THE ARCHBISHOP'S VAMPIRES GIUSEPPE DAVANZATI'S DISSERTATION AND THE REACTION OF ' SCIENTIFIC ' ITALIAN CATHOLICISM TO THE ' MORAVIAN EVENTS '

摘要

" Finding myself one evening some years ago in Rome in private conversation with the late Cardinal Schrattenbach, Bishop of Olomouc [Olmiitz], he told me, with much discrétion, that he had received in the post, from his consistory in Olomouc, a detailed report in which those ministers informed him that the disease or bloodbath of vampires was spreading greatly throughout the province of Moravia, his diocèse ...