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of his shocking cruelty and self-seeking, had suddenly died.
The Cardinal, as head of the family, returned to Milan at the
beginning of December to see to the inheritance, which duty,
combined with an attack of gout, kept him there till the
spring of 1556. ^ He was back again in Rome in April, where
he found himself, as an opponent of the war party, in a painful
and, at last, in a dangerous position.^ On the other hand,
his importance was a good deal increased by this, as his friend,
the Duke of Florence, did not fail to give prominence, at the
court of Brussels, to the services which Cardinal Medici had
rendered by his opposition to the war.^ Medici's relations
with Paul IV. which had been tolerably friendly"* at the
beginning of his pontificate, had now, owing to this attitude,
become exactly the reverse, and this was not altered after the
Peace of Cave. The fact that events had proved that his words
of warning had been justified, did not improve the temper
of the self-assured Carafa. The strict government of the
^Cf. Sylvain, I., 31; SusTA, Pius IV., 47. Besides the
*letters of the Cardinal to C. Carafa and Morone in the *Cod.
Barb., LXI., 7 (formerly 5698) and *Vat 6407 (Vatican Library)
cited by Susta, we also find in the Archives of the Count Waldburg
of Hohenems a series of *original letters from Cardinal Medici
to the Hohenems family, which are not wholly restricted to
family matters, e.g. the *letters of January 14, 24, and 25, and
March 4, 1556.
2 On August 28, 1556, the Cardinal made his will. In this he
recommends his soul to God, asserts his Catholic faith, in which
he wishes to die, and desires to be buried without pomp ; if his
death takes place in Rome, he wishes to be buried in 8. Pietro
in Montorio, if in Milan, in the Ospedale Maggiore. This hospital
is named as his residuary legatee. Then follow legacies for his
brother Agostino (the Castle of Melegnano and its contents), for
the Altemps, Borromei, Serbelloni, his sister Chiara, etc. An
addition in his own hand is dated September 14, 1556. I owe
my knowledge of this will to the Prefect of the Vatican, Mgr.
Ratti. [Now his Holiness Pope Pius XI. Ed.]
* Cf. Susta, Pius IV., 48, 58, 62. Concerning Medici's opposi-
tion cf. Vol. XIV. of this work, p. 136.
* See Susta, 47.