of the Papacy--one authority says that he wished to marry--and sold it to his uncle John Gratian for one or two thousand pounds of gold. By this time there was a certain young Hildebrand studying in the Lateran School, and the story of his life will tell us the sequel of this extraordinary chapter of Papal history. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 178: Dr. Mann, iii., 285.] [Footnote 179: Inaccurate because, however many lovers Theodora and Marozia may have had, they were certainly not courtesans.] [Footnote 180: See Baronius, year 912, and Mansi, xviii., 314 and 316.] [Footnote 181: Barry's _Papal Monarchy_ (1902), pp. 146 and 150. For criticism of the tradition see F. Liverani's study of John X. in vol. ii. of his _Opere_ (1858) and P. Fedele's "Ricerche per la Storia da Roma e del Papato nel Secolo X." in the _Archivi della R. Società Romana di Storia Patria_ (vols. xxxiii. and following). Dr. Mann follows these critics in his chapters on Sergius and John (vol. iv.).] [Footnote 182: Published by E. Dümmler in his _Auxilius und Vulgarius_ (1866), pp. 139-146. Dr. Mann (iv., 139 and 141) thinks it incredible that if Theodora were a vicious woman any man should write thus; but two pages later he recollects that Vulgarius has accused Pope Sergius of murdering his two predecessors, and he advises us to place no reliance on the word of such a "wretched sycophant."] [Footnote 183: _De Causa Formosiana_, c. 14.] [Footnote 184: _Antapodosis_, ii., 48.] [Footnote 185: In the notes to his edition of the _Liber Pontificalis_.] [Footnote 186: C. 29.] [Footnote 187: _De Christi Triumphis apud Italiami_, xii., 7.] [Footnote 188: See a letter from him at Ravenna to them in Liverani, _Opere_, iv., 7.] [Footnote 189: _Præloquia_, v., 7.] [Footnote 190: _Ep._, ix.] [Footnote 191: Mansi, xviii., 263.] [Footnote 192: _Antapodosis_, iii., 43; _Chronicon_, c. 29.] [Footnote 193: Benedict merely records his death. Flodoard (_Annals_, year 929) says that "some attributed his death to violence, but the majority to grief." Liutprand (iii., 43) affirms that he was smothered with a pillow.] [Footnote 194: _Ep._, ii.] [Footnote 195: _Ep._, iv.] [Footnote 196: _Ep._, xiv.] [Footnote 197: Published by Liverani, iv., 76-79.] [Footnote 198: Flodoard, _Ecclesiæ Remensis Historia_, iv., 20.] [Footnote 199: _Dialogues_, bk. iii.] CHAPTER VIII HILDEBRAND