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history. Besides Laderchi,i only Brognoli has made much
use of original unpublished sources. It is true that Grente
claims to have made wide archival researches, but the un-
published sources which he quotes are so scanty as hardly to
deserve consideration.^ There thus remains still a rich
harvest in the archives/ from which to build up from the
original sources a strictly critical and historical account, in
which the figure of Pius V. will stand out more true to nature
and far more effectively than is the case with the usual
panegyrics.*
' A part of the original letters collected by Laderchi in the Barberini
Library, Rome ; see Corresp. dipL, I., xxix.
* Cf. my list in Histor. Jahrbuch, XXIX. (1919), 801 seq.
' Serrano has recently in Corresp. dipl., I., xv., shown how little the pontificate
of Pius V. has as yet been studied in the original sources. Balzani
(Sisto v., Genoa, 1913, 13) points out that so far no historian has done justice
to Pius V.
* With regard to this I must record that three years a^o I wrote " : It is
time that the pedantic period of the lives of the saints came to an end. They
do not stand in need of pious inventions ; they can bear the full light of historical
criticism, and moreover, cannot fail to draw advantage from it," (Ze^^
schrift fur kathol. Theol., 1898, 147.)