The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

THE NEW CARDINALS. I59
Just as with Souchier a doctor of the Sorbonne and a repre-
sentative of theological learning had entered the Sacred
College, so with Giovanni Paolo della Chicsa there came a
representative of the celebrated school of law at Padua. Delia
Chiesa, who was born at Tortona in 152 1, had been married,
and had only entered later into the service of the Church.
A distinguished jurist, and the most skilful advocate in the
whole of Milan, he defended the rights of the Duke of
Terranuova against Philip II., and was afterwards made a
senator of Milan. After the death of his wife he was sent to
Rome to maintain the claims of the senate of Milan in their
dispute with Cardinal Borromeo. Pius V. drew this able
man into the service of the Church, conferred benefices on
him, made him Cardinal Deacon and Cardinal Priest, and
entrusted to him the Signatura Justitiae. Della Chiesa only
lived 55
years, and died on January 13th, in the 3Tar of
Jubilee, 1575.'-
The fourth of the new Cardinals, the Neapolitan, Antonio
Carafa, was distinguished in yet another branch of learning.
He had become a profound Greek scholar in the school of
Sirleto, and in that capacit}' later on rendered great services
to the Church under Sixtus V. and Clement VIII., especially
by his emended edition of the Greek version of the Old Testa-
ment. Carafa only attained his thirtieth year the day after
his nomination as Cardinal. He had already been destined for
the Roman purple by Paul IV., but under Pius IV. he not only
saw all hope of his promotion vanish, but he even lost his
canonr}' of St. Peter's. Pius V. again reverted to the intention
of Paul IV., obviously with the intention of restoring the
good name of the Carafa Pope and his family in the person of
Antonio Carafa.^ The later hfe of the Cardinal proved how
^ See Cardell.\, V., 118.
* See ibid. 119 seq.
^ Albert V. of Bavaria showed his joy in a *letter to CasteUini
of April 27, 1568, Cod. B. 34, Librarj'-, Faenza. Many *letters of
congratulation to Carafa on his cardinalate are in Cod. Barb.
LXI., 40, Vatican Library. Ibid. 41-48, *Lett. orig. ad A. Carafa.
1568-1577.