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THE INQUISITION AT GENOA. 319
Senate nothing that it sought to show that the matter was
of no real importance ; the Pope sent Bianchi, Bishop of
Teano, as judge-extraordinary, and when the latter proceeded
with the utmost rigour, condemned some of the offenders to
the galleys and insisted on their making a public recantation
in penitential dress, contrary to all previous usage in Genoa,
of just as little avail were the protests which were made, to
the effect that it would be better to spare such Spanish procedure
in a city which was " all zeal, good-will, and piety "
and that the very publicity of the recantation only served to
call attention to the heresy. The Senate resigned itself
to what had been done when the Pope paid tribute in a brief
to Genoa as a city of long proved Catholic loyalty, but went
on to show that for that very reason the city ought not to
take exception to the wiping out of the recent stain upon its
honour by means of the same penalties as were used in
Florence, Venice, Rome and elsewhere.^ Two years later
Pius V. himself, in answer to a request from the Senate,
mitigated the penalties which had been inflicted as far as
possible.^
Immediately after receiving news of the election of Pius
v., the Republic of Lucca had hastened to renew its edicts
against any dealings with the exiles from Lucca at Lyons.
and thus, even before paying its homage to the new Pope,
the city had met his wishes. In the following year all dealings
with their exiled fellow-citizens at Lyons were even more
strictly prohibited.'* But in spite of all its loyalty to the Holy
See, the Republic, in its instructions for the paying of homage
had charged its representative to do all he could in Rome
1 Brief of June 5, 1568, in Laderchi, 1568, n. 44. Rosi, loc.
cit. 158 seq.
^ Brief of October z-], 1570, in Rosi, 159 scq.
'See Vol. XVI. of this work, p. 347.
* Edicts of January 11 and 15, and March 27, 1566, 1567 and
1568, given by EuG. Lazzareschi, Le relaziono fra S. Pio V. e la
repubblica di Lucca, Florence, 191 1, 6-8. The Pope soon lost
his distrust of Lucca, Requesens to Philip II., November 21, 1567,
Corresp. dipl., II., 262 seq. ; cf. 158.