From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

Chapter 4
Pope Clement and
the Nuremberg Diet
ADRIAN was dead. His scheme for the reform
of the Papacy, with all the hopes and fears it had
excited, descended with him to the grave. Cardinal
Guilio de Medici, an unsuccessful candidate at the
last election, had better fortune this time, and now
mounted the Pontifical throne. The new Pope, who
took the title of Clement VII., made haste to
reverse the policy of his predecessor. Pallavicino
was of opinion that the greatest evils and dangers
of the Papacy had arisen from the choice of a
"saint" to fill the Papal chair.
Clement VII. took care to let the world know
that its present occupant was a "man of affairs"–no
austere man, with neither singing nor dancing in
his palace; no senile dreamer of reforms; but one
who knew both to please the Romans and to
manage foreign courts. "But it is in the storm that
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