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

THE POPE AND THE INQUISITION. 327
Even though it is true that such reports arrived in great
numbers, the Inquisitors in the various Italian provinces had
to submit to constant admonitions and even to deposition
when they were negligent in fuliilling their duty.^ A whole
series of letters was addressed to the secular princes on behalf
of the Inquisition, either to recommend to them a new In-
quisitor,2 or to demand the handing over of some specially
dangerous heretic,^ or to threaten punishment to the princes
^ Cf. supra p. 322.
* Camillo Campeggio, appointed Inquisitor at Mantua (see
supra p. 322) was, by a *brief of May 31, 1567, also recommended
to the Duke of Ferrara for his dominions, on the ground that
there were heretics there, who were causing the Pope much
anxiety. Archives of Briefs, Rome, and State Archives,
Modena.
^ Brief of March 30, 1566, to the Duke of Ferrara, in Fontana,
Arch. d. Soc. Rom., XV. (1892), 461. *Brief to Luigi Birago,
Governor of Saluzzo, of December 29, 1567. Archives of Briefs ;
a brief of June 3, 1566, to the same, urging him to drive out the
Huguenots, who were wont to escape from Piedmont to Saluzzo,
in Fontana, loc. cit. 463 ; to LeUo Orsini, Lord of Ceri, May 9,
1566 : he is to hand over to the bearer of the brief his agent Baldo
Fabii, in order that he may take him to the Roman Inquisition,
ibid. 461 seq. ; to the Count of Tenda, December 30, 1569, with a
request to hand over to the Bishop of Ventimiglia two heretics, in
Laderchi, 1569, n. 74 ; Fontana, loc. cit. 473 ; cf. Laderchi,
1570, n. 145 seq. ; to the Duke of Savoy, April 29, 1570, on a similar
occasion, in Laderchi, 1570, n. 143 ; Fontana, 474. In a *brief
of August 30, 1567, Lodovico Pico Count of JVIirandola is asked to
deal with the imprisoned heretic Lanzoni as the Inquisitor,
Campeggio, shall order (Archives of Briefs). By order of the
Pope, Cardinal Rebiba wrote on September 11, 1568, to the Duke
of Mantua that a heretic who had already been condemned by
the Inquisitor was continuing his activities in the Duke's terri-
tory : he must be handed over to the Inquisitor, and the officials
must be told that the Duke intends to be obeyed in these matters.
There was a further admonition on November 6, 1568, on account
of certain heretics who thought themselves safe at Pavia and
Monferrato under the protection of certain influential persons
(Bertolotti, Martiri, 48 seq.) ; in like manner on June 16,