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mounted on horses there was no dangerJ In the end all that
Pius V. obtained was that the bull-fights were forbidden for a
time, on the pretext of the mourning in which the nation was
plunged on account of the imprisonment of Don Carlos ;^
otherwise the bull had no effect in Spain, and Gregory XIII.
found himself obliged to remove the penalty of excommunica-
tion inflicted by his predecessor. ^
A warning of the Council may perhaps have lent strength
to the intention of Pius V. to prohibit the use of figured music
in divine worship, and to allow nothing but the Gregorian
chant.* A brief directed against a kind of Church music
which provoked sensuality rather than piety was issued by
him a few years later, on the authority of what had been said
at the Council, to the Bishop of Lucca, in whose city the
musical performances during Holy Week occasioned all
manner of scandals among the young people of both sexes,
who flocked to them in great numbers.^ A prohibition of
burials in the churches was also the outcome of a proposal
1 Ibid. 366.
^ Ibid. 323.
^Iheinek, Annales, II., 122, 590.
^*Av\iso of July 5, 1567, Urb. 104c, p. 413, Vatican library.
Perhaps the legend of the threat to figured music in Rome, and how
it was saved by Palestrina, sprang from this statement and a
confusion of Pius V. with his predecessor. It was in this same
year 1567 that Palestrina thought of leaving Rome and entering
the service of the Emperor : *" II cantore Giov. di Palestrina si
contenta di venir a servire la M*^^ V* per quattrocento scudi
d' oro r anno ;
io ho fatto quanto ho potuto per ridurlo ancora a
meno, ma non ho potuto ottener piii. Adesso aspetter6 che la
yiik yra j^j command! quello ho a fare circa quest' huomo, il quale
mi vien lodato da niolti " (Arco, November 8, 1567, State Archives,
Vienna). *" Con Giov. di Palestrina non passer6 piii innanzi."
(Arco, January 3, 1568, ibid.).
^ Brief of April 4, 1571, in Laderchi, 1571, n. 165. In this,
as the Council had done, Pius V. censured the " lascivia " of these
performances. Two other briefs, of April 2, 1570, on ecclesiastical
music in Mexico, ibid. 1570, n. 417.