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CAESAR BARONIUS (1538-1607)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAESAR See also:BARONIUS (1538-1607)  , See also:Italian See also:cardinal and ecclesiastical historian, was See also:born at See also:Sora, and was educated at See also:Veroli and See also:Naples . At See also:Rome he joined the See also:Oratory in 1557 under St See also:Philip See also:Neri (q.v.) and succeeded him as See also:superior in 1593• See also:Clement VIII., whose See also:confessor he was, made him cardinal in 1596 and librarian of the Vatican . At subsequent conclaves he was twice nearly elected See also:pope, but on each occasion was opposed by See also:Spain on See also:account of his See also:work On the See also:Monarchy of See also:Sicily, in which he supported the papal claims against those of the See also:Spanish See also:government . See also:Baronius is best known by his Annales Ecclesiastici, undertaken by the See also:order of St Philip as an See also:answer to the See also:Magdeburg Centuries . After nearly See also:thirty years of lecturing on the See also:history of the See also:Church at the Vallicella and being trained by St Philip as a See also:great See also:man for a great work, he began to write, and produced twelve folios (1588-1607) . In the Annales he treats history in strict See also:chronological order and keeps See also:theology in the background . In spite of many errors, especially in See also:Greek history, in which he had to depend upon secondhand See also:information, the work of Baronius stands as an honest See also:attempt to write history, marked with a sincere love of truth . See also:Sarpi, in urging See also:Casaubon to write against Baronius, warns him never to See also:charge or suspect him of See also:bad faith, for no one who knew him could accuse him of disloyalty to truth . Baronius makes use of the words of St See also:Augustine: " I shall love with a See also:special love the man who most rigidly and severely corrects my errors." He also undertook a new edition to the See also:Roman See also:martyrology (1586), which he purified of many inaccuracies . His Annales, which end in 1198, were continued by Rinaldi (9 vols., 1676–1677) ; by Laderchi (3 vols., 1728–1737) ; and by Theiner (3 vols., 1856) . The most useful edition is that of Mans' (38 vols., See also:lucca, 1738–1759), giving Pagi's corrections at the See also:foot of each See also:page . (E .

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