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302<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

Even greater excitement was caused by <strong>the</strong> autodaie <strong>of</strong><br />

September 21st, 1567.'^ Among <strong>the</strong> seventeen condemned<br />

<strong>the</strong>re was a prelate who was a well-known figure in Rome,<br />

<strong>the</strong> protonotary-apostolic, Pietro Carnesecchi,- at one time<br />

principal private secretary to Clement VII., and held in high<br />

esteem by <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong> Florence and <strong>the</strong> Queen-Mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong><br />

France. After having been brought several times before <strong>the</strong><br />

Inquisition, Carnesecchi had, in <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Pius IV., obtained<br />

a discharge,^ but Pius V., in consequence <strong>of</strong> fresh signs <strong>of</strong><br />

mentioned by Pia, who was condemned and burned on <strong>the</strong><br />

following day, see *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> June 28, 1567, Urb. 1040,<br />

p. 410, Vatican Library. Cf. Scipione Volpicella, Mario<br />

Galeota letterato Napoletano del secolo XVI. (Memoria letta all'-<br />

Accademis di Archeologia, lettere e belle arti), Naples, 1877, and<br />

Appendice alia mem. su M. Galesta. Benrath in Hist. Taschenhuch,<br />

VI. (1885), 169-196. An apostate Dominican, Perini, who<br />

had married and become a pr<strong>of</strong>essor in Calabria, made his abjura-<br />

tion as a relapsed heretic (*Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> June 28, 1567, Urb.<br />

1040, p. 4T0, loc. ciL). <strong>The</strong> Bishop <strong>of</strong> Policastro made his abjura-<br />

tion before <strong>the</strong> Pope {ibid, and *Arco, June 21, 1567, State<br />

Archives, Vienna).<br />

1 FiRMANUs, *Diarium see App. nn. 35-47. *Avviso di Roma<br />

<strong>of</strong> September 27, 1567, Urb. 1040, p. 442, Vatican Library.<br />

Report <strong>of</strong> B. Pia in Davari in Arch. stor. Lomb., VI. (1879), 795.<br />

Bertolotti, Martiri, 38-43.<br />

- L. WiTTE, Pietro Carnesecchi, Ein Bild aus der italienschen<br />

Martyrergeschichte, Halle, 1883. Leon. Bruni, Cosimo I de'<br />

Medici e il processo d'eresia del Carnessecchi, Turin, 1891. A.<br />

Agostini, Pietro Carnesecchi e il movimento valdesiano, Florence,<br />

1889 {cf. Arch. stor. Ital., Ser. 5, XXVI., 1900, 325 seq.). A. Dal<br />

Canto, Pietro Carnesecchi, Rome, 191 1. Mutinelli, I., 52, 73.<br />

Palandri, it6. Giac. Manzoni, Estratto del processo di Pietro<br />

Carnesecchi {Miscellanea di Stoy. Ital., X), Turin, 1870. Hase in<br />

Jahvb. fiir protest. <strong>The</strong>ol., 1877, 148. 189. Cantu, Eretici, II.,<br />

422-434 and Arch. stor. Ital., Ser. 3, XIII. (1871), 303 seq. *Arco,<br />

September and October 4, 1567, State Archives, Vienna. Cf.<br />

Rivista stor., 1912, 41 ; 1913, 187. For <strong>the</strong> proceedings against<br />

Carnesecchi, see also, Amabile, I., 148.<br />

''See Vol. XVI. <strong>of</strong> this work, p. 308 seq.

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