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CHAPTER IV.
W E must now return to Rome, over which a
" sea of troubles " had swept since we left it
with Giovanni de Medici in the Papal Chair. The
Vatican no longer resounded with song and music,
the echoes of which were heard through the
city as a call to joy and gladness. Its doors
were no longer open to all the poets, scholars,
singers, and buffoons of Rome. Raphael was no
longer immortalizing his munificent patron and his
Cardinals by painting their portraits on its walls.
Pomp and pagentry had given place to woe and
desolation. Amid the worldliness of Leo's Court
insufficient heed was taken of the storm-laden clouds
which had been gathering in Germany and Switzerland.
Leo's successor, however, the ship carpenter's
son of Utrecht, who ascended the throne as Adrian·
XL, failed not to observe that they were fast rolling
towards the Eternal City, and hoped to avert the
threatened danger by reversing the course of his
predecessor. Painters, poets, and musicians, together
with the vast retinue of servants belonging to the