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hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [37] ut si qua umquam indignatio fuerit, victus 413 ducali patientia summus pontifex nil aliud duci posset dicere, nisi quod solus adversus iram vera arma, verasque vires, quibus se tutaretur 414 , invenisset, sicut 415 in Tusculano senatu dixisse Camillum Livius refert. Numquid praeterea 416 novimus inimicitias, si quae fuerant 417 , exacto jam anno per pacem sopitas? Cujus mediatores fuerunt viri optimi atque rarissimi, cardinales sanctae crucis et sancti Petri, a vestro sacerrimo coetu ob eam rem Florentiam destinati. Conditiones 418 pacis secundum papam dictae. Post eam 419 nihil umquam odiosum inter eos contigit. [38] Sed ut videatis manifestissima benevolentiae indicia, hic animum paulisper intendite. Defecerunt ab 420 duce Genuenses 421 , qui cum bello undique premerentur, libertatis servandae gratia cum Venetis ac 422 Florentinis foedera percusserunt. Tum papa ingens duci bellum imminere cognoscens, imparemque tantis 423 viribus eum 424 existimans, ne periculoso 425 nimis proelio urgeretur, auctorem se pacis obtulit, virumque omnium opinione probatissimum cardinalem sanctae crucis misit, qui ducem de pace requireret, ipse alios flexurus. Quo inspecto animo omnem dux ipse litem omnemque controversiam sanctissimo domino nostro commisit, arbitrumque et amicabilem compositorem inter se atque hostes papam elegit. 413 victrix Z 414 tutaret Z 415 sic Z 416 non add. F, M 417 fuerunt Z 418 condictiones A 419 pacem add. Z 420 a M 421 Januenses Z 422 et N 423 tanti B 424 ducem Z 425 periculo B 90
hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [37] And when there was a conflict between them, the Supreme Pontiff was overcome by the duke’s forbearance : he had to admit that the duke had used legitimate weapons and legitimate force against him and only in self-defense, just – as, according to Livy 426 , Camillus 427 spoke in the Tusculan Senate 428 . Moreover, we know 429 that this enmity (if you can really call it that) was ended through the conclusion of a peace already more than a year ago. The mediators of this peace were those two great and distinguished members of your own sacred assembly, the Cardinals of Santa Croce 430 and of San Pietro 431 whom you sent to Florence for this very purpose. The conditions of peace were dictated by the pope himself, and afterwards there has been no enmity between them whatsoever. [38] But if you want irrefutable proofs of their friendship, then just hear this: the Genoese were pressed by war on all sides, and in order to keep their liberty they defected from the duke and instead made a treaty with Venice and Florence. The pope learned that the duke was threatened by a major war and estimated that the duke’s forces were no match for the great forces of his enemies. To avoid the duke being pressed into a war too risky for him 432 , the pope then offered himself as a peacemaker, sent the widely respected Cardinal of Santa Croce 433 on a peace mission to the duke, and he himself undertook to bend the other parties. When the duke had considered this, he entrusted the whole conflict and the whole controversy to our Holy Lord 434 and choose the pope as mediator and friendly peacemaker between himself and his enemies 435 . 426 Titus Livius (59 BC-17 AD): Roman historian 427 Marcus Furius Camillus (ca. 446 – 365 BC): Roman general 428 Livy: Ab urbe condita, 6, 26, 1-2. Cf. Loeb ed. 1924, p. 286. The event took place in 382 BC 429 Cf. Pius II: Orationes, p. 36, n. 11 430 Niccolò Albergati (b. 1373, c. 1426, d. 1443): cardinal 431 Juan Cervantes (b. ?, c. 1426, d. 1453): cardinal 432 Cf. Pius II: Orationes, p. 36, n. 12 433 Niccolò Albergati 434 i.e. the pope 435 These shifts in alliances are typical of the Italian power politics of the period: every state systematically worked against any other state or coalition of states becoming too strong 91
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