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he wrote a book on the morals of the heretics.^ His great
learning and his zeal for the faith were the things that recommended
him to Pius V.,^ who summoned him to Rome, made
him a consultor of the Inquisition, and Archbishop of Santa
Severina. It was with great difficulty that Santori obtained
from the Pope, in spite of the latter's zeal for the residence of
bishops, leave to retire to his diocese, but he was still on his
way thither when he received an order from the Pope to return,
because Pius V. intended to make him a Cardinal, and employ
him in the service of the universal Church. Santori was a
scholar of great attainments, especially on all liturgical matters
he read nmch, and remembered all that he read. He especially
applied his learning to the reform of the Roman Ritual. Strict
with himself, he was also strict with others,^ and in his zeal
for the reform of discipline and for the purity of the faith,
he was a kindred spirit to Pius V.
Like those already named, so were all the others men on
whose worth the Pope thought that he could rely, since for the
most part he had himself known them for a long time. Thus
Girolamo Rusticucci had been his secretary for nine years.'*
Ghisheri had made the acquaintance of Giovanni Girolamo
Albani, who, after distinguished studies in law had risen to a
high military position in the service of Venice, when he was
Inquisitor at Bergamo. After the death of his wife, this man,
who was clever, and of quick and sound judgment, was summoned
to Rome by the Pope, and employed in the administra-
1 See Santori, Autobiografia, XII., 339.
^ C/. Bentivogli, Memorie, Amsterdam, 1648, 62.
^ See the *Relatione, p. 90, cited supra p. 166, n. 3.
* Cf. supra, p. 74. For Rusticucci see the information in
Cardella, v., 148 seq. The author of the *Relatione cited
supra, p. 166, n. 3, describes Rusticucci thus : " d'ingegno posato,
ma sagace, di moto tardo, ma diligente, di buoni sentimenti, ma di
tardissima espressione. . . . Ha piu prudenza che dottrina. . . .
£ officioso, amorevole." It is further stated : " Servi con molto
amore per sottosegratario il card. Alessandrino, al quale ancora
in una sua necessity, provedde di non so che picola somma de
denari." loc. cit. 91.