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PIUS V. AND BAIANISM. 373
their views. Their private statements, and the writings of
Baius occasioned much scandal, but in their capacity as royal
theologians, and on account of the speedy closing of the
Council, they escaped condemnation.^
Although Granvelle had forbidden the two professors any
further exposition of their doctrines under pain of excom-
munication, Baius nevertheless allowed himself to be persuaded
to the false step, after his return from Trent, of publishing
some farther writings on the controverted points, and of
reprinting his earlier works. His principal adversary in the
university, Joss de Ravestein, known as Tiletanus, then
had recourse to the Augustinian Hermit, Lorenzo de Villa-
vincentio, who was highly esteemed by Philip II. Lorenzo
wrote to the king from Brussels on November 21st, 1564,with
the result that the Universities of Alcala and Salamanca
condemned a series of the propositions of Baius. ^ At the same
time Philip II. appealed for a definite decision of the con-
troversy to the Pope, to whom Tiletanus also made a report
of the case.*
Baius was not known in Rome. Granvelle, who had had to
take proceedings against him, but who was otherwise favour-
ably disposed towards him, was at that time in the Eternal
City. As Grand Inquisitor, Pius V. had had to deal with
Baianism in the time of his predecessor, and had a good
recollection of the case when Granvelle represented to him
that Baius was a learned and cultured man, and a priest of
irreproachable Ufe, who could do a great deal for the Church,
and in any case had a right to be treated with every considera-
tion.^ The Pope was very ready to take this point of view.
Learned men of various nationalities were charged to give
1 Morillon to Granvelle, June 20, 1568, in Poullet, III., 279.
' Gachard, Corresp. de Philippe II., II., xx.
* Le Bachelet, II., 41, 47. No particulars of this condemna-
tion are known.
* Ibid. 48. Cf. the letter of Villavincentio of 1571 in Gachakd,
loc. cit. 174.
106.
* Granvelle to Morillon, November 13, 1567, in Poullet, III.,