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28<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

worked like ten men to secure Morone's exclusion.^ Sermon-<br />

eta, Rovere and o<strong>the</strong>rs were equally active, and <strong>the</strong>y were<br />

successful in collecting <strong>the</strong> needful number <strong>of</strong> votes against<br />

Morone.<br />

Before day dav/ned <strong>the</strong> business <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> election was recom-<br />

menced. Many insisted that <strong>the</strong> Master <strong>of</strong> Ceremonies should<br />

ring <strong>the</strong> bell for mass at once, so that <strong>the</strong>y might get to <strong>the</strong><br />

voting and finish <strong>the</strong> election as quickly as possible, but <strong>the</strong><br />

Cardinals in charge <strong>of</strong> such matters protested, and mass was<br />

accordingly celebrated at <strong>the</strong> usual hour, and <strong>the</strong> voting <strong>the</strong>n<br />

took place. It was soon obvious that Borromeo was mistaken<br />

in thinking that he could count on thirty-nine votes.- Only<br />

twenty-six electors declared <strong>the</strong>mselves for Morone, nor did<br />

it m.ake any difference when Sforza, Orsini, and Guido Ferreri<br />

successively gave <strong>the</strong>ir accessus, for five votes were still<br />

wanting, since, with fifty-one electors, <strong>the</strong> two-thirds majority<br />

was thirty-four votes.<br />

<strong>The</strong> principal opponents <strong>of</strong> Morone were <strong>the</strong> two Este and<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir friends, all those who had received <strong>the</strong> purple <strong>from</strong><br />

Paul IV., Morone's great enemy, some <strong>of</strong> Borromeo's Car-<br />

dinals, and lastly, though Farnese himself gave his vote to<br />

Morone, tifido honoris, Farnese's party, some <strong>of</strong> whom were,<br />

actuated by personal dislike, o<strong>the</strong>rs because <strong>the</strong>y would not<br />

give up <strong>the</strong>ir own hopes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tiara, and o<strong>the</strong>rs on account <strong>of</strong><br />

religious scruples, and <strong>the</strong>ir recollection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> trial <strong>of</strong> Morone<br />

before <strong>the</strong> Inquisition.^ Twenty-one votes were thus cast<br />

against Morone, whereas eighteen were sufficient to exclude<br />

him.* Morone bore <strong>the</strong> shipwreck <strong>of</strong> his hopes with so much<br />

^ This refers to <strong>the</strong> young Luigi d'Este, '" qual'dtre I'ardir del<br />

sangue si faceva pronto per gli ammaestramenti del cardinal di<br />

Ferrara suo zio " (Conclavi de' Pontefici, 172). <strong>The</strong> elder Este<br />

was lying ill in bed.<br />

* Pacheco, loc. cit., 96.<br />

'Ibid. HiLLiGER, 125 seq.<br />

* *" A I'esclusione di Morone sono corsi questi : Ferrara, Man-<br />

tova Este, Savello, Pisa, Urbino, Crispo, Gambara, Correggio,<br />

Reumano. Padova, Simoncello, Capisucco, Saraceno, Alessandrino,<br />

Coruaro, Vitello, Araceli, Salviati, Aragona. Ritirati da Morone :

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