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The Reformation · 1588–1607
The Ecclesiastical Annals
Annales Ecclesiastici
Cesare Baronio · 1538–1607
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What it is
Church history year by year from the incarnation to 1198, compiled from the Vatican archives as a Catholic answer to the Magdeburg Centuries.
Why it lasted
The foundation of modern Catholic historical scholarship, and the work that opened the papal archives to systematic research.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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