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THE NEW CARDINALS. 165
also represented in the creation, since one of the new Cardinals,
the General of the Dominicans, Vincenzo Giustiniani, a member
of the well-known and celebrated Genoese family, had been
born in the island of Chios, and had there entered the Dominican
Order, attaining to its highest dignity by the time he was
38 years old. He, too, was at the Council of Trent with 18
bishops and 27 theologians of his Order. At the time of his
nomination as Cardinal he was Papal envoy in Spain, where
he defended the cause of the Pope and Cardinal Borromeo in
the long Milanese controversy concerning jurisdiction, and at
anyrate brought about " the beginning of the end " in that
weary dispute. In the world of learning he had rendered
great services in the preparation of the new edition of the
works of St. Thomas.^
Besides Giustiniani, three others of the newly-appointed
Cardinals belonged to the religious orders ; the first of these
was the Dominican, Arcangelo Bianchi, who had long been
the regular confessor of Pius V., his trusted companion when
he was inquisitor, and who, when Ghislieri became Pope, had
been made Bishop of Teano and Commissary General of the
Inquisition. 2 Of the Franciscans, the purple was conferred on.
Felice da Montalto, the future Sixtus V., whom Pius V. had
already made General of his Order. Pius V. also gave the
newer Orders a representative in the Sacred College by the
nomination of the Theatine, Paolo Burali of Arezzo, a man of
extraordinary sanctity. PhiHp Neri lamented the death of
Paolo as a misfortune for the whole of Christendom. His
canonization was seriously contemplated, and his fellow
Theatine, Andrew Avellino, who was himself raised to the
altars of the Church, ranked him with St. Charles Borromeo.
Burali had at first been an advocate, and afterwards a judge ;
his impartiaHty and incorruptibihty were especially remark-
able, and it is related that in a certain trial, when he had to
give judgment against a poor widow, he indemnified her out of
his own means. He entered the Theatine Order at the age of
1 See Cardella, V., 146 seq.
2 See ihid. 135. The tomb of A. Bianchi, with a fine bust, at
S. Sabina ; the inscription in P'orcella, VII., 306.