VIAN: Pius X was certainly an intransigent on religious questions, but very malleable on political ones. Pope Sarto, different from his immediate predecessors (Pius IX and Leo XIII), was not born in the Papal State and did not show any nostalgia for temporal power.
VIAN: Pio X era certamente un intransigente sulle questioni religiose, ma molto duttile in quelle politiche. Papa Sarto, a differenza dei suoi immediati predecessori (Pio IX e Leone XIII), non era nato nello Stato Pontificio e non mostrava nostalgie per il potere temporale.