The History of the Popes, Their Church and State and Especially of Their Conflicts with Protestantism in the Sixteenth (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...and even spoke of anathema and heresy. The " heresy " was sent them back, with interest, by the Spaniards. Parties would frequently assemble in the streets, shouting each its watchword of "Spain Spain " " Italy Italy " and blood was seen to flow on the ground that had been consecrated to the establishment of peace. For ten months it was found impossible even to proceed to a session. But could this be wondered at? or is it surprising that the first legate should dissuade the pope from going to Bologna, on the ground of the remarks that all would make, if, in spite of his presence, the council could still be conducted to no satisfactory end, but must after all be dissolved't Yet a dissolution, nay, even a suspension, or a mere translation, which had often been thought of, would have been extremely Pallavicini, XV. v. 5. Paleotto, Acta: " Alii prselati ingeminabant, clamantes, ' Exeat, exeat;' et alii, ' Anathema sit, ' ad quos Granatensia conversus respondit, ' Anathema vos estis.' "--Mendham, Memoirs of the Council of Trent, p. 251. f Lettere del C'e. di Mantua, Legato al Concilio di Trento, scritta al Papa Pio IV. li. 15 Gen. 1563: " Quando si avesse da dissolversi questo concilio, per causa d'altri e non nostra, mia piaceria piu che VTM. Beatitudine fusse restata a Roma." dangerous. In Rome they dared hope for nothing but evil; a council was there considered much too violent a remedy for the grievously debilitated constitution of the church, and all feared that ruin must ensue, both for Italy and the hierarchy. " In the beginning of the year 1563," says Girolamo Soranzo, "and but a few days before my departure, Cardinal Carpi, dean of the college, and a man of great...