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Pius V. also took steps to promote learning, although—
thing which in view of his whole character cannot Ije considered
surprising—worldly and aesthetic considerations gave place
entirely to those which were practical and ecclesiastical.^
The poetical effusions with which he was hailed immediately
after his election, ^ and again and again later on,^ certainty
made no appeal to him, any more than did the laudatory
panegyrics of the various embassies for the obediential We
do not know of any poets being rewarded by him, though it
is recorded that one who had composed pasquinades was
severely punished.^ It would appear that even the pcets^
^ While still a Cardinal Pius V. had been active in this sense
with the Venetian academy or " della Fama," which elected him
its protector ; see Hartig, Mii chner Hofbibliothek, 216 seq.
^ See Ces. Sachetti, I tre conti per la nuova creatione di Pio
v., Bologna, 1566. The Bavarian humanist, Johanii Anspach,
also acclaimed Pius V. ;
see Hist.-pol. Blatter, C, 501 seq.
^ See the poems of Girol. and Cornelio Amalterio, of Girol.
Catena, Lodovico Cavani and Tommaso Correa in Carmina
illustr. poet., I., 136 seq., 178 seq. ; III., 314 seq., 317 seq., 319 seq.
330 seq., 448 seq. Ibid, many poems on the battle of Lepanto.
Cf. Vwl. XVIII. cf this wcrk.
* The " Oratio ad Pium V.P.M. nomine ducis Alfonsi II. habita
in Roma A, 1566," of M. A. Muret was at once printed in Rome
by de Accoltis. Muret had also saluted Pius IV. in the name of
Francis II. (Oratio, ed. Romae, A. Bladus, 1560). The *discourse
of Poggiano to Pius V. in the name of the King of Poland in the
Graziani Archives, Citta di Castello.
* A poet, relates an *Avviso di Roma of January 4, 1567, asked
the Pope for a vacant of&ce ;
Pius V. had the matter gone into,
^ poi li disse per esser authore et compositore di pasquinate in
loco di gratia vi priviamo delli beneficii che tenete indegnamente
aggiungendo che mai ne possiate havere et cosi se lo levo davanti."
Urb. 1040, p. 343, Vatican Library.
* A Caro was looked upon as the most eminent poet, on whose
death Firmanus (*Diarium XII., 31, p. 142b) reports : " Die
dominica 17 novembris [1566] obiit in via Julia . . . Hannibal
Carus. . . . Hie
erat poeta unicus ilUs temporibus in Italia,
pulcherrimi aspectus, optimae vitae, exemplaris in omnibus suis
actionibus et honor, decus ac principale ornarnentum totius nostri
piceni." Papal Secret Archives,