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PALIANO GETURNS TO ROME. I43
fear as the fact that the old enemy of his house, Giovanna
d'Aragona Colonna, who had been obliged to fly in disguise
from Rome four years before, now made a triumphal entry
into the city, many of the Romans, including the guard and
the relatives of the Pope, going to meet her. On the following
day she had an audience of ceremony.^
On June 6th the Duke of Pahano also leturned to Rome.
In consequence of favourable news from Spain both he and
his brother the Cardinal were in the best of spirits ; in the
evening they amused themselves with music and dancing
in the company of loose women.-
A secret consistor}^ had been arranged to take place in
the Vatican on the morning of June 7th. ^ This was held
in the apartment situated between the Appartimento Borgia
and the Sala Ducale, which is now called the Sala Guardaroba.
The Cardinals were awaiting the appearance of the Pope
when Aurelio Spina, a chamberlain of Cardinal Borromeo,
89 seq. The arrest of del Monte, accoixling to Massarelli, in
Merkle, II., 345, was " ob duo homicidia suis manibus perpetrata
in civitate Nucerina in Umbria, in personam scilicet patris et
filii ibi magistri cursorum, dum sede vacante Pauli IV. ex Venetiis
Urbem citatis equis reverteretur." See also Mula's *reports
of May 27, June i, and July 20, 1560. Cf. further the *Avvisi
di Roma of June t, 15, and 29 (Urb. 1039, pp. 162, 169, 176, Vatican
Library) and Mula's *reports of May 27 and 31, and June i, 1560
(Court Library, Vienna).
1 See the *report of G. B. Ricasoli of June 5, 1 560, State Archives
Florence. *Avviso di Roma of June 8, 1560 (Urb. 1039, p. 165a,
Vatican Library). Massarelli, 346. Concerning the flight of
Giovanna, see Vol. XIV. of this work, p. iii.
- See in Appendix No. 7, the *Avviso di Roma of June 8, 1560
(Vatican Library).
^ See for what follows, Ricasoli's *report of June 7, 1560, in
Appendix No. 6. Cf. *Acta consist. Cancel!., VIII, 38, and
*Acta consist. Cam., IX., 22b (Consistorial Archives of the Vatican,
Appendix No. 5) further Massarelli, 3^6 ; Bondonus, 534 seq. ;
the report of the Portuguese ambassador of June 12, 1560 in
the Corpo. dipl. Portug., VIII., 470, seq. : Pogiani Epist , II.,
220 ;
correspondence of Card, O, Truchsess, 172 seq.