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APPENDIX. 421<br />

indictio <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Council, <strong>the</strong> expedient adopted by <strong>the</strong> Pope is<br />

praised in <strong>the</strong> highest terms. But on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand <strong>the</strong><br />

hard treatment shown in <strong>the</strong> suit against <strong>the</strong> Carafa, is made<br />

to appear in as favourable a light as possible for Pius IV.,<br />

altoge<strong>the</strong>r in accordance with <strong>the</strong> wishes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> court. How<br />

very accommodating Panvinio showed himself to be in this<br />

matter comes out clearly by comparing <strong>the</strong> two editions (see<br />

infra p. 424 seqq). Certainly Susta is not making too severe<br />

a judgment when he says (p. 163) that <strong>the</strong> second edition<br />

has all <strong>the</strong> excellencies as well as all <strong>the</strong> defects <strong>of</strong> an <strong>of</strong>ficial<br />

historian.<br />

Panvinio has built up his new edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Vita Pii IV.<br />

merely on <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong> a biography <strong>of</strong> that pontiff, which he<br />

inserted in his larger work De varia Romani pontificis creatione<br />

libri X. This work, which was added to in many respects,<br />

remained unpublished : Merkle was <strong>the</strong> first to publish it<br />

(II. 586-600) <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> Munich codex. <strong>The</strong> codex in <strong>the</strong><br />

Papal Secret Archives (Miscell. Arm. XL, 122) which was<br />

used by Susta, escaped <strong>the</strong> notice <strong>of</strong> Merkle. It would be<br />

desirable, if circumstances should permit me to return to<br />

work in Rome, to compare this codex with that at Munich,<br />

and also with Cod. Vat. lat. 6775.<br />

If in his second edition Panvinio yielded very m.uch to<br />

external influences, he did so no less in <strong>the</strong> third, which he<br />

printed and published under Pius V. By that time in<br />

<strong>of</strong>ficial circles in Rome an altoge<strong>the</strong>r different view <strong>of</strong> Pius<br />

IV., in some ways ra<strong>the</strong>r unfavourable, had become current.<br />

It is with pain and surprise that one sees how Panvinio now<br />

made no scruple about reckoning to a great extent with this<br />

new tendency. <strong>The</strong> dedication <strong>of</strong> Panvinio to Pius V. bears<br />

<strong>the</strong> date November i, 1567, and <strong>the</strong>refore came immediately<br />

after <strong>the</strong> rehabilitation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Carafa. If before he had<br />

magnified <strong>the</strong> crime, Panvinio novv- adds apologetic observa-<br />

tions. With regard to <strong>the</strong> influence to which he was yielding<br />

in so doing, Susta refers to a letter, which he has discovered,<br />

<strong>from</strong> Panvinio to Cardinal Antonio Carafa, who had much at<br />

heart <strong>the</strong> rehabilitation <strong>of</strong> his uncle who had been put to<br />

death. Susta (p. 163 seqq.) severely criticises <strong>the</strong> conduct<br />

<strong>of</strong> Panvinio, and calls attention to <strong>the</strong> spiteful additions,<br />

by means <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> biography <strong>of</strong> Pius IV., while retaining<br />

its original form, was now given an altoge<strong>the</strong>r different char-

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