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Commendone refrained from visiting Weimar, as Duke
John Frederick did not even condescend to give him a direct
answer, but merely sent him a message that " he had less
than nothing to discuss with the Roman Bishop ! " The
Elector Augustus of Saxony had provided the nuncios at
Naumburg with letters of safe-conduct for his dominions,
and expressed his regret that he had not met them in a city
belonging to him, but at an assembly for which he had had
to show some consideration. Commendone was accordingly
politely received at Leipsic by the municipal council and the
university, although the whole city was Protestant. From
Leipsic he proceeded by Magdeburg to Berlin, which he
reached on February 19th, and where he took up his residence
for a time. Pius IV. had built great hopes on the Elector
Joachim II., as he had made his personal acquaintance many
years before during the Turkish war. Joachim^ acknow-
ledged this circumstance by an almost oppressive amiability
verfasst von dem Italiener F. Ruggieri, Aix, 1914). Heiden-
heimer has also overlooked the fact that a great number of passages
had already been published in 1746 and 1756 by Lagomarsini,
De scriptis invita Minerva II., 16 seq., and in Pogiani Epist.,
II., 235 seq. Lagomarsini erroneously ascribes the itinerary to
Graziani. Concerning the account of Germany, drawn up by
Commendone after a Venetian model (in Dollinger, Beitrage,
III., 310 seq.) cf. §usTA, Kurie, It., 412. Since, of other accounts,
the monograph of Prisac, Die papstlichen Legaten Commendone
und Cappacini in Berlin (Neuss, 1846) contains nothing new, there
need only be mentioned Reimann, Commendone, 250 seq., who
(p. 273 seq.) contributes a criticism of the articles on the subject
in earlier works (Raynaldus, Pallavicini, Gratianus) and the
valuable essay of Ehses, Ein papstlicher Nuntius am Rhein,
39 seq.
1 The character sketch of the Prince Elector given by Ruggieri
in the *Viaggio mentioned in the previous note is printed in
Lagomarsini, De scriptis, II., 21 ; there is also a short description
of Berhn at that time. Concerning Brandenburg, Ruggieri says :
*Ci sono alcuni frati Franciscani che dicona la messa et i suoi
ufifitii secretamente in un monasterio, ma ci stanno con gran
paura (Chigi Library, Rome, loc. cit.).