Excerpt from A General History of the Catholic Church: From the Commencement of the Christian Era Until the Present Time

I. General view of the seventh period - 2. State of the world at the death of Julius II. - 3. Election of Leo X. - 4. Reinstatement of the Cardinals Car Vajal and St. Severinus - 5. Reformatory canons of the Lateran Council. 6. Decree of the council concerning the press. - 7. Decree on the Manta-de piété - S. Decrees for the pacification of Christian princes, and against the errors of Pomponatius on the immortality of the soul.-9. Peace between Louis XII. And the Holy See - 10. Death of Louis XII. - 1 1. Accession of Francis 1. His policy. Policy of Leo X. - 12. Cardinal Matthew Schinner. Battle of Marignan. - l3. Treaty of peace between Leo X. And Francis I. 14. Question of the kingdom of Naples - 15. The Concordat of Leo X, between the Holy See and France - 16. Review of the concordal - 17. Last session of the seventh general council. - 18. League against France. Pm dence of Leo X. - l 9. Theologians. Cajetan. Adrian of Utrecht, etc. - 20. Linguistics. The exact sciences - 21. Historians. Machiavelli. 22. Paolo Giovio. Guicciardini.-23. Poets. Ariosto. Vida. Sannazaro. - 24. Michael Angelo. Raphael. - 25. Conspiracy among the cardinals against the life of the Holy Fatlier. - 26. Luther. The cause of his success.

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