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alienatis *' are so strict that many are complaining of them.
The Pope has ordered a mitigation. Ibid. 343.
October 18 : Tlie bull concerning the " fabrica di S. Pietro "
has greatly restricted the powers of the commissaries. Ihid.
357-
January 6 : On
1571-
Wednesday Hghtning struck the campanile
of St. Peter's and did a great deal of damage. Urb. 1042, p. 2.
II. Discoveries during the building of St. Peter's.
Cf. as to these Armellini, 281 and Lanciani, IV., 7. As
to the tiles of the church of St. Peter's bearing the arms
and name of Pius V., see Mel. d'archeol., VIII., 454.
67. Cardinal Santori and His Audiences with Pius V.^
There are few Cardinals of the XVIth century concerning
whose lives we have such detailed information as of Giulio
Antonio Santori, who was bom at Caserta in 1532, and was for
the most part known as the Cardinal of Santa Severina (also
as Sanseverino) from his archiepiscopal see in Calabria.^
Held in high esteem by all his contemporaries on account of
his holy life, his zeal for the cause of the Church, and his
widespread activities, Santori has nevertheless so far found
no biographer. This eminent Prince of the Church, who was
buried in the Lateran basilica, is in every way deserving of a
special monograph : if his early life is of interest, this is still
more the case with his cardinalate of 32 years (1570 to 1602),
during which he took part in six conclaveS; and on two
occasions came near to attaining to the supreme dignity.
Santori, who was the friend and counsellor of seven Popes,
has himself described in great detail a great part of his life.
His autobiography is marked by its great detail and its love
of the truth. He does not conceal the defects of his own
period of crisis, and he describes with touching simplicity
his permanent return to a genuinely Christian life. Some
passages will remain indelibly fixed in the mind of every
reader, e.g. his description of his first departure from Rome,'
and the expression of his sentiments when he had to give up
* See supra, p. 107 n. 3.
' SiCKEL (Berichte, I., 12) treats of Santori and Sanseverino as two distinct
persons.
" Autobiografia, XII., 232 seq.