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

THE CASE OF CARRANZA. 363
remark was certainly added because Zufiiga had attributed
the divergence between the Spanish views of Carranza to
the fact that the learned men in Rome were canonists and not
theologians.^ According to the view held in Rome it was
certainly the business of the theologians to decide whether a
proposition were orthodox or not, but whether a man was to be
considered a heretic because of an heretical statement was the
business of the canonists. Zuniga also had to hear from the
Pope's own lips that the authors of these opinions were not
fit to form a judgment, because they paid attention only to
the words used, and did not take into consideration the context
or the meaning of the writer ;2 these much discussed writings
undoubtedly contained real heresies.^
The Spanish opinions, however, were not without their
effect on Pius V. He became perplexed, and had the opinions
carefully examined, with the result that the final decision was
again postponed. Such was Zuiiiga's account of the situation
in April, 1571,^ and in July of the same year the Pope himself
delle parole che di quelle che habbia inteso per quelle parole
Tautore o scrittore ; e che a voler vedere il sense dell'autere
cenvien ponderare la scrittura precedente et subsequente ;
perche
in quella maniera che hanno censurato quelle si potrebbe censurare
ancera S. Agostine et altri Santi Catt. Dottori, prendendo le lor
parole trencate." Corresp. dipl. III. 514.
1 Ibid. IV., xvi.
- " Dixo que no saDen qualificar ios theologos que las [the
qualifications] ban heche, perque hechan mane de las palabras
y no del sentido que se puede coUegir que tuvo el author en teda
la ebra." Zuiliga to Philip II., July 13, 1571, ibid. 388. " Tedo
el fundamento de lo que se allega per parte del Ar9ebispe consiste
en decir que si bien se halian en el Catecisme y en sus cartapacies
muchas opiniones hereticas, que en estas mismas obras se vera que
donde tratt6 de proposite cada materia, la declare cathelicamente,
y que este prueva el buen anime del author." Ibid. 389.
^ Ibid. 473.
* " que le aperitan mucho las calificaciones que de alia se
embiaren, que las hace ver con diligentia, y asi la resolucion ira
mas a la larga de lo que se pensaba." Zuniga, April 20, 1571,
ibid. xxii.