[Footnote 64: Besides the epistles of Gregory himself, which are
methodized by Dupin, (Bibliotheque Eccles. tom. v. p. 103 - 126,)
we have three lives of the pope; the two first written in the
viiith and ixth centuries, (de Triplici Vita St. Greg. Preface to
the ivth volume of the Benedictine edition,) by the deacons Paul
(p. 1 - 18) and John, (p. 19 - 188,) and containing much
original, though doubtful, evidence; the third, a long and
labored compilation by the Benedictine editors, (p. 199 - 305.)
The annals of Baronius are a copious but partial history. His
papal prejudices are tempered by the good sense of Fleury, (Hist.
Eccles. tom. viii.,) and his chronology has been rectified by the
criticism of Pagi and Muratori.]