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PLAN FOR A PROVINCIAL SYNOD. IQI<br />

as visitor in <strong>the</strong> neighbourhood <strong>of</strong> Rome. When he visited<br />

Porto to see to <strong>the</strong> erection <strong>of</strong> fortifications against <strong>the</strong> cor-<br />

sairs/ he also went to Ostia, and finding <strong>the</strong> church <strong>the</strong>re<br />

very much neglected, he bitterly reproached Cardinal Pisani<br />

and took away 3,000 scudi <strong>from</strong> his revenues in order to make<br />

good <strong>the</strong> damage. 2<br />

Besides all this, Pius V., first in <strong>the</strong> autumn <strong>of</strong> 1566, and<br />

again in <strong>the</strong> following Lent, planned to hold a great provincial<br />

synod <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> bishops <strong>of</strong> Italy, which was to lay down in<br />

detail <strong>the</strong> line <strong>of</strong> reform to be adopted,^ but as <strong>the</strong> provincial<br />

synod <strong>of</strong> Milan held by Cardinal Borromeo had already<br />

covered this ground, we may reasonably suppose that it was<br />

on that account that <strong>the</strong> plan was allowed to lapse.*<br />

would appear that only two <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se bishops were actually accom-<br />

panied by a Jesuit (Sacchini, P. III., i. 7, n. 16). *Decree <strong>of</strong><br />

reform <strong>from</strong> Sormaani for Rimini in Cod. CP 5n. 24 <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gam-<br />

balunga Library, Rimini.<br />

1 Laderchi, 1566 n. 63.<br />

^ Ibid. n. 64. *Strozzi, November 6, 1566, State Archives,<br />

Vienna. *Avviso <strong>of</strong> November 16, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 320b,<br />

Vatican Library. <strong>The</strong> Pope also intended to visit Civitavecchia ;<br />

ibid.<br />

® See supra, p. 182, and *Avvisi <strong>of</strong> September 17 and December<br />

8, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 148b, 338b, Vatican Library. *Strozzi,<br />

December 7, 1566, State Archives, Vienna.<br />

* How highly Pius V. appreciated <strong>the</strong> provincial synod <strong>of</strong> Milan<br />

appears <strong>from</strong> a letter <strong>from</strong> Borromeo to <strong>the</strong> Bishop <strong>of</strong> Brescia<br />

dated December 27, 1566 : La Santita di Nostro Signore per la<br />

satisfatione che ha havuta di questro nostro concilio, et per il<br />

desiderio che ha di vider la riforma incamminata, ha fatto pro-<br />

hibere a i tribunaU di Roma che non faccino cosa alcuna contro a<br />

i decreti del suddetto concilio." In Sala, Docum. II. , 272.

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