In the year from the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1791, on the twelfth indiction, on the 31st day of August in the twentieth year of the pontificate of our most holy father in Christ, and of our Lord Pius VI., Pope, the aforesaid apostilic letter was affixed and published at the doors of the Lateran Bassilica and of the Prince of the Apostles of the Aposotlic Chancery, of the General Court in Montecitatoiio, in the plain of Campo di Fiore,[1] and in the other and usual places of the city, by me, John Renzoni, Apostolic Courier.
PART OF THE ADDRESS
DELIVERED IN THE SECRET COMMISSARY, OF THE 26 TH DAY OF JUNE 1805, BY OUR MOST HOLY LORD PIUS VII, BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE POPE.
On our first arrival,into that city (Florence) we already had a presentment, that our brother, Scipio Riccini, bishop of Pitoria formerly, and of Frato, was seriously thinking of reconciling himself to us and the holy Roman Catholic Church, which we wished a long time, and which all good men were most eagerly waiting for. But now he has fulfilled this his intention to us on our return into the aforesaid city, by an egregious example well worthy of imitation. For with filial confidence he signified to us, that he would sincerely subscribe to the formula which it had pleaded us to propose to him. Nor was he wanting in the fulfilment of the promise he had made to us. For the formula sent to him by our venerable brother, archbishop of Philippi, he read, admitted, and signed with his own band. By this formula, therefore, which he desired to be brought to the knowledge of the public, in order to repair the scandal, he declared, that he purely, and simply, and sincerely accepted and venerated the constitutions made by the Apostolic See, in which the errors of Baius, Jansenius, Queanell, and those who followed him, are proscribed, but especially the ideo-
- ↑ A moderate-sized square, with a fountain in the middle. I have some doubts as to the meaning of "in acis"
