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found himself constrained to call to his assistance one of his
relatives, in whom he thought that he could put absolute
confidence. To have done this must have cost him a con-
siderable effort, for he hated nothing so much as any kind
of nepotism. When, during the first days of his reign, he was
reminded that he ought to promote his relatives, he had replied :
" God has called me to be what I am, in order that I may serve
the Church, and not that the Church might serve me."^
He sent word to one of his relations, who had come to Rome
without his knowledge at the end of January, that he must
go away at once. ^ Two sons of Domenica Bonelli, the daughter
of the Pope's sister, Gardina Bonelli, were inmates of the
Germanicum, and studying under the Jesuits ;^ Pius V. sent
them word through the rector that they Mere to go on with
their studies, and that he would take care of them if they
remained hidden and humble, but that they must not expect
great things from him.^
While he was still a Cardinal, Pius V. had sent yet a third
1 *Avviso di Roma of January 19, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 166,
Vatican Library. Cf. Caraccia in Laderchi, 1566, n. 34.
^ See *Avviso di Roma of January ,1566, Urb. 1040, p. 170b,
Vatican Library, and the *letter of Caligari of January 26, 1566,
loc. cit., Papal Secret Archives.
^ Gardina married first Marcantonio Manlio, and secondly
Bartolomeo Gallina. She died in 1548. Cf. Bruzzone in Riv.
di Alessandria, X., 2 (1901), 27. See also *Diversi appunti
e notizie d. famiglia Bonelli, in the Bonelli Archives in the Villa
Le Selve near Signa (Tuscany). In these archives, of which
Prof. Dengel was the first to make use, the acta from the earlier
Bonelli archives in Rome are not to be found, as was to have
been expected from the date of Laderchi and Garampi. [In the
Barberini Library (now in the Vatican Library), not only the
codices 3615 and 3638 (see Serrano, Corresp. dipl. I., XXIX.,
but also 3613, 3614, 3635, 3636, 3637, come from the Archives of
Cardinal Michele Bonelli, and the numbers by which Laderchi
quotes them are still visible, though very imperfectly.]
* See *Avviso di Roma of February 24, 1566, Urb. 1040, p.
185b, Vatican Library. Cf. Pqlanci Epist., in Anal. Bolland.,
VII., 61 ; Steinhuber, P, 62.