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on a little bier, which was covered with a black, gold-
embroidered cloth, beside the statue to the Apostle St. Paul
at the entrance to the bridge ; at his right, on the ground,
on miserable rags, lay his brother-in-law, and at his left,
Lionardo di Cardine. Only in the evening were the bodies,
hke those of ordinary criminals, taken by the Brothers of the
Misericordia to S. Giovanni Decollato, and finally buried in
the church of the Minerva, in the family chapel of the Annun-
ciata. The body of Cardinal Carafa was also taken later to
this church, and buried in the same chapel.^
A light placed on the summit of the Castle of St. Angelo
informed Pius IV. of the carrying out of the sentence ; his
severity caused terror on every side.^ Many in Rome blamed
the Pope for having been too harsh ; it was especially found
fault with that the Cardinal had been put to death hke the
rest, and that the bodies of the three others, though they had
deserved to die, should have been buried like ordinary
criminals.^ For several days fears were entertained for
the lives of the three other Cardinals who were still in
the Castle of St. Angelo,'* but the representative of Cosimo I.
^Cf. *Giustiziati, III., p. 169b, in the Archives of S. Giovanni
Decollato. There (p. 169) we read concerning the execution :
*Li retro e sopranominati cioe il sig^ ducha di Paliano il sig^
conte d' AUffe, '1 sig"" don Leonardo di Cardines, a uno a uno
furno condotti dabasso nel cortile di Torre di Nona e li talliatoU
la testa dalle hore nove sino a hore XI incircha giovedi addi 6 di
marzo e poi furno condotti in Ponte e lassati fino a ore XV incircha,
e poi si fecieno portare alia nostra chiesia dove venne oltra e' 30
deputati alcuni altri delli nostri fratelli e assai bono numero ; e
per tale exeque si prese otto preti oltre il nostro capellano (State
Archives, Rome).
^ See the dispatches of the ambassadors in Ancel, Disgrace,
159 ; Istoria di Chiusi in Tartinius, Script., I., 1078.
^ See Vargas in Dollinger, Beitrage, I., 362 ; Sfondrato,
loc. cit., 359, and the report of the Portuguese ambassador of
March 6, 1561, in the Corpo dipl. Portug., IX., 195.
* See in Appendix No. 17 the *report of Fr. Tonina of March 8,
1 561 (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua) and the *Avvisi di Roma of
March 22 and 29, April 18, May 3 and 31, 1561 (Urb. 1039, pp.
261b, 265b, 268, 271, 278b, Vatican Librarj^). Cf. Bondonus, 540.