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Tonina was very well informed, for the congregations he
speaks of were held in the second week of January, 1561.
The Pope, who devoted from three to four hours daily to the
study of the minutes of the trial, again gave audience to the
advocates of the Carafa ; the latter appeared to be very much
depressed, and people in general looked for a result unfavour-
able to the prisoners, even to the Cardinal ; banishment for
life at the least seemed to be his fate.^ Owing to his long
imprisonment, Carlo Carafa was hardly in a position to con-
tinue the payment of his necessary subsistence, as he, like all
other prisoners of this class, had to support himself. A
Mantuan correspondent gives details of the miserable condition
of this once so proud and tyrannical family, and recalls the
arrogance of the Cardinal during the recent conclave.
At a consistory on January 15th, 1561, the Procurator
Fiscal, Pallantieri, reported the conclusion of the proceedings,
and begged the Pope to order the Governor of the city to
present his final report, at the next consistory, as to the crimes
of which the accused had been found guilty as a result of the
investigation : sentence would then follow. Pius IV. agreed,
di meno si va discorrendo che quella gli debba durar poco, et
perche queste cose vengono di bocca et di lore che puo saper
qualche cosa, si giudica che gia sia risoluto il tutto, benche non
sia antora data la sentenza (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua). Cf.
Correspondence of Card. O. Truchsess, 229, 231.
1 *Avviso di Roma of January 11, 1561 (Urb. 1039, p. 204b-i,
Vatican Library).
^ In Fr. Tonina's *Ietter to the Duke of Mantua, dated Rome,
January 15, 1561, he says, concerning the Carafa: " Sono essi
tutti ridotti a tanta miseria, a quanto questi di mi narrava la
madre del card^^ Vitelli.che muoiono di fame, a tale che il card^*^ ha
venduto la tonicella, et con questi termini si ne passano la vita
loro, questi che al tempo del zio erano tanto orgogliosi et superbi
et particolarmente poi intendo il detto card^® ch' era nel conclave,
come se li altri cardinali 'tutti fussero stati suoi servitori."(Conzaga
Archives, Mantua). Cf. in Appendix No. 12, the *report of
Tonina of February 22, 1561. Bondonus relates, moreover,
(P- 539) that he had visited Cardinal Carafa on January 15, 1561
and had remained to dinner with him.
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