Cesar Cardinal Baronius

The Life of Cardinal Baronius is the life of a scholar of the man who not only founded the discipline of Church history but also created the model of historical scholarship that is used today. Baronius though a humble scholar in the oratory of St. Philip Neri found himself mixed into the great events of his age in correspondence with the great while his work on the Annals brought him glory for having systematized history. This edition of Lady Amabel Kerr's life of Cardinal Baronius has been reprinted from the original it is not a facsimile. Many pictures of the subjects in the work have been added as well as adjustments to some archaic 19th century words to make the work more readable but faithful to the original.