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goodwill and the honourable intentions of the Pope.^ If he
was not perfectly satisfied with the result of his mission,- he
could at any rate claim that what he had obtained was of no
small importance, an opinion which was also shared by people
of discernment. Canisius considered as the most important
point of all that Morone had obtained, the fact that the passage
on the " reform of the Church in its head and its members "
had been deleted.^ In Rome they were highly pleased with
the work of the legate. " The Pope," writes Borromeo on
May igth to Morone, " has carefully read and considered your
report of the 13th, and I can assure you that, during the
whole of his reign, none of his diplomatists has given him
greater satisfaction. The more difficult and critical the
negotiations were, the greater are the merit and praise due
to you," Borromeo wrote again in a similar appreciative
way on May 27th. ^ The satisfaction of the Pope was all the
greater as he had been prepared, in the last extremity, and in
view of the coalition of the great Catholic powers, to grant
the right of proposition to the envoys, and to allow the reform
of the head of the Church to be discussed by the Council.^
In forming an opinion on what had been accomplished by
Morone the judgment of the opponents of Rome is not without
importance. King Maximilian, to whom all the documents
relating to the Innsbruck conferences were communicated,
learned the result with much disgust. On May 24th he
reproached his father with having given way too far ; now
that it was done, he said, it would be well that the Emperor
^ See ibid. 311 seq. Cf. Pallavicini, 20, 17, 11.
^ According to a letter from Canisius to Lainez of May 17, 1563,
Morone said this to him, referring especially to the national
deputations ; see Zeitschr. fiir Kath. Theologie, 1903, 642 seq.,
and Canisii Epist., IV., 201 seq.
3 See the letter from Canisius to Lainez, cited in the previous
note, and that from the same to Hosius of May 17, 1563, in
Canisii Epist., IV., 209 seq.
* See SusTA, IV., 18, 31 ; cf. 14. See further Steinherz, III.,
313. Cf. also Pallavicini, 20, 15, 11.
^ Cf. Steinherz, III., 277, 305 seq.