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THE POPE AND LEARNING. I3I<br />

sertation by Lorenzo Belo, who defends, quite in accordance<br />

with <strong>the</strong> mediaeval <strong>the</strong>ory, <strong>the</strong> supreme power <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pope<br />

even in temporal matters.^ <strong>The</strong>re is also an Italian translation^<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> description <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> seven basilicas <strong>of</strong> Rome by<br />

On<strong>of</strong>rio Panvinio, an essay on <strong>the</strong> primacy <strong>of</strong> St. Peter by<br />

<strong>the</strong> same writer, and a new edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Vite dei Papi by<br />

Platina.3 When <strong>the</strong> envoy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong> Urbino presented<br />

to <strong>the</strong> Pope in 1570 a work by Pandolfo Sansovino on <strong>the</strong> life<br />

<strong>of</strong> Christ, he received a gift <strong>of</strong> 200 scudi ; on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand,<br />

<strong>the</strong> Greek, Antonio Esparcho, who had been collecting manuscripts<br />

for <strong>the</strong> Vatican Library in his own country, and had<br />

been receiving a pension granted by Paul III. and continued<br />

by Paul IV. and Pius IV., tried in vain to secure <strong>the</strong> continut<br />

ance <strong>of</strong> this help.'* <strong>The</strong> reason why Paulus Manutius lef-<br />

^ *Laurentii Beli, De summa pontificia potestate creandi et<br />

destruendi dignitates et potestates in toto terrarum orbe ad Pium<br />

v., in Cod. Vatic. 5495 and Ottob. 815, Vatican Library ; also in<br />

*Carte Strozz. State Archives, Florence. For Belo cj. Marini,<br />

Lettera, 55 seq. In Cod. Vatic. 1107 *Petri Pontii Consultatio<br />

ad Pium V., quod super matriinonio rato Papa dispensare possit.<br />

^ Made by Marcus Ant. Lanfrancus Veronensis, in *Cod. Vatic,<br />

6432, Vatican Librarj'.<br />

^ O. Panvinius, De primatu Petri et apost. sedis potestate lib.<br />

II. ad Pium V., in Cod. S. 8, 9 <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Angelica Library in Rome,<br />

printed in a compendium at Verona, 1589, and several times<br />

afterwards ; see Narducci, Catal. Bibl. Angel., 528. For <strong>the</strong><br />

new edition <strong>of</strong> 1568, dedicated to Pius V., <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Vite dei papi <strong>of</strong><br />

Platina, see Vol. XV. <strong>of</strong> this work p. 421. <strong>The</strong> dedication<br />

<strong>of</strong> a work on canon law in Ciaconius, III., 1064. <strong>The</strong> Cod.<br />

Vatic. 3944, P- 48 seq. contains, *Capizuchus, Ad Pium V. super<br />

clericorum connubiis a Germanis petitis (Vatican Library). In<br />

Cod. Urb. 1235 is to be found a *Trattato della quiete civile e della<br />

sua causa da Niccolo Sergiusti Lucchese detto il Dirceo con lettera<br />

a P. Pio V. Vatican Library.<br />

* See Mel. d'archeol., XIII., 290 seq., an *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong><br />

July 17, 1568, announces that Mons. Foglieta, who was writing<br />

<strong>the</strong> " Historia del mondo, s'e posto al servitio del card. Ferrara "<br />

(Urb. 1040, p. 549, Vatican Library). Cf. " U. Folietae Tyburtinum<br />

H. Estii card. Ferrariensis " in Graevius, <strong>The</strong>s., I., 2.<br />

1228 seq. and Atli Mod., \., 204.

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