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392 HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

are copies,^ in which <strong>the</strong> text, and especially <strong>the</strong> dates, are<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten incorrect.<br />

On account <strong>of</strong> this great multiplication <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> reports in<br />

<strong>the</strong> codices, it is no wonder that <strong>the</strong>y have <strong>of</strong>ten been used,<br />

and with much pr<strong>of</strong>it, by historical investigators. Probably<br />

<strong>the</strong> first to use <strong>the</strong>m was <strong>the</strong> indefatigable Raynaldus, who<br />

availed himself <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m for his annals (1560, n. 57), <strong>from</strong> a<br />

codex <strong>of</strong> Cardinal Spada. Pallavicini made fuller use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m,<br />

after his rival Sarpi had done so. Ranke drew upon <strong>the</strong>m<br />

<strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> Berlin codex (Fiirsten und Volker, I., 368 ; Papste^<br />

I., 207, 211, and III., 50*). It is strange that Sickel did<br />

not avail himself <strong>of</strong> this valuable source, <strong>the</strong> more so as <strong>the</strong><br />

codex in <strong>the</strong> Court Library, Vienna, was easily accessible<br />

to him. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, Susta has used <strong>the</strong>m, as has<br />

Ancel, in <strong>the</strong>ir description <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fall <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Carafa. I refrain<br />

<strong>from</strong> printing <strong>the</strong> reports <strong>of</strong> Mula on <strong>the</strong> Council in deference<br />

to <strong>the</strong> publication <strong>of</strong> Ehses. Mula is also deserving <strong>of</strong> a<br />

monograph 00 account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> literary style <strong>of</strong> his reports.<br />

4. Cardinal C. Carafa to <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong> Paliano.^<br />

1560, June 1, Roma.<br />

Ill°^o et ecc'^o sig''^ mio e fratello osserv^o.<br />

Mando con questa a V. E. copia delle lettere che il sig'<br />

Fabritio ha scritto ultimamente di corte, cosi a S. S^^ come<br />

a me et al sig'^ Ferrante, e vedra che forma di resolutione<br />

hanno presa fino adesso le cose nostre ; e a me pare che le<br />

parole del sig'' Fabritio si devino molto ben considerare,<br />

et che da quelle si possa trarre certa speranza che, se bene<br />

S. M*^^ non ha determinato sopra il fatto de la ricompensa,<br />

sia non di meno questo negocio per riuscire a tutta nostra<br />

sodisfattione, et tanto piu quanto io ci vedo S. S^^, dalla<br />

quale ha da depender tutto questo fatto, dispositissima,<br />

come e stata sempre ; si ch'io giudico che V. Ecc^^ possa<br />

starne con I'animo riposato e sicuro, perche anco dal canto<br />

nostro non si mancara di fare quanto sara possibile.<br />

Quanto al venir di V. Ecc^^ qua, e tutto in arbitrio suo^<br />

ma quando pure le paresse di aspettare I'arrivo del sig^®<br />

Fabritio, poi che non potra tardare cinque o sei giorni piu,<br />

^ <strong>The</strong> two reports <strong>of</strong> Mula <strong>of</strong> May 22 and August 20, 1560, are in <strong>the</strong> original<br />

in <strong>the</strong> State Archives, Venice, Filza XII.<br />

" See supra, p. 142, n. 4.<br />

» In <strong>the</strong> original underlined in a later hand.<br />

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