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292<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

PYom <strong>the</strong> first no one expected anything else <strong>from</strong> Pius V.<br />

<strong>The</strong> new Pope, so wrote Cardinal Cicada in announcing <strong>the</strong><br />

election to <strong>the</strong> Republic <strong>of</strong> Genoa, will be a distinguished<br />

pastor, who will above all things set his heel upon <strong>the</strong> heretics<br />

and <strong>the</strong> enemies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> faith. ^ As early as <strong>the</strong> beginning<br />

<strong>of</strong> February, 1566, <strong>the</strong> Imperial ambassador Arco wrote<br />

that <strong>the</strong>re was talk <strong>of</strong> reorganising <strong>the</strong> tribunals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> In-<br />

quisition ;- a few days later he speaks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> reform as an<br />

accomplished fact ; an entirely new congregation had been<br />

set up for <strong>the</strong> administration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition, composed<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> four Cardinals, Scotti, Pacheco, Rebiba and Gambara^<br />

In a motu proprio <strong>the</strong> Pope justified this step by saying that<br />

he wished to facilitate a more speedy decision <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> trials<br />

<strong>the</strong>n pending befoi^e <strong>the</strong> Holy Office, and that <strong>the</strong> nine mem-<br />

bers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old commission were too busy with o<strong>the</strong>r matters ;<br />

<strong>the</strong> ordinance <strong>of</strong> Pius IV. held good in <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new<br />

^ " Bonissimo pastore, el quale sopra tutto sara acerrimo<br />

j^ersecutore delli heretici at altri nemici della nostra fede." Cicada,<br />

January 11, 1566, in Rosi, Riforma in Liguria, 63.<br />

- * Arco, February 2, 1566, State Archives, Vienna.<br />

^ * Arco, February, 1566, State Archives, Vienna. *Semstori,<br />

February 6, 1566, State Archives, Florence. <strong>The</strong> names <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

same four Cardinals are given as Inquisitors on <strong>the</strong> occasion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

autodafe in Rome on June 23, 1566 (Firmanus, *Diarium, p. 10 ib.<br />

Papal Secret Archives ; cf. App. nn. 35-47) as well as in an edict<br />

<strong>of</strong> July 4, 1567, in Hilgers, Index, 504. On <strong>the</strong> death <strong>of</strong> Scotti<br />

in 1568, Chiesa took his place (*Arco, April 3, 1568, loc. cit.; a<br />

list <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Cardinals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition in Firmanus, *Diarium,<br />

on November 30, 1568, loc. cit., 272 ; cf. supra, p. 289). On<br />

February 28, 1568, <strong>the</strong> *Avvisi di Roma (Urb. 1040, p. 484 Vatican<br />

Libraiy) report that Borromeo as well was to be summoned to <strong>the</strong><br />

Inquisition. Santori was appointed consultor to <strong>the</strong> Inquisition ;<br />

see his *notes on his audience with <strong>the</strong> Pope on February 5, 1566,<br />

Papal Secret Archives, Arm. LII., 17, and his Autobiografia, XII.,<br />

340.<br />

" Arcangelus Blancus, episc. <strong>The</strong>anensis," became " com-<br />

missarius generalis Inquisitionis " in T566 ; Brevia, Arm. 29,<br />

t. 224, p. 7b, Papal Secret Archives. For <strong>the</strong> important services<br />

<strong>of</strong> Gambara to <strong>the</strong> Inquisition cf. Albert, II., 4, 186 ; Corresp.<br />

dipL, II., 76.

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