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

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Morone, who regarded the situation as very dangerous, and
feared a French schism. His principal hope of preventing
matters from coming to an extremity lay in Cardinal Guise i
the latter had not been present at the insulting address of
du Ferrier, as he had started on September i8th, in company
with several other French prelates and theologians, for his
long projected visit to Rome.
Pius IV. received the French Cardinal, who reached Rome
on September 29th, ^ with every imaginable sign of honour ;
Guise had apartments assigned to him in the Vatican, where
the Pope paid him a very ceremonial visit. ^ The two discussed
all the questions then pending in a long conversation, and
with regard to du Ferrier's speech Guise gave the Pope the
tranquillizing assurance that the envoy had never been
instructed by his king to act in such a manner. In consequence
of this, the shrewd Pius IV. ordered the legates on October
2nd to pay no attention to the French protest.^ The Pope
showed the greatest consideration to Cardinal Guise, and a
complete understanding between the two was all the more
easily reached as the French Cardinal was very glad to be
again on good terms with the Pope, both for political and
religious reasons.^ In a consistory on October 8th, Pius IV.
bestowed the greatest praise on the Cardinal, expressing at
^ See SusTA, IV., 271 seq.
2 *Report of Giacomo Tarreghetti, dated Rome, October 2,
1563 (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua).
^ See the reports in Sickel, Konzil, 609 seq. ; Legaz. di Serristori
392 seq. ; GiAC. Soranzo, 148. Cf. Baguenault de Puchesse,
370. The journey of Cardinal Guise to Rome, which, with the
mission of Morone to Innsbruck, forms one of the most important
events in the third period of the Council, is deserving of treatment
in a special monograph. The demands of Guise and the decisions
made by Pius IV. with regard to them, are of very great interest
they have been gathered together and published for the first time
by §usta (IV., 339 seq).
1 See the instruction of Borromeo of October 2, 1563, in §u§Tfv,
IV., 303 seq. Cf. Baguenault de Puchesse, 370 seq.
^ See Baguenault de Puchesse, 370 seq.
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