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254 HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

Pope communicated <strong>the</strong> news to <strong>the</strong> Emperor and exhorted<br />

him no longer to delay in appointing his prelates and envoys.<br />

A letter to <strong>the</strong> same effect was immediately sent to King<br />

Charles IX. <strong>of</strong> France, while <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r Catholic powers, such<br />

as <strong>the</strong> Signoria <strong>of</strong> Venice, also received news <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same<br />

important event.<br />

When Hosius delivered <strong>the</strong> Papal letter to <strong>the</strong> Emperor<br />

on July i8th, <strong>the</strong> latter repeated <strong>the</strong> answer that he had<br />

already given to Canobio, namely that he had already resolved<br />

to send his envoys to Trent, but that he could not as yet<br />

name any fixed date for <strong>the</strong>ir departure. Even <strong>the</strong> successor<br />

<strong>of</strong> Hosius, <strong>the</strong> persuasive Delfino, after repeated exhortations,<br />

could only get <strong>the</strong> same answer, that <strong>the</strong> envoys <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Em-<br />

peror would reach Trent before those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Spanish king.^<br />

Hosius, who had long wished to go to Trent, left Vienna<br />

he reached <strong>the</strong> seat <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Council on August<br />

on July 2gth ;<br />

20th, refusing, in his retiring way, any solemn reception.^<br />

At midsummer Pius IV. was still working zealously on<br />

behalf <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Council. <strong>The</strong> legates, Puteo and Simonetta,<br />

received instructions in July to hold <strong>the</strong>mselves in readiness<br />

for <strong>the</strong> journey.^ <strong>The</strong> nuncios were commissioned to see<br />

to <strong>the</strong> sending <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> delegates to <strong>the</strong> Council, while <strong>the</strong><br />

Pope himself attended to this in Italy. On August ist<br />

briefs to this effect were addressed to all <strong>the</strong> bishops <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

peninsula, on <strong>the</strong> 3rd to those <strong>of</strong> Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica<br />

and Dalmatia, and on <strong>the</strong> 9th to <strong>the</strong> Archbishops <strong>of</strong> Cyprus<br />

and Crete. <strong>The</strong> prelates who were in Rome were repeatedly<br />

admonished to start for Trent, but some delay was allowed<br />

to <strong>the</strong>m as it was evident that <strong>the</strong> Spanish bishops could<br />

not reach Trent before October.^ When threatening news<br />

^ See SiCKEL, Konzil, 205; Susta, I., 48 seq., 219.<br />

* See SxEiNHERZ, I., cv. seq.<br />

^ See Steinherz, I., 290 ; Massarelli 357.<br />

* *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> July 12, 1561 (Urb. 1039, p. 287, Vatican<br />

Library)<br />

.<br />

^ See <strong>the</strong> letters <strong>from</strong> Borromeo <strong>of</strong> July 26, and August 2 and 20,<br />

1561, in SusTA, I., 64 seq., 69, 71 seq., 73 seq. Cf. *Avviso di<br />

Roma <strong>of</strong> August 9, 1561 (Urb. 1039, p. 224, Vatican Library),

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