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REPRESSION OF SODOMY. 331<br />

people by provocative behaviour in liie churches and by<br />

making fun <strong>of</strong> CathoUc things.' An exception to this general<br />

tolerance occurred in <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Pius V. when, in 1570, <strong>the</strong><br />

German pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Weydecker, was brought before <strong>the</strong> In-<br />

quisition, and only released when he had abjured Protestant-<br />

ism. ^ At Padua <strong>the</strong>y contrived to evade <strong>the</strong> making <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Tridentine pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> faith, which Pius IV. had made a<br />

necessary condition for taking a doctor's degree, by conferring<br />

<strong>the</strong> academic degrees without any public ceremony, at <strong>the</strong><br />

hands <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> so-called Counts-Palatine,^ a right which Pius V.<br />

took away <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> said Counts as far as he could.<br />

According to Arco two things especially occupied <strong>the</strong> Pope<br />

in <strong>the</strong> <strong>middle</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first year <strong>of</strong> his pontificate,^ namely, his<br />

care for <strong>the</strong> Inquisition, and his struggle against " that terrible<br />

sin on account <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> dreadful judgment <strong>of</strong> God burned<br />

<strong>the</strong> cities that were infected by it "—sodomy.^ On April ist,<br />

1566, he gave orders that those guilty <strong>of</strong> sodomy were to be<br />

handed over to <strong>the</strong> secular arm,' and under Pius V. <strong>the</strong>re was<br />

1 BiAGio Bruni in A Hi del R. Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere ed<br />

arii, Ser. 7, V. (1893-94), 1015-1033. Between 1550 and 1599,<br />

5083 German students <strong>of</strong> law, and 977 <strong>of</strong> philosophy (" artisti ")<br />

were lodged at Padua ; ibid. 10 16.<br />

^ Cf. A. LuscHiN VON Ebengreuth in Zeitschvift fiir allgem.<br />

Geschichte, III. (1886), 805-817.<br />

^ Bruni, loc. cit. 1030 seqq. It is also related <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> students at<br />

Pisa in 1567 that <strong>the</strong>y made vile mockery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Catholic religion<br />

(Cantu, Eretlci, II., 437). At Siena, in April, 1566, <strong>the</strong> making<br />

<strong>of</strong> a pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> faith was demanded <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> students {Bollett.<br />

Senese, XVII, 167). <strong>The</strong> governing body <strong>the</strong>re kept a special<br />

watch on <strong>the</strong> German students {ibid. 167, 189 seqq., 195).<br />

* Edict <strong>of</strong> June i, 1568. Bull. Rom., VII., 673. *Avviso di<br />

Roma <strong>of</strong> July 17, 1568, Urb. 1040, p. 549, Vatican Library. As<br />

early as March 20, 1568, <strong>the</strong> *Avvisi {ibid. 491) report that it had<br />

been decided " che tutti che si vogliono addottorare passino per<br />

ignem et aquam."<br />

* *Arco, July 20, 1566, State Archives, Vienna.<br />

® Pius V. in a brief <strong>of</strong> August 30, 1568, Bull. Rom., VII., 702 seq.<br />

' Bull. Rom., VII., 43 ; among <strong>the</strong> *Editti, 205, <strong>the</strong>re is one<br />

against blasphemy and sodomy, dated 6 Kal. apr. 1366, Casana-<br />

tense library, RoTne.

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