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His other relations were treated with equal severity.
Bonelli's father, who came to pay a visit to this son of his
who had climbed so high, received orders to go back home
as quickly as possible.^ The Cardinal's mother was only
able to go to him at night, for Pius V. would not hear of such
vanities as a public reception. ^ When Bonelli's sister mar-
ried, she only received a small dowry, and in the same v/ay
all his other relatives, whose hopes had run high, were com-
pletely disillusioned. The Pope saw to it that they had a
modest competence and could live decently ; he educated
their sons with the Jesuits, but he did no more for them,
and kept them at a distance as much as possible.^
Pius V. made an exception in the case of Paolo Ghislieri,
his brother's son, whom he redeemed from captivity with the
Turks, and first sent back to his own country, but afterwards,
since he was a capable soldier, summoned to Rome, and in
May, 1567, appointed Captain of the body-guard, and
Governor of the Borgo.* Paolo had already several times
drawn down upon himself the severe censure of the Pope for
1 *Avviso di Roma of October 5, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 295,
Vatican Library.
2 *Avviso di Roma of October 4, 1567, Urb. 1040, p. 445, ihid.
' See in App. n. 3 the *Avviso di Roma of January 12, 1566,
ibid. ; the *report of Cusano of March 30, 1566, State Archives,
Vienna ; the *letter of C. Luzzara of August 3, 1566, Gonzaga
Archives, Mantua. Cf. Tiepolo, 178 ; Corresp. de Philippe II.,
I., 596 ; PoLANCi Epist. in Anal Bolland., VII., 52 seq. ; Moroni,
XXX., 193 ; Bruzzone, Bosco, 140 seq. and Riv. di Alessandria,
XIV. (1904), 382. Girolamo Ghislieri, who felt no vocation to
the ecclesiastical state, had to go back to his brother Michele
{cf. Steinhuber, Collegium Germanicum, I., 62) and later on
became governor of the Borgo ; see *Avviso di Roma of November
6, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 596, Vatican Library. For the subsequent
fortunes of the Pope's family, see the detailed accounts in Riv. di
Alessandria, X., 3 (1901), XIV. (1904), 396 seq.
* With Tiepolo in Mutinelli, I. 5.^, seq., cf. the *Avvisi di Roma
of October 5 and 12, 1566, April 19 and May 3, 1567 (Vatican
Library) and the *letter of Arco of May 3, 1567, State Archives,
Vienna. Cf. also Gabutius, 230.