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DELFINO AND THE EMPEROR. 205
Zaccaria Delfino, who had been entrusted with the mission
to Ferdinand I., arrived in Vienna on September 28th, and was
received in audience by the Emperor on tlie following day.
Ferdinand greeted him as an old friend,^ but did not show
himself inclined to deviate in any essential point from his
demands. He defined his standpoint in a written reply to the
Pope, 2 which was expressed, indeed, in polite and submissive
terms, but in reality made no advances. Now, as before, he
persisted in his claim that the Council must be convoked as a
new one, while he still maintained his objections to Trent as
the place of assembly. Although, for his own part, he had
nothing to urge against a continuation at Trent, he did this
out of consideration for the Protestants, who otherwise could
not be induced to take part in the Council, and also on account
of those powers, such as France, who did not accept the previ-
ous assembly, or had not been represented at it. In connection
with his expression of satisfaction at the Pope's reform work
in Rome, the Emperor, in conclusion, recalled the concessions
which he desired with regard to the chalice for the laity and
the marriage of priests. It is true that he declared that
he was also convinced that these points could best be dealt
with at a General Council, but in view of the many difficulties
which in the meantime stood in the way of its convocation, he
again recommended the consideration of these concessions to
His Holiness.
On October 8th the Emperor received the report of his
ambassador in Rome concerning the declaration made by
the Pope on September 23rd. At the same time Borromeo's
instructions to Delfino of September 24th arrived, whereupon
the latter immediately requested an audience for Hosius
1 Cf. the report of Delfino and Hosius, dated Vienna, October 3,
1560, in Steinherz, I., 123 seq.
^ Text first published from the papers of Staphylus by Schel-
HORN, Amoenit., II., 479 seq., then in Le Plat, IV., 637 seqq.,
and from the Papal Secret Archives by Ehses, VIII., 79 seqq.
Cf. Sickel, Konzil, 98 seq. ; Reimann, Unterhandlungen, 609 ;
Voss, 115 seq. ; Steinherz, I., Ixxxiii se^. ; Eder, I., 58 ; Ehses,
Berufung des Konzils, 18,