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128 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
extraordinary powers to his Vicar in Rome, Cardinal Savelli,
and to the bishops and superiors of ordsrs, to decide in the name
of the Pope matters in dispute concerning the " apostates "
and those monks wlio had entered other orders. These were
obliged within six months to submit their dispensations to the
duly qualified judge and obey his decision.
It is characteristic of conditions in the Curia that as soon
as the pressure exercised by Paul IV. had been removed, the
evil elements immediately wakened once more into activity,^
but if anyone thought that the work of reform had come to a
standstill under the new Pope, he was grievously mistaken.
Pius IV. declared quite openly that what had been tolerated in
the time of Leo X. would no longer be allowed.^ When he
confirmed the election capitulation on January 12th, 1560, he
announced his intention of carrying out as Pope the thing
that appeared the most necessary to all persons of discernment,
namely, the taking seriously in hand of the questions of reform
and the Council. He also spoke to the same effect at his
first consistory, held on the same day,^ and announced that
a commission for the " reform of morals " would be appointed
even before the meeting of the Council. Of this Cardinals
Tournon, Carpi, Morone, Madruzzo, Cueva, Saraceni, Puteo,
Cicada, Dolera, Savelli, Alessandro Farnese, Santa Flora,
^ BuUarium Rom., VIII., 15 seqq. To the decrees concerning
the residence of the bishops, Pius IV. held firmly [of. besides the
Acta consist.. Papal Secret Archives, the *Avvisi di Roma of
January 27, February 10 and 17, and March 9, 1560, Urb. 1039,
pp. 122, 127, 128, 132, 135b ; see also Chapter IV. infra), but
with regard to the Regressi, on the other hand, he showed con-
siderable indulgence. Cf. *Avvisi di Roma of January 13 and 20,
February 10, and March 2, 1560 (Urb. 1039, pp. 117, 120, 127,
134, Vatican Library). See also Mocenigo, 29.
" Roma torna sa la
2 *Avviso di Roma of January 20, 1560 :
pristina liberta. Le puttane cominciano andar in cocchio al
solito " (Urb. 1039, p. 120b, Vatican Library). G/. Mocenigo, 36.
^ See Dembinski, Wybor Piusa IV., 286.
* See *Acta consist. Cancell., VIII. , i (Consistorial Archives
of the Vatican). Cf. Dollinger, Beitrage, I., 328, and the
*report of Ricasoli of January 12, 1560 (State Archives, Florence).
^