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SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT. 333<br />

purpose whatever.- During <strong>the</strong> humanist period, when <strong>the</strong><br />

study <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> occult played so great a part,^ this side <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

activities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition must have been speciall)' import-<br />

ant, but we know very little about it. In 1568 <strong>the</strong> tribunal <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> faith at Pavia was engaged upon <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> a magician<br />

who, by means <strong>of</strong> astrology, divination and alchemy, claimed<br />

to be able to discover hidden treasure, and was engaged in<br />

compiling, toge<strong>the</strong>r with o<strong>the</strong>r people, a manual <strong>of</strong> magic.<br />

In that same year five o<strong>the</strong>r persons were accused before <strong>the</strong><br />

Inquisition <strong>of</strong> witchcraft.^ During <strong>the</strong> reign <strong>of</strong> Pius V.<br />

several witches were condenmed in Rome,"* Milan, ^ and else-<br />

where.^<br />

'It is evident <strong>from</strong> various sources that. even under Pius V.<br />

<strong>the</strong> Inquisition did not confine itself to questions <strong>of</strong> faith alon^.<br />

Ciregiola on September i&, 1568, *wrote to Cardinal F. do' Medici<br />

that <strong>the</strong> Cardinal Inquisitors had persuaded Pius V. that it was<br />

his duty to undertake some far-reaching enterprise against <strong>the</strong><br />

Huguenots, and to add some new saints to <strong>the</strong> Breviary (State<br />

Archives, Florence). An *Avviso di Rcma <strong>of</strong> April i, 1570 (Urb.<br />

1041, p. 251, Vatican Library) tells <strong>of</strong> a meeting <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition<br />

on account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Emperor's protest. An adulterer was handed<br />

over to <strong>the</strong> Inquisition : *Cusano, INIarch 2, 1566, State Archives,<br />

Vienna.<br />

^ FUMI, L' Inquisizione, 72 seqq.<br />

^ Ettore Rota in Bollett. Pavese, VII. (1907), 20 seq.<br />

• See sitpra p. 3 1 2, n. i . A sorceress was imprisoned by <strong>the</strong> Roman<br />

Inquisition in 1569 for having foretold to <strong>the</strong> Pope his coming<br />

death and to Cardinal Mula <strong>the</strong> tiara (*Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> Decem-<br />

ber 24, 1569, Urb. 1041, p. 206b, Vatican Library). *" Frustrate<br />

5 vecchie in Roma fattucchiate " (August 6, 1569, ibid. ii6b).<br />

^ *Brief <strong>of</strong> September 10, 1569, to <strong>the</strong> Senate <strong>of</strong> Milan concerning<br />

witches condemned by <strong>the</strong> archiepiscopal tribunal. Brevia, Arm.<br />

44, t.14, p. 224, Papal Secret Archives.<br />

" A woman was accused <strong>of</strong> witchcraft at Cocconato in Piedmont<br />

" Margaritam Allamanam . . . deviasse a<br />

on August 31, 1569 :<br />

fide Christi catholicaque religione et ministeriis sacrosanctae<br />

ecclesiae, retro post satanam conversam daemonum illusionibus et<br />

fantasmatibus seductam eius iussionibus obedire, ad eiusque<br />

servitium revocari ad cursum ; et publice vociferatur, ut vulgo<br />

dicitur, eam esse mascham." (Ferd. Gabotto, Valdesi, Catari e

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