[Footnote 77: In this account of the councils of Basil,
Ferrara, and Florence, I have consulted the original acts,
which fill the xviith and xviiith tome of the edition of
Venice, and are closed by the perspicuous, though partial,
history of Augustin Patricius, an Italian of the xvth
century. They are digested and abridged by Dupin,
(Bibliotheque Eccles. tom. xii.,) and the continuator of
Fleury, (tom. xxii.;) and the respect of the Gallican church
for the adverse parties confines their members to an awkward
moderation.]