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THE pope's zeal FOR THE INQUISITION. 343<br />

against <strong>the</strong> Turks ;^ <strong>the</strong> prisons, he says, are full <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m,^<br />

so that <strong>the</strong>y are far too small,^ and again in September Arco<br />

repeats that <strong>the</strong> Pope is extremely scrupulous about all<br />

that concerns <strong>the</strong> Inquisition.* <strong>The</strong> Spanish ambassador,<br />

Requesens, also wrote in July, 1566, that <strong>the</strong> Pope had not<br />

so far been absent <strong>from</strong> a single session <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition,^<br />

although <strong>the</strong>se were held at least once a week, and sometimes<br />

two or three times ;^ moreover, <strong>the</strong> Pope's view is always<br />

most practical and severe,' and carries <strong>the</strong> day even against<br />

<strong>the</strong> votes <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> Cardinals.^ It was said in Rome in<br />

February, 1568, that <strong>the</strong> Pope was thinking <strong>of</strong> following <strong>the</strong><br />

example <strong>of</strong> Paul IV. by appointing a Grand Inquisitor ;^<br />

during Lent he would not hold consistories in order that an<br />

extra session <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition might be held each week.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se extraordinary sessions had been called for by <strong>the</strong> case<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> unhappy Archbishop <strong>of</strong> Toledo, Bartolome Carranza,^"<br />

whose trial Pius V. had called to Rome.<br />

1 *Aico, October 13, 1567, State Archives, Vienna.<br />

- *ibid. May lo, 1567.<br />

^ *ibid. November 22, 1567,<br />

* " *scrupolosissimo " ; ibid. September 11, 1568.<br />

^To Philip II., July 4, 1566, Corresp. dipl., I., 288.<br />

" To Philip II., September 18, 1566, ibid. 350.<br />

" Ibid. See also <strong>the</strong> following note.<br />

* " Eu las cosas de Inquisicion se haze siempre lo que el Papa<br />

vota aunque sea contra el parecer de los cardenales, y el vote de<br />

S.S. diz que es el mejor y mas riguroso que ninguiio de los otros."<br />

To Phihp II., May 17, 1567, Corresp. dipl. II. 115.<br />

9 *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> February 14, 1568, Urb. 1040, p. 487,<br />

Vatican Library.<br />

^'^ Ibid. On June 7, 1567 *B. Pia wrote to Luzzara :<br />

"Due<br />

congregationi si fanno hora ogni settimana inanzi a N. S. di<br />

ordinario per la S' Inquisitione. II lunedi et questa sola per<br />

la causa de I'arcivescovo di Toledo. II giovedi I'ordinaria, non<br />

si potria dire con quanta ansia et diligenza S. B"^ attenda a<br />

questo." (State Archives, Mantua). Cf. *Serristori, February<br />

13, 1567. State Archives, Florence, Medic. 3287.

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