Excerpt from The Life and Times of Sixtus the Fifth, Vol. 1 of 2 The life and pontificate of sixtus the fifth have often been written. Each of the three centuries which separate us from that great Pope has Seen many works appear in memory of his deeds. Of the several authors who have written about him, three have done their utmost - the one to falsify truth, the other to find it, and the third to propagate it. Their names are Leti, Tempesti, and Ranke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.