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VENICE AND THE INQUISITION. 317<br />

great excitement when <strong>the</strong> Pope demanded—a thing that<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten occurred in <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Pius V., when it was hoped that<br />

such a course would yield fuller information as to <strong>the</strong> spread<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Protestant movement—that a heretic, Guido da Fano,<br />

should be handed over to <strong>the</strong> Roman Inquisition. At first<br />

<strong>the</strong> Senate refused its consent absolutely and repeatedly,<br />

saying that Venice was not accustomed to send its accused<br />

before foreign tribunals, but in spite <strong>of</strong> this Pius V. remained<br />

immovable in his demand, and in <strong>the</strong> end <strong>the</strong> proud Signoria<br />

had to yield him <strong>the</strong> victory ; by <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> August, 1566,<br />

Guido had arrived in Rome.^<br />

As was <strong>the</strong> case with Venice, <strong>the</strong> Pope also distrusted<br />

<strong>the</strong> Republics <strong>of</strong> Lucca and Genoa, both <strong>of</strong> which were brought<br />

into contact with <strong>the</strong> Calvinists by <strong>the</strong>ir commercial relations<br />

with Lyons and Geneva.^<br />

Hi<strong>the</strong>rto <strong>the</strong> Genoese had shown <strong>the</strong>mselves quite docile<br />

Venedig, Halle, 1887, 70 seqq. Cf. also L. G. Pelissier, Les<br />

archives des inquisiteurs d'etat a Venise, Besan9on, 1899. See<br />

also <strong>the</strong> learned dissertation by P. Paschini Una umanista,<br />

disgraziato nel Cinquecento, Public Francesco Spinola (executed<br />

on January 31, 1567), Venice, 1919.<br />

1 Benrath, loc. cit. 68 seq. " El papa los ha apretado de<br />

manera que se resolvieron en embiarle " wrote Requesens to<br />

Philip II. on September 18, 1566. Corresp. dipl., I., 347. Lader-<br />

CHi, 1566, n. 194. *Arco, August 3, 1566, State Archives, Vienna.<br />

Pius V. had already made it a condition for his receiving <strong>the</strong><br />

Venetian embassj' for <strong>the</strong> " obedientia " that Niccolo da Ponte,<br />

who had been with<strong>drawn</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> Roman Inquisition, should be<br />

handed over. *Cusano, February 2, 1566, State Archives,<br />

Vienna. <strong>The</strong> two letters to <strong>the</strong> Doge and <strong>the</strong> nuncio in Venice,<br />

dated July 27, 1566 (Nunziat. de Venezia 17, 10 and 11, Papal<br />

Secret Archives), in which Pius V. asked for <strong>the</strong> handing over <strong>of</strong><br />

Guido Zanetti da Fano, belong to <strong>the</strong> so-called " Lettere di<br />

proprio pugno." Different <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong>se are <strong>the</strong> completely<br />

autograph letters <strong>of</strong> Pius V., at <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong><br />

Pope placed <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> Jesus. *Some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se are preserved,<br />

though unimportant as to <strong>the</strong>ir contents, in <strong>the</strong> State Archives,<br />

Florence.<br />

* Tieplo in Albert, II., .\, 190.

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