In the year 1610 Sarpi notices the purchase of Sulmona and other fiefs by Paul for his family, at the expenditure of 160,000 ducats (vol.ii.p.

70).

In another place he speaks of another sum of 100,000 spent upon the same object (vol.i.
p.

249, note).

Well might he exclaim, 'Il pontefice e attesa ad arrichir la sua casa' (vol.i.p.