Talk:Giulio Gabrielli

Bargrave
John Bargrave died in 1680. He made four visits to Rome, but was never intimate with any of the persons whose private opinions and conversations he mentions. Some of his material comes from Gregorio Leti, an apostate Catholic who had taken up Calvinism in Geneva and later became a propagandist for Gallican principles in the Paris of Louis XIV. Bargrave was an Anglican Protestant clergyman, who had been dispossessed of his living and had to retire to the Continent. His grasp of Italian is demonstrably defective (See Introduction to the book). He occasionally demonstrates anti-Catholic prejudices openly. One should not give credence to his narrative simply because it is in English. --Vicedomino (talk) 06:09, 11 February 2017 (UTC)