 The output of printing presses at this period was, as a matter of course, subject to governmental scrutiny; during Paul II's reign, books produced in the Papal States were largely limited to Latin classical literature and ecclesiastical texts.The chronicler Stefano Infessura's republican and anti-papal temper makes his diary a far from neutral though well-informed witness.But it is certain that although Paul II opposed the humanists, he yet provided for popular amusements