“Pope Innocent III produced a vicious caricature of an old man, easily provoked and hard to calm down. He will believe anything and question nothing. He is stingy and greedy, gloomy, querulous, quick to speak, slow to listen, though by no means slow to anger. He praises the good old days and hates the present, curses modern times, lauds the past, sighs and frets, falls into a stupor and gets sick.” – Barbara Newman, The London Review of Books