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62<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

what a deep impression his piety made.^ His behaviour,<br />

as even a man so given to criticism as Galeazzo Cusano admits,<br />

was faultless, and worthy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> successor <strong>of</strong> St. Peter. 2 In<br />

1566 so cold a diplomatist as <strong>the</strong> Spaniard, Requesens,<br />

gave it as his opinion that <strong>the</strong> Church had not had a<br />

better head for <strong>the</strong> past three hundred years.^ In <strong>the</strong><br />

reports we constantly find <strong>the</strong> words : " <strong>The</strong> Pope is a<br />

saint."*<br />

" In consequence <strong>of</strong> his mortification," we read in an account<br />

devotione " 34 bishops and 26 cardinals took part in <strong>the</strong> procession<br />

(Urb. 1040, p. 526b, Vatican Library) ; *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong><br />

June II, 1569 : *" N.S. sotto il baldachino a piedi con il capo<br />

scoperto con una grandissima devotione." (Urb. 1041, p. 91b,<br />

ibid) *Arco on June 15, 1566, reports concerning <strong>the</strong> part taken<br />

by <strong>the</strong> Pope in <strong>the</strong> procession on Corpus Domini that he went<br />

on foot with his head uncovered " humiliter et sancte, quod<br />

multo ex tempore nuUos ex Pontificibus ahos fecisse constat."<br />

State Archives, Vienna.<br />

^ Cf. Corresp. de Granvelle, ^d. Poullet, I., 124 and <strong>the</strong> letters<br />

<strong>of</strong> Giov. Polanco published by Delplace in Anal. Bolland., VII.,<br />

46 seqq., which to some extent had appeared in a translation<br />

and somewhat altered in " Epistolae ... ex urbe ad Germaniae<br />

principes quosdam et alios primaries viros scriptae de gestis<br />

Pii V. P. M., Coloniae, 1567 ; see Anal. Bolland., XV., 77 seq.<br />

where, however, <strong>the</strong> earlier edition (catalogued by Pfleger,<br />

Eis-ngrein 127) <strong>of</strong> M. Eisengrein is forgotten, " Nova fide digna<br />

de rebus hoc anno a R. P. Pio V gestis ex epistoUs doctor, quorundam<br />

excerpta, Ingolstadt, 1566."<br />

* *Letter <strong>of</strong> April 20, 1566, State Archives, Vienna.<br />

^ Corresp. dipL, I., 203.<br />

* " <strong>The</strong> Pope appears to me every day more holy," is <strong>the</strong> judgment<br />

<strong>of</strong> so coldly calculating a diplomatist as Granvelle, on March<br />

10, 1566 (Corresp. ed. Poullet, I., 147 ; cf. 124, 345). Cf. <strong>the</strong><br />

*Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> January 26, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 170b,<br />

Vatican Library ; Tiepolo in Mutinelli, I., 53. On April<br />

I J 1569, B. Pia wrote : *" Dio benedetto sia lodato che<br />

dadegno di voler sotto questo santo papa aiutar la sua<br />

navicella nel piti tempes-toso mare." Gonzaga Archives,<br />

Mantua.

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