Annotatio IV §.XIV open: Tenth century — Baronius/Bellarmine dark age; yet genuine Supper witnesses
§.XIV: Baronius marks the tenth age with black coal — iron for sterility of good, leaden for overflowing evil, obscure for want of writers.
Bellarmine’s cry: unhappy age — no illustrious writers, no councils, pontiffs little solicitous for the ecclesiastical republic.
Latin
§. XIV. SECULUM X, à Baronio in Annalibus atrô satis carbone notatum est, ob boni sterilitatem, ferreum, mali exundantis deformitatem, plumbeum, ob inopiam denique Scriptorum, obscurum nuncupatum, BELLARMINI etiam indignabundam hanc exclamationem promeritum: Vide Seculum infelix, in quo nulli Scriptores illustres, nulla Concilia, Pontifices parum solliciti de republica, subintellige Ecclesiastica;