Benedict wrote, "We had learned that an evil custom of hidden marriages, more popularly known as marriages of joint knowledge, has spread throughout much of the Christian world. Among the resulting irregularities is that hidden marriages of this sort were themselves being dissolved where other marriages were publicly celebrated." Michael Joseph Schuck (1991). That They be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals, 1740-1989. Washington DC USA: Georgetown University Press. p. 7. ISBN978-0-87840-489-6
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Em 1725, ele serviu como canonista no Sínodo Romano do Papa Bento XIII . Mario Rosa, "Benedetto XIV," in: Enciclopedia dei Papi (Treccani 2000). L. Fiorani, Il concilio romano del 1725 (Roma 1978), p. 144-146, 209.