Cosimo Classics History of the popes, volume ii: their church and state, paperback/leopold von ranke

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The history of the renovated popedom would be but imperfectly understood, did we limit our attention to its centre only.

Its essential importance is best perceived by observing its operations on the world in general.

--Leopold von Ranke, Volume II, Book V--Counter-Reformation, 1836 History of the Popes: Their Church and State in three volumes, by German historian Leopold von Ranke, was first published in German in 1834-36, and translated into English by E.

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