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l60 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
happy the selection was. All Rome was thrown into mourning
when, on January 13th, 1591, he succumbed to heart disease.
The master of ceremonies, Mucanzio, could hardly find words
to express the great qualities of the dead man, who had made
the Maronite College his heir, and had expressed the wish to
be buried without pomp and in silence.^
After this first creation of Cardinals more than two years
went by, and the Pope had taken no further steps to complete
the number of the senate of the Church by fresh nominations.
The state of expectancy at the Roman court grew greater and
greater at the prospect that once again, without any notice or
consultation, he would suddenly produce a new list of
Cardinals. 2 Of the sixty-eight Cardinals at the beginning of
the pontificate eight had died by the end of 1567, and eight
more by 1569,^ and it had become necessary to fill the places
of such eminent men as Reumano, Dolera, Scotti, Mula and
Cicada. There was no lack of conjecture and rumour as to
those who had been chosen by the Pope, and it was said that
Pius V. had written to cause inquiries to be made in all the
countries of the world, in order to discover learned and blame-
less men, and that he would not give the preference to Italians
over those of other nationalities.^ The nomination of eight
Cardinals was looked upon as certain at Christmas, 1568, and
^ *" Urbs tota at universa curia tanti viri iacturam moleste
admodum tulit, spectatae enim probitatis, integerrimae vitae at
sicuti a nonnuUis audivi virgo hababatur, religione, caritate
animi, candore, humanarum rerum scientia, eruditione et usu
cunctis amabilis in magna fuit hominum veneratione et aestimationa
; eius etiam ultimum elogium quantus vir fuerit demon-
strat ; instituit anim haeredem collegium Maronitanuni quod
paupertate laborabat at reliquit, ut eius corpus sepelliretur sine
pompa noctis tampore in acclesia s. Sylvestri in monte Quirinali."
MucANTii Diaria caerem., Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
2 *Avviso di Roma of Dacambar 14, 1569, Urb. 1041, p. 196b,
Vatican Library.
' CiACONius, III., 1066. For the death of Cardinal Vitalli, see
App. n. 51.
Cusano, August 7, 1568, Canisii Epist., VI., 732.