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THE NEW POPE. 45<br />

that <strong>the</strong> grief felt at his death would be greater than that<br />

which was felt at his election.^<br />

^ Catena, 24. When on January 15, 1566, <strong>the</strong> Emperor Maxi-<br />

milian II., <strong>from</strong> a letter <strong>of</strong> Cosimo de' Medici, learned <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

election <strong>of</strong> a monk, he jeered at <strong>the</strong> news (Dengel, Nuntia-<br />

turberichte, I., 33). <strong>The</strong> Viceroy <strong>of</strong> Naples, on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand,<br />

showed extraordinary joy (excessiva consolaci6n) at <strong>the</strong> election,<br />

and celebrated it with fireworks and salvos <strong>of</strong> artillery, such as<br />

had never been known at Naples at <strong>the</strong> election <strong>of</strong> a Pope.<br />

Salmeron to Borgia, January 13, 1566, in Salmeron, Epist.,<br />

II., 63.

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