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390<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

Don Antonio Caraffa et il ligiiuolo del duca di Paliano et anco<br />

sig. Matteo Stendardo, ai quali dice volersi mostrar grate.<br />

Quelli che govemano hora sono Famese, Vitelli, Pisa et<br />

Reumano. Fa venir anco a Roma il duca Ottavio per dar<br />

grandezze alie cose. He has made Vitelli governor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Borgo, <strong>the</strong> bro<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Cardinal and General <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Knights<br />

<strong>of</strong> Orsino, " in somma grandissima liberalita " ; he has<br />

restored his apartments to Cardinal Urbino, and given him<br />

<strong>the</strong> bishopric <strong>of</strong> Montefeltro, he has given 40 poor Cardinals<br />

500 scudi, and 100 scudi a month to each, 10 scudi to <strong>the</strong><br />

conclavists, 4 to his servants 50 to Count Hannibal d'Altemps,<br />

and 200 to each Auditor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Rota. He has given Famese<br />

<strong>the</strong> direction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Segnatura, and will assign to him <strong>the</strong><br />

" stanze di Torre Borgia." He is retaining some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

" famiglia " <strong>of</strong> Pius IV., and is replacing many by creatures<br />

<strong>of</strong> Paul IV.; a thing which makes o<strong>the</strong>rs, especially Marcan-<br />

tonio Colonna, jealous, since <strong>the</strong> Carafa have been recalled,<br />

but this is a vain fear " perche non si mostra vendicativo sin<br />

hora. Vuol pagare tutti i debiti di Paolo IV et vol fornir la<br />

fortificatione di Borgo, et questa mattina si ha cominciato a<br />

lavorare et anco finira le fabriche di Belvedere." This morn-<br />

ing <strong>the</strong>re was a General Congregation " per consolar i car-<br />

dinali " : he listened to each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m and granted aU <strong>the</strong><br />

favours asked for so long as <strong>the</strong>y were not to <strong>the</strong> disadvantage<br />

<strong>of</strong> third parties ; he <strong>the</strong>n caused all to go out except <strong>the</strong><br />

Cardinals, whom he thanked saying to <strong>the</strong>m, " che non li<br />

vuole tener per servitori ma per frateUi ; " and published <strong>the</strong><br />

day <strong>of</strong> St. Antony, his birthday (in his 62nd year) as <strong>the</strong> day<br />

<strong>of</strong> his coronation. " Da tutti questi indicii si raccoglie che<br />

siamo per haver un buon Papa, et dove la nova della sua<br />

creatione spavento tutta Roma, per esser frate et di<br />

S. Domenico, cosi le sue attioni fanno giubilar tutti et ciascun<br />

li prega longa vita et sanita, della quale ha bisogno patendo<br />

di renella grandemente, et essendo mal complessionato."<br />

Ha perdonato a Morone, che adorandolo poi avrebbe detto :<br />

" Dimitte nobis debita nostra, gli rispose in generalibus "<br />

e lo ha benedetto. " Ha trovato I'introito molto felice,<br />

essendo da conferir in beneficii piii di 200 sc. et trovato in<br />

Castello da 800. Ha detto di voler deputar 3 cardinali,<br />

quali habbino a conferir tutti li beneficii vacati et che vacaranno,<br />

sicome era a tempo di Paulo IV, et aUe cose temporali<br />

vuole deputar alcuni altri cardinali, volendo lu solo attendere

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