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ATTEMPT TO ELECT MORONE. 29
calmness and dignity, that it could not fail to increase the
respect in which he was hcld.^ What had been most harmful
to him was undoubtedly his trial before the Inquisition. " If
his reputation had not been thus tarnished," says Requesens,
" he would have had a greater following than any other
Cardinal. I do not know how this can be, everyone admits
Morone's great qualities, yet when an attempt was made to
elect him there was general uneasiness, and much joy when
he was excluded."^ The hostility of the Duke of Florence
was very disadvantageous to him, and the Spanish ambassador
was of opinion that Morone would have become Pope if the
adherents of Cosimo had supported him.^
At first Borromeo tried to hold to the candidature of
Morone, and to gain for him the votes still required. He was
not successful in this, but even lost some of his twenty-nine
Farnese, Trento, Madruzzo." (Letter of Camillo Luzzara to the
Duke of Mantua, December 29, 1565, Gonzaga Archives, Mantua).
In HiLLiGER, 128, a list of the conclave adds to the twenty names
given by Luzzara that of the elder Pisani. Cf. Concini, December
29, 1565, in Petrucelli, 191 seq., where Crispi is missing and the
name of Sermoneta is given instead of Saraceni, and Reims (!)
instead of Reumano. In his *reports to Commendone Caligari
states (December 29, 1565) that there were 22 steady votes against
Morone, among whom were all the Cardinals of Paul IV., and
especially Ghisheri. Simonetta, Cicada and Delfino were steadily
for Morone. In the meantime everything will drag on because
Farnese and Este are waiting for replies from Spain and France
(Papal Secret Archives). After December 26 *Caligari states
that Morone's success was impossible ;
" La cosa e piu intrigata
che fosse mai " {ibid).
1 *" Mostro Moron is questa attione constantia notabile et si
porto talmente che fu giudicato virtuosissimo " (anonymous re-
port to Maximilian II. of January 5, 1566, State Archives, Vienna).
" El lo pas6 todo con grandissima prudencia ye disimula9ion sin
mostrar gana de ser Papa, antes de lo contrario." Pacheco,
loc. cit., 96.
* Requesens to Philip IL, December 30, 1565, Corresp. dipl.,
I., 65.
^ Ibid.