Pius Melia
Published: 2016-08-15
Total Pages: 170
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Excerpt from The Origin, Persecutions and Doctrines of the Waldenses: From Documents, Many Now the First Time Collected and Edited However, before assenting to the statements of the above writers, I undertook another and much more troublesome labour; namely, that of consulting the principal authors quoted by them, and of reading their original works. And, as I could not obtain all of them in England, I went to Italy, and was fortunate enough to find them partly in the Roman libraries, but principally in the King's library of Turin; where I was allowed, by that learned and courteous librarian, Commendatore Proni, to make extracts from some authentic, but not yet published, manuscripts bearing upon the Taldensian history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.