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

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then abstained for a time from all tiieological discussion.
In 1559, however, Paleario was again accused, this time
before the Inquisition at Milan ; he voluntarily appeared
before the judge, and on January 23rd, 1560, was able to obtain
an acquittal.- In spite of this, in 1567 the Milanese tribunal
had once more to inquire into his opinions, the matter of the
accusation this time being his Sienese apologia, which had now
been printed.^ In the following year, by order of the Pope,
his trial was transferred to Rome.^ At the Roman inquiry,
the excitable but vague and credulous rhetorician cut a sorry
figure. He maintained in all seriousness that the reigning
Pope had bought the Papacy by a gift of 30,000 and 8,000
scudi. He saw a serious fault on the part of Pius V. in the
fact that the new edition of the Roman breviary no longer
contained an office of the Holy Name of Jesus which had been
approved by Clement VII. and Paul III., and for this " grave
public sin " as well as on account of the strictness of the Pope
against the heretics, he maintained that Pius V. was not the
true Pope, and that anyone who lives in grave public sin
cannot be the Vicar of Christ. But on the other hand he was
so far from being a true Protestant that he accepted the
authority of the Fathers, especially St. Augustine, and of the
Council of Trent. ^ He refused from the first to admit any
1 BoNNET-MeRSCHMANN, 151. FONTANA, I75.
- FoNTANA, 165 seq.
^ FoNTANA, 166. For the other charges against Paleario cf.
Ladekchi, 1568, n. ^o seqq. Ladcrchi had at his disposal the
acta of the Roman Inquisition.
* F. Gabotto in La Cultura, 1891, tries to prove from a letter
of Paleario of May 17, 1568, " non esser vero che da questa citta
[Milan] il Paleaiio fosse tratto a forza." This letter, with the
date May 11, 1568, was already published by Cantu in Arch. star.
Lonib., VL (1879), 481, n.
* " Subscripsi mea manu quod dictaverunt mihi theologi . . .,
qui allatis codicibus divi Augustini [perhaps this refers to the
passages on the punishment of heretics] ostenderunt mihi multa
quae ignorabam et propterea fuimus Concordes. Item, allatis
concilii Tridentini decretis, sententiis Patrum, a quibus mens mea
numquam soluit dissentire, ut dixi in prime meo responso etc."