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CARDINAL BONELLI. 83
and especially exhorted him to a strict and retired life. When
he heard that the Cardinal often went out to the vigna, though
in a perfectly innocent way, and in the company of ecclesi-
astics, he reproached him, and held up before him as an
example his own conduct when he was a young man.^ He
himself selected the members of Bonelli's household, and
limited their number, and he expressly forbade his nephew
the use of silk attire and silver plate. ^ In a letter to Hosius
on November 2nd, 1566, Francis Borgia relates how the Pope,
when making a chance visit to Bonelli's apartments, noticed
some silk hangings, and ordered their immediate removal.
Later on he desired his nephew to live, not as a Cardinal
but as a religious.^ From the first the stipend allotted to
Bonelli was very small, and when the Cardinal asked the
Pope to allow him some of the spoglie from Spain, Pius V.
was very angry, and his wrath was even greater when he
learned that it was Cardinal Vitelli who had given him this
advice ;
the Pope then forbade his nephew to have anything
whatever to do with the said Cardinal. The scene was .such
a violent one that Bonelli was made quite ill b}^ it.''
^ *" Havendo il Papa inteso che il card. Alessandrino andava
troppo speso alle vigne et parendoli vita troppo licentiosa, gli ha
commesso che non parta piu di Palazzo et che piglia esempio della
vita de S.S**^ quando anco era giovane." (*Avviso di Roma of
June 22, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 245b, Vatican Library). Cf. the
report of Cusano of June 8, 1566, State Archives, Vienna, and
the *letter of Caligari to Commendone of July 13, in Lett, di princ,
XXIIL, n. 12, Papal Secret Archives, and that of July 20, 1566,
in Anal. Bolland., XXXIIL, 210, n. i.
2 See Laderchi, 1566, n. 37 ; cf. the *report of Babbi, March 13,
1566, State Archives, Florence, and the *Avvisi di Roma of
September 28 and October 26, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 289b, 311b,
Vatican Library.
^ See SuAU, IL, 130 ; cf. Mutinelli, L, 50. See also *Avviso
di Roma of May 3, 1567, Urb. 1040, p. 390, Vatican Library.
^ See the *reports of Arco and Cusano of May 18, 1566, State
Archives, Vienna. Ibid, a *report of Cusano of December 2,
156S, according to which Bonelli's revenues, which at first only
amounted to 3,000 to 4,000 scudi, were considerably increased.