The first cover’s Panvinio’s career in two chapters. The results were not sufficiently confessional for subsequent scholars based in Rome, and thus they rarely were printed for wide distribution.
The result is a detailed study of a historian who tried to balance respect for the documents found with defense of the church. Stefan Bauer’s The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform highlights Panvinio’s extensive research on church history, especially his works focused on the papacy. That Augustinian savant has been best known for his research on Roman history.
But a great deal of work already had been done on the Catholic side by Onofrio Panvinio (d. The division of ecclesiastical history along confessional lines is most easily identified with the Protestant Magdeburg Centuries (1559–74) and the Roman Catholic response, spearheaded by Cardinal Caesar Baronius.
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