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CHAPTER VII.
The Roman Inquisition preserves Religious Unity
IN Italy.
The wish that his works might be buried together with the
great champion of the tribunals of the faith had found ex-
pression at the time of the death of Paul TV. in the destruction
of the Palace of the Inquisition. But the futility and im-
])racticability of any such idea was manifest to all when the
former Grand Inquisitor of Paul IV., as soon as he had as-
cended the throne of St. Peter under the name of Pius V,
proceeded to build a new and even more secure home for the
Holy Oihce. On May i8tb, 1566, the palace of the deceased
Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci, situated in the Leonine City, close
to the German cemetery, passed, mainly by purchase, into
the hands of Pius V., and the building, where the Inquisition
was ahead}' carrying on its business, was made over to it
as its permanent abode. ^ In the July of that year we find
it stated that the Pope was thinking of erecting a new building,
that three plans had been prepared, and that 50,000 scudi
had been assigned for the purpose from the Papal treasury.
In the opinion of the architect, Pino, however, this sum was
insufficient. The projected palace would have to be very
large, must have room for the prisons in its upper storeys,
and must be built in such a way as to be safe from attacks
such as that which had taken place at the death of Paul IV. ^
^ Bull. Rom., VII., 445 seqq.; cf. Fontana in Arch. Rom., XV-
(1892), 462. A *bull " Cum nos " of August 15, 1567, contains
the " confirmatio emptionis palatii ipsius inquisitionis." Archives
of Briefs, Rome.
^ *Ciregiola to Cardinal Medici, Rome, July 19, 1566, State
Archives, Florence, Medic. 5096. *Arco on August 10, 1566,
wrote to Vienna that the money for the building had been taken
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