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of abstinence,^ and on Good Friday he would take nothing
cooked at all.^
The Pope found his chief dehght in prayer, and his fervour
often moved him to tears. ^ Every time that he had to come
to an important decision he prayed with special fervour.*
As soon as he had concluded his official duties he returned
to his spiritual exercises,^ and during Holy Week he retired
altogether, so as to give himself up entirely to mxcditation on
the Passion of Christ,^ and since his special devotion was to
the Crucified,' Pius V. is represented in most of his pictures
with a crucifix in his hands.
1 " *jj Papa fa grand' astinentia, fa la quaresima et digiuna ogni
giorno et ha comandato espressamente a quelli, che hanno cura
della bocca sua, che guardino per quanto hanno cura la sua gratia
de non alterarli li brodi con istilati o altro, publicando che saranno
escomunicati oltre le pene arbitrarie se uscirano del sue comandamento
" (Awise di Roma of February 22, 1567, Urb. 1040, p. 362b,
Vatican Library). Cf. the *report of B. Pia of December 20, 1567,
Gonzaga Archives, Mantua. See also Marini, II., 319. As
Pope, Pius V. kept the cook whom he had had as Cardinal ;
Moroni, XXIII., 77. The title of " cuoco segreto di Pio V."
was also borne by Bartolomeo Scappi, who, since he had no oppor-
tunity of putting his office to practical use, used his skill theoreti-
cally in a very widely sold cookery book (Opera, Venice, 1570,
1596, 1605). Cf. HtjBNER, Sixtus v., II., 138 seq. ; Rodoca-
NACHi, Rome, 48.
* See in App. n. 9 the *Avviso di Roma of April 13, 1566,
Vatican Library.
* TiEPOLO, 172. PoLANCi Epist. in Anal. Bolland., VII., 46.
* See Gratiani Epist., 379.
5 Cf. the *Avviso di Roma of January 26, 1566, Urb. 1040, p.
170b, Vatican Library.
* Cf. Tiepolo in Mutinelli, I., 40.
7 " *s. Pius V. una cum S. Carlo Borromeo coemiterium
visitare et ante crucifixi imaginem, quae in capella Campi Sancti
summa ab antiquis temporibus veneratione coUtur, preces
fundere consuevisse vetera confraternitatis monumenta tradi-
derunt," reports the Historia Campi Sancti, MS. in the Archives
of that Confraternity.
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