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speaks of him as the principal writer on Pius V. and recently
Premoli (Barnabiti, I., 332) describes his life as the best,
this is due to his better and more skilful arrangement of his
matter and to his good latinity. It added a great deal to
the popularity of Gabuzio's biography that the BoUandists
included only his account in the Acta Sanctorum, since it was
suited to that purpose as having more definitely the character
of a saint's life than that of Catena.^
All the later biographies of Pius V. have tended in that
direction. Without any pretence to absolute completeness,
we here given in chronological order the best known of these
works :
1. Archangelus Caraccia de Ripalta O. Pr., Brevis
enarratio gestorum S. P. Pii P. V ex processibus et probatis
authoribus digesta, Romae 1629. Substantially this is only
a reproduction of the " Epistolae '' mentioned on p. 62, n. i,
from the edition of Cologne, 1567. Equally insignificant is
the Vita Pii V. by Caraccia. publ. in 1615.
2. L. Jacobilli, Vite del SS. Pio V. etc., Todi, 1661.
3. P. Fatica, Vita del glor. P. Pio V, Reggio, 1664.
4. Agazio di Somma.^ Vita del S. P. S. Pio V, dedicated
to Pope Alexander VII. Original in the Chigi Library,
Rome, I-III-69 ; rnany copies, e.g. Rome, nell' Archivio
Papal Secret Archives, Miscell. Arm. XI, 60 ; Barberini
Library, 3 copies in Cod. LIV, 23, 24 e 37 ;
Corsini Library,
Cod. 39-C-8 ; National Library, Paris, 5571. A second copy
at Paris cited by Marsand, II., 179, who greatly over estimates
its worth, does not substantially contain anything new.
The original Itahan was not printed, it is found in a French
version in the work of Felibien, Vie de Pie V. par A. di
SoMMA, Paris, 1672 ; cf. Echard, Script. O. II., 220.
5. A. Bzovius, Pius V. Romanus Pontifex sive annalium
eccles. tomus ultimus 1566-1572, Romae, 1672.
6. Ambros. Ramding, Beatus Pius V P. M. delineatus,
Aug. Vindel., 1672.
7. A. M. Monti, Ristretto d. vita e miracoh del b. Pio V,
Bologna, 1672.
' Even before Gabutius a work was issued, which he h is quoted in one place,
by A. FuKNMAYOR, Vida y hechos de \in V., Madrid, 1595, which, however,
is almost entirely based upon Catena ; see JVJkndham, viii. : cf. 93.
' Tliere also exists by the same author a *discors(i della prefettura di Roma,
in Cod. X. V. 30, p. 247 seq. of the Casanitense Libivii-y, Rome, and in the
Barberini Library, LVI., 108. For Agazio di Somma cf. also Belloni, Seicento,
89, 149.