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

APPENDIX. 423
account given by Catena (p. 171) of the promises which
Charles IX. made in 1571 to Cardinal BoneUi, informing the
Pope that he was arranging the marriage of his sister with
Navarre with the sole purpose of being able the more easily
to destroy the leaders of the Huguenots, and further making
the advice of the Pope responsible for this plan.
In a much more cautious and reserved way are these matters
dealt with by the second biographer of Pius V., Giov. Antonio
Gabuzio, rector of the Bamabite College in Rome, in his work,
" De vita et rebus gestis Pii V.," which was first published
in Rome in 1605, and dedicated to Paul V. Here there is no
mention at all of the statements of Catena concerning the
assurance given by Charles IX. that the marriage of his sister
to Navarre had the sole purpose of giving the Huguenots
in Paris a sense of security, and that he decided on taking
action against the " traitors " principally from love of the
Pope. On the other hand, Gabuzio expressly states that
the king had declared that he could no longer conceal his
intentions, and that BonelU had gone away without having
obtained anything.
If Gabuzio is in this matter the more reliable informant,
this is explained by the fact that he was helped by Cardinal
BoneUi in the composition of his work much more than
Catena. As Gabuzio relates in the dedication of his work to
Paul v., it was that Cardinal who persuaded him to compose
it, and furnished him with the materials. The difference
here mentioned is all the more important in that in other
matters Gabuzio follows Catena closely, and further, as Turke
rightly points out (p. 29), shows a tendency to embeUish
and exaggerate his accounts. It is only in details that
Gabuzio gives any new information ; it is not easy to distin-
guish them because Gabuzio treads so closely in the footsteps
of Catena,^ whom, strangely enough, he does not name,
that his text in many places reads like a translation.^
If Gabuzio met with a much wider success than Catena, so
much so that Theiner (Annal. eccles., 1572, n. 12) wrongly
' Thus for example concerning the success of tlie action taken by Pius V.
against the French iieretical bisliops, he saj^s : " Kain daninationem in Galliam
promuteandam iisque do sede deiectis alios catholicos subrogandos Pius curavit."
(II. c. 3).
• In the preface he merely says that his work was " cum ex aliis multis ac
probatis a\ictoribus, turn ex variis ac certis, riuae idem cardinalis [M. Bonelli]
ceteritpie mnlti locupietes et oculati testes mihi suppeditanint, monumentis
ac testimoniis bona fide collectum." The severe bl;i.me of Mkndham (p. x.-xi.),
for his not havin? made mention of Catena, is fully deserved.