Lucae Paeti ... de mensuris, et ponderibus Romanis, et Graecis

Prisons are also being constructed in a larger and more convenient form for the relief of the poor defendants, and the care of the prisoners themselves is being handled humanely; and just as the innocent are acquitted, so are the impious and the wicked being punished most severely with due penalties, with no hope left in gold. And furthermore, which pertains most of all to legitimate offspring and the holy faith, Marriages, baptismal fonts, and the care of souls are being kept piously and holily. Furthermore, to the great joy of all good men and the eagerness of the faithful, the Jews are being separated from almost all commercial dealings with Christians, distinguished by their dress, segregated in their habitation, and confined to a ghetto. You have also commanded and brought about the exile and confinement of harlots, who, in such great license for sinning, were corrupting good morals with the worst examples. But you have also provided for the decorum and ornament of your city of Rome, ordering the Aqua Virgo, recently restored after eight hundred years (a matter about which I was known to your Beatitude), to be constructed into fountains and flowing waters designated throughout the whole city. And nothing of those things, which are even the least, is omitted by you due to your greatest preoccupations. Relying on this confidence, I did not think it should be passed over that I should offer these things, which have long been elaborated by me regarding the restoration of measures and weights, and regarding their comparison with those which we use in Rome, to be read by your Beatitude, so that what has so long remained controversial among the most learned and erudite men, in the most happy times of your Beatitude, and under your most holy