Excerpt from The Life of Cesare Cardinal Baronius: Of the Roman Oratory
The object of the following pages is to present to the reader a life of Baronius, from a purely personal and individual point of iview, no attempt being made to study him critically as a historian, or even to pause on any of the vexed questions which may have been raised by his writings. With this object in view the materials have been drawn mainly from his correspondence with intimate friends, contained in the collection of his letters edited by Raymund Albericius (rome from his Life by the same writer, and that by G. Ricci (rome, and also from the accounts of his life at the Oratory, inci dentally made known to us by the biographers of St. Philip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
