[187] This declaration was made in the following florid terms. “Hæc sancta Synodus necessitates Christianæ religionis sedulâ meditatione recogitans, maturâ et digestâ deliberatione decernit; ad hæc tria, eo, a quo cuncta bona procedunt, auctore Deo, toto solicitudinis studio operam dare, Primo, ut omnium hæresum a Christiani populi finibus tenebris profugatis, lumen Catholicæ veritatis, Christo verâ luce largiente, refulgeat. Secundo, ut bellorum rabie, quâ, satore zizaniæ seminante in diversis partibus mundi affligitur et dissipatur populus Christianus, congruâ meditatione sedatâ, pacis auctore prostante in statum reducatur pacificum et tranquillum. Tertio, ut cum multiplicibus vitiorum tribulis et spinis Christi vinea jam quasi silvescat præ nimiâ densitate, ut illis debitæ culturæ studio resecatis, evangelico agricolâ cælitus operante, refloreat, honestatisque fructus et honoris felici ubertate producat.”—_Concil. tom. p. 39, 40._ [188] _Acta Concil. tom. xxx. p. 24, 49._ [189] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 148._ [190] See a copy of the cardinal’s letter (the good sense and integrity of which are much more commendable than its Latinity) in the _Fasciculus Rer. Expet. et Fug. p. 54 et seq._ [191] _Conciliorum. tom. xxx. p. 54._ [192] _Concilior. tom. xxx. p. 77._ [193] _Concilior. tom. xxx. p. 81._ [194] _Ibid, p. 92._ [195] _Concilior. tom. xxx. p. 103._—This decree was passed July 13th, 1433. [196] _Poggii Epistolæ lvii. ep. xxvi._—This letter bears date June 30th, 1433. [197] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 147._ [198] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 149._ [199] _Ibid, p. 154._ [200] _Ibid, p. 153._ _Poggii Hist. Flor. p. 301._ [201] During his residence in Rome, Sigismund received from the pontiff six thousand gold crowns per month, to enable him to maintain the state becoming his exalted rank. Poggio gives a particular account of the emperor’s coronation in a letter to Niccolo Niccoli, which has not yet been printed. _Poggii Historia de Variet. Fort. p. 92, 93._ [202] _Concil. tom. xxx. p. 114._ [203] _Poggii Epist. lvii. p. 221, 222, 223._ This letter, which by a typographical error is dated 1433, was written, Jan. 27th, 1434. [204] _Concilior. tom. xxx. p. 129._ [205] _Concilior. p. 146._ [206] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 155, 156, 157, 158._—_Platina, p. 405._—_Ambrogii Traversarii Epistolæ, lib. i. ep. vi. apud notas._ [207] _Poggii Histor. de Variet. Fortunæ, p. 92._ [208] _Ambrogii Traversarii Epist. lib. v. ep. x._ [209] _Poggii Hist. de Variet. Fort. p. 92._—_Opera, p. 392._ [210] _Elogi degli Uomini Illustri Toscani, tom. i. p. 367._ [211] Eadem iter facienti ad ortum occurrit amæna vallis, villis et pagis referta nomine Mugellum quam interfluit flumen Sæva.—_Schotti Itinerarium Italiæ, p. 189._ [212] _Pignotti Istor. di Toscana, lib. iv. cap. 9_, as referred to by Tonelli.