1730–1740
Clement XII
varia)
1742–1745
1740–1758
Benedict XIV
Francis I (of Lorraine)
1745–1765
1758–1769
Clement XIII
Joseph II
1765–1790
1769–1774
Clement XIV
1775–1799
Pius VI
Leopold II
1790–1792
Francis II
1792–1806
1800–1823
Pius VII
Abdication of Francis II
1806
1823–1829
Leo XII
1829–1830
Pius VIII
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§ 50. Gregory the Great. a.d. 590–604.
Literature.
I. Gregorii M. Opera.: The best is the Benedictine ed. of Dom de Ste Marthe (Dionysius Samarthanus
e congregatione St, Mauri), Par., 1705, 4 vols. fol. Reprinted in Venice, 1768–76, in 17 vols.
4to.; and, with additions, in Migne’s Patrologia, 1849, in 5 vols. (Tom. 75–79).
Especially valuable are Gregory’s Epistles, nearly 850 (in third vol. of Migne’s ed.). A new ed. is
being prepared by Paul Ewald.
II. Biographies of Gregory I
(1) Older biographies: in the "Liber Pontificalis;" by Paulus Diaconus († 797), in Opera I. 42 (ed.
Migne); by Johannes Diaconus (9th cent.), ibid., p. 59, and one selected from his writings, ibid.,
p. 242.