Ethelred Luke Taunton, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 7… (1911)
“ In the meantime he began to attack the political action of the Vatican, and in his Il Moderno Dissidio tra la Chiesa e l’Italia (1878) he advocated an understanding between the church and state. This was followed by La Nuova Italia ed i Vecchi Zelanti (1881) , another attack on the Vatican policy; and by his Vaticano Regio (1883) , in which he accuses the Vatican of trafficking in holy things and declares that the taint of worldliness came from the false principles accepted by the Curia. His former work at Naples drew him also in the direction of Christian Socialism. ”
