The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

REFORM OF THE ORDERS. 261
The ambassador of the Duke of Modena had just arrived when,
on February 20th, 1566, the Pope again wrote that in matters
24, to the Cardinal of Lorraine :
faculties
to reform the nuns in
the dioceses of Metz and Verdun ; *February 15, to Cardinal
Giulio della Rovere for the reform of the Poor Clares at Ravenna ;
*March 7, to Carafa, Archbishop of Naples : " there must not be
a greater number of nuns in a convent than the revenues can
support " ; *March 11, bull concerning the direction of the
convents of women at Milan ; *March 13, to Cardinal Savelli,
Archbishop of Benevento, on the visitation of convents ; *April 12,
to the Bishop of Tournai on the reform of the Benedictines ;
May 10, to the Minister-General of the Observants concerning
the reform at Ragusa (W. ; 443) May 22, to the Bishop of Assisi :
" youths under 16 not to be allowed in the convents " (W. 444) ;
*May 28, to Cesare Gambara, Bishop of Tortona ; *June 11, to
Cardinal Bobba, on the Augustinian nuns of the convent of
S. Caterina at Aosta in the province of Tarantais.^ ; *July 2,
to the Bishop of Mileto on a convent at Squillace ;
* July 8, to the
Bishop of Tournai ; August i, to the Observant, Paolo Ariguccio,
Provincial of Tuscany (W. 447) ; *August 6, to the Bishop of
Montefeltro :
Durantis."
"he
must make a visitation of the abbey Castri
For 1568 : * January 19, to Federico [Cornaro], Bishop of
Bergamo : reform of nuns ; * January 28, on the enclosure of the
Carthusians in France ; February 2, to Cardinal Giulio della
Rovere on reform at Ravenna (W. 464)
; *April 8, to Cardinal
Morone on the Hieronimites of the rule of St. Augustine ;
to the convent of St. Ursula at Louvain :
*May 28,
" let them keep the
enclosure " ; July 14, reform of the convent of Cuneo, in the
diocese of Mondovi (W. 474) ; *July 17, to the General of the
Franciscans :
" they are to send some monks from Lombardy to
reform the Poor Clares of Naples " ; *July 21, to the Dominican,
Dom. della Rovere (Astensis dioecesis) : reform of nuns ; *July
*August 10, to the Cassinese abbot
27, to the Bishop of Sulmona ;
on the nuns at Capua ; *August 11, to Bonelli (Autograph of the
Pope) ; * September i, to the nuncio, Vincenzo Portico : reform
of the convents in Poland ; *September 10, to Giov. Franc.
Bonhomini, a cleric of Verona : faculty for the visitation of his
monastery at Nonantola ; *October i, to Cardinal Borromeo ;
* October 15, to the Cardinal of Aragon on the visitation of the