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220 HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

<strong>of</strong> Italy. ^ Commendone made a visitation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> monas-<br />

teries <strong>of</strong> South Germany in 1569 as Papal legate, 2 while<br />

Bartolomeo Porzia did <strong>the</strong> same in <strong>the</strong> diocese <strong>of</strong> Aquileia,<br />

with <strong>the</strong> consent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Archduke, Charles <strong>of</strong> Austria. ^ <strong>The</strong><br />

Pope intended to extend to Spain, ^ and even to <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

Church, 5 <strong>the</strong> visitation which he had ordered for Italy.<br />

<strong>The</strong> unfortunate experience which Pius V. had had <strong>of</strong><br />

some <strong>of</strong> his episcopal brethren made him seek with all <strong>the</strong><br />

more anxiety for means <strong>of</strong> excluding unworthy candidates<br />

<strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> episcopate, at least for <strong>the</strong> future. In a secret<br />

consistory on April i8th, 1567, he enacted that henceforth<br />

every Italian bishop must be examined in Rome by a commission.<br />

« On May 3rd three archbishops were charged with<br />

<strong>the</strong> duty <strong>of</strong> examining all those who were proposed in con-<br />

sistory for bishoprics and abbacies.' As far as he could,<br />

1 *Decreta a rev. D. visitatore apostolico facta de anno 1571<br />

pro ecclesia parochiali S. Michaelis de Arimino : Barb. L 152,<br />

Vatican library. *Appunti e decreti della sacra visita di Pietro<br />

de Lunel vescovo di Gaeta deputato del Papa come legato apos-<br />

tolico a visitare le diocesi di Spoleto : Cancellaria arcivescov. at<br />

Spoleto. Cf. Sordini in Bollet. per TUmbria XIII. (1908).<br />

2 Laderchi, 1568, n. Qo. M. Mayr in Stiidien u. Mitteil. aus<br />

dent Benediktiner-und Zizterzienserorden, XIV. (1893), 385 seqq.<br />

A. Starzer in Blatter des Ver'eins fur Landeskunde von Niederos-<br />

terreich, 1892, 156 seg.<br />

» Laderchi, 1569, n. 222. A *command to <strong>the</strong> Archbishop <strong>of</strong><br />

Avignon, <strong>of</strong> July 17 1569, to begin <strong>the</strong> visitation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> legation<br />

as soon as possible, in Brevia, Arm. 44.<br />

31-<br />

Papal Secret Archives.<br />

* Requesens to Philip II., February i, 1567, Corresp. dipl., II.,<br />

^ Letter <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> Cardinal <strong>of</strong> Portugal to Francis Borgia, <strong>of</strong><br />

October 25, 1569, S. Franc. Borgia, V., 222.<br />

" *B. Pia to <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong> Mantua, April 19, 1567, Gonzaga<br />

Archives, Mantua. *Arco, on <strong>the</strong> same date. State Archives,<br />

Vienna.<br />

^ *" Furono deputati tre arcivescovi sopra 1' esamine di quelU<br />

che da qui innanzi havranno da esser proposti in concistorio a<br />

vescovadi et abbadie, et sono I'arcivescovo Maffeo, I'arcivescovo<br />

S. Severina et I'arcivescovo Ferufi&na " (B. Pia to <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong>

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