The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

252 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
On April 6th, the Easter Sunday of 1561, on which da\^ the
Council should have been opened, there were only four bishops,
but none of the legates, present in Trent. ^ On April i6th
Cardinals Gonzaga and Seripando made their solemn entry into
the city of the Council, being welcomed only by the Bishop
of Trent, Cardinal Madruzzo, and nine other bishops.^ The
indulgence of March 21st had been previously promulgated
on April 12th. There could be no question of opening the
Council at once, for the number of prelates at Trent increased
but slowly during the following months.^ On April 21st
the legates wrote to Borromeo that the Pope again should
exhort the prelates in Rome to start soon, so that those in
other countries might the more quickly make up their minds.*
The arrival, on May i8th, of the distinguished Archbishop of
Braga, Bartolomeo de Martyribus, as the " first born of the
ultramontane nations " was joyfully acclaimed ;
he informed
the legates that three or four more bishops from Portugal,
and the envoy of the king, .would soon follow.^ The Pope
was particularly touched and gladdened at this news.®
The negotiations with the powers were still going on. As
the discussions with Don Juan de Ayala in Rome had led to no
result; the Bishop of Terracina, Ottaviano Raverta, who had
1 See Theiner, I., 667, 668. The first bishop who arrived
at Trent was Nic. Sfondrato of Cremona, afterwards Pope Gregory
XIV.
2 C/. Massarelli, 354; BoNDONUS, 547 seq. ; Susta, I., 7;
GiULi.ANi, Trento al tempo del Conciho (extract from the Arch.
Trid., 1888), 88 seq. Gonzaga resided, as did Morone later on,
in the palace of Sigismund Thun (now the Municipio) in the Via
Larga ; see Swoboda, 23. Here there are also some reproduc-
tions of the many pictures which represent the sessions of the
Council. See also Galante, Kultur-histor., Bilder vom Trienter
Konzil, Innsbruck, 1912.
" See Theiner, I., 667-8.
* Susta, I., 12.
^Massarelli, 356; Susta, I., 24. The date "April 18" in
Theiner, I., 668, is wrong.
* Cf. the report of the Portuguese ambassador of June 18,
1561, in the Corpo dipl. Portug., IX., 273.