Literary Works
His chief work is Italia sacra sive de episcopis Italae (9 vols, 1643–1662), re-edited with corrections and additions by Nicola Coleti (1717–1722), with a tenth volume. In compiling this work, he frequently had to deal with matters not previously treated by historians; as a result, the Italia sacra, owing to the imperfections of historical science in Ughelli's day, especially from the point of view of criticism and diplomatics, contains serious errors, particularly as the author was more intent on collecting than on weighing documents. Nevertheless his work with all its imperfections was necessary to facilitate the labours of critical historians of a later day, and is consulted even now. In the last volume of the Italia sacra he published various historical sources until then unedited.
Among his other writings are:
- Cardinalium elogia ex sacro ordine cisterciensi (1624): elogies on the writers and saints of his order and the papal privileges granted to it;
- Columnensis familiae cardinalium imagines (1650): vitae of the Cardinal from the Colonna family.
- genealogical works on the Counts of Marsciano (1667) and the Capizucchi (1653);
- Aggiunte ("additions") to the Vitae et res gestae pontificum by Ciaconius (Alphonsus Ciacconius).
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