A treatise of beneficiary matters: or, a history of ecclesiastical benefices and revenues. In which are set forth their Rise and Progress, and the Various Means by which they have accrued to the Church. By Father Paul, of the Order of the Servites, and Consulter of State to the Republick of Venice. Translated from the most correct copy in Italian extant, printed at Mirandola, 1676. To which are added notes and observations; most of which were collected by M. Amelot de la Houssaie; which serve as authentick Confutations of the Calumnies spread against the Author [electronic resource].