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ARRIVAL OF MORE ENVOYS. 27I
Simonetta stood out from the first as the strong opponent of
any definition of a divine law of the duty of residence ; he
stood above all his colleagues in knowledge of canon law, ^ and
he clearly recognized the danger which this vexed question
concealed ; however, the wishes of Ferdinand's envoys
weighed more in the end than these fears.
In the latter half of March the real business of the Council
had to a certain extent to give way to the solemn receptions
and to the ceremonies of Holy Week.^ On March i6th the
envoy of the Spanish king, Fernando Francisco de Avalos,
Marquis of Pescara, was received in the General Congregation ;*
on March i8th, the envoy of the Duke of Florence, Giovanni
Strozzi ;5 on March 20th, the envoys of Catholic Switzerland,
Melchior Lussy, chief magistrate of Unterwalden, as orator of
the seven Catholic cantons, and Abbot Joachim Eichhorn of
Einsiedeln, as procurator of the prelates and clergy of the seven
cantons ;^ on April 6th, the procurators of the prelates and
clergy of the kingdom of Hungary, Johann di Kolosvary, Bishop
of Csanad, and Andreas Sbardelato Dudith, Bishop of Knin.''
The discussion, at first only of the first four reform articles,
was now begun in the General Congregation of April 7th.
^ C/. SicKEL, Berichte, I., 57.
* See Eder, I., 137-8.
'See SusTA, II., 53, 64. Cf. Pallavicini, 16, 4, 2.
* See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 32-4; Le Plat, V., 105-10. Cf.
Theiner, I., 694 seq. ; Bondonus, 558-9. See also Susta, 1.,
313, on the provisional appointment of Pescara.
* See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 35-7; Le Plat, V., 110-6. Cj.
Theiner, L, 695; Susta, IL, 53 seq.
"See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 38-9; Le Plat, V., 116-24. Cf.
Theiner, L, 695 ;
50 seqq.
Mayer,
Konzil und Gegensreformation, I.,
^ See Le Plat, V., 138-46. Cj. Theiner, L, 696; Susta, II.
74 seq. On April 25 the envoys of the Republic of Venice, Niccolo
da Ponte and Matteo Dandolo, were received. See Raynaldus,
1562, n. 42 ; Le Plat, v., 159-62. C/. Theiner, I., 714 ; Susta,
II., 61.
* See Theiner, I., 696 seqq. ; Paleotto in Theiner, II. , 552 seq.
Cf. Pallavicini, 16, 4 seq, ; Susta, II. , 77 seq.
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