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Section 3. _the Council of Trent_

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SOURCES:

Concilium Tridentinum. Diariorum, actorum, epistularum, tractatuum nova collectio. Edidit Societas Goerresiana. 1901 ff. In course of publication; as yet have appeared vols. 1-5, 8, 10.

J. Susta: Die roemische Kurie und das Komil von Trient unter Pius IV. Aktenstucke zur Geschichte des Konzils von Trient. 4 vols. 1904-1914.

Le Plat: Monumenta ad historiam Concilii Tridentini spectantia. 7 vols. 1781-7.

The Canons and Decrees of the Sacred and Ecumenical Council of Trent, translated by J. Waterworth. 1848. Reprint, Chicago, 1917.

G. Drei: "Per la Storia del Concilio de Trento. Lettere inedite del Segretario Camille Olivo 1562." Archivio Storico Italiano 1916.

P. Schaff: The Creeds of Christendom. Vol. 2, 1877. (Latin text and English translation of canons and decrees).

The Cathechism of the Council of Trent, translated into English by J. Donovan. 1829.

LITERATURE:

J. A. Froude: Lectures on the Council of Trent. 1899.

P. Sarpi: The historie of the Councel of Trent. 1620. (Translation from the Italian, which first appeared 1619).

A. Harnack: Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, 1910, vol. iii, pp. 692 ff. English translation, vol. vii, pp. 35-117.

Ranke's remark that there was no good history of the Council of Trent holds good today. The best, as far as it goes, is in Pastor.

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