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hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [49] Sed {7v} Simonem audivi dicentem, ut insecurum eligatis locum, quod nec 504 ipse diceret, nec suo regi in mentem caderet, cujus ea semper consuetudo fuit, ut prius consuleret, deinde 505 concilio judicium dimitteret, suumque sensum universalis ecclesiae postponeret opinioni. Quamquam, si licet dicere, nimium vos hodie, patres, defertis principibus, nec quidquam audetis agere, quod principibus non libuerit. Quod ego sane non laudo, quoniam non sic 506 majores nostros invenio factitasse, nec sic se apostolos habuisse, qui licet 507 totum contra se mundum haberent, veritatem tamen ubique praedicabant, neque minas, neque mortem, aut taeterrimos cruciatus pro veritate diffugiebant. Quibus rebus factum est, ut totum orbem Christianum nomen impleverit. Ubi vero mortis timor invasit, et divitiarum cupido supervenit, deserta veritas et incognita justitia jacet. Aut verius cum Satyro 508 dixerimus 509 : Jam dudum ad superos Astraea 510 recessit; Hac 511 comite atque duae pariter fugere sorores. Hinc diminutus populus Christianus, et 512 auctae infidelium sectae. 504 neque N 505 denique Z 506 sit B 507 etsi Z 508 satyrio A 509 diximus Z 510 astra Z 511 ac Z 512 omit. Z 102
hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 2.8. The relationship between the princes and the council [49] But I have not yet heard Simon say that you should select an unsafe location: that he would not say, and his king would not think of it. His custom has ever been first to give advice and then to leave the decision to the council thus subordinating his own opinion to the wiew of the Universal Church 513 . If I may say so, Fathers, today you defer unduly to the princes, and you do not dare do anything that displeases them 514 . For my own part, I certainly do not approve of this attitude: I find that our forefathers did not act in this way, and neither did the Apostles. Though they had the whole world against them, they preached the truth everywhere, and in the cause of truth they fled neither from threats nor death nor cruel torture. 515 Thus it came about that the Christian name filled the whole world. But when fear of death and desire for riches came in, truth was deserted, and justice was flung to the ground and neglected. The Satirical Poet 516 fittingly states that It was afterwards that, little by little, Astraea withdrew to the gods above with Chastity as her companion. The two sisters ran away together. 517 Hereafter the Christian people went into decline, and the sects of the infidels 518 increased. 513 Note the concept of the Universal Church, which is embodied by the council 514 The princes naturally had a keen interest in the councils, the only truly international (European) assemblies at the time. They influenced them heavily through their ambassadors. Piccolomini probably expresses a general concern among council members or at least of the presidency of the council, otherwise he would hardly have dared to express this sentiment 515 An early expression of Pius’ admiration for the primitive Church: a theme which recurs in his writings and in one of the most important speeches of his papacy, Sextus agitur annus, cf. Pius II: Commentarii, pp. 764 ff. 516 Satyrus = Decimus Junius Juvenalis: Roman poet (active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD). Juvenal was one of Piccolomini’s favourite classical authors 517 Juvenal: Satirae, 6, 19-20. Quoted after the Loeb edition of 2004 518 i.e. the muhammedans 103
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