From The Lives of the Popes from the Time of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII. Written Originally in Latin by B. Platina, Native of Cremona, and translated into English (from an anonymous translation, first printed in 1685 by Sir Paul Rycaut), Edited by William Benham, Volume I, London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, [1888, undated in text]; pp. 247.
The Lives of the Popes,
BY
B. Platina
Volume I.
LEO VI.
A.D. 928-929.
LEO the Sixth, a Roman, was canonically elected Pope, acting nothing tyrannically in his whole life, but lived soberly and modestly, taking care of religion as far as an age of so corrupt manners would bear. For he made it his endeavour to quiet the minds of the citizens (who, through the rashness and folly of former Popes, were inclining to tumults), to compose the affairs of Italy, to make peace with foreign enemies, and to drive the barbarians from the skirts of his country, than which nothing could be done to better purpose or more commendably in so short a time; for in the seventh month and fifteenth day of his pontificate he died, and was buried in St Peter’s Church, to the great grief of the citizens of Rome.
Previous Pope: 126. John1 X. 1127. Leo VI. Next Pope: 128. Stephen VIII.