Cardinal Bona would have found this tripartite division in the majority of his predecessors, and expounded the signs of each spirit in a set of moral virtues and vices “to which prayerful persons seem to be accustomed.”47 His predecessor Alvarez de Paz had already established that “whether interior or exterior, the [non-human] spirit is recognized by the fruits it develops in the [human] soul.”48 Scaramelli relies heavily on Bona and de Paz in his Discernimento Degli Spiriti (1753), although expressing