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RELEASE OF MORONE. 3
from banishment on August 2ist, and was again able to appear
in the streets of Rome as a prince. Marcantonio Colonna, who
had been declared an outlaw by the dead Pope, and compelled
to forfeit his estates in favour of Giovanni Carafa,i likewise
reappeared in the Eternal City on August 2Tst. The people
went to meet him, and received him with the liveliest signs
of joy. Colonna had regained all his former possessions,
with the exception of Paliano, but he assured the Cardinals
on August 22nd that he was prepared to obey the commands
of the future Pope.-
The supreme senate of the Church also allowed it to be
clearly seen that it was not in all matters of one mind with
its deceased head. Cardinal Morone was, to the great satis-
faction of the whole court, "^ released from his prison in the
Castle of St. Angelo, in accordance with the decision of the
majority of the Sacred College, and, contrary to the decree of
Paul IV., ^ he also received back the passive right of election
in the approaching conclave.^ The Cardinals dealt otherwise
with Alfonso Carafa. This prelate, whom his uncle had
appointed President of the Apostolic Camera, and, as such,
^ Cf. Vol. XIV. of this work, pp. 100, 105, iii, 121, 167.
2 Panvinius in Merkle, II., 335 n. 2., Massarelli, ibid., 336 ;
GuiDUS, ibid., 608. *Report of G. Aldrovandi dated Rome,
August 23, 1559 (State Archives, Bologna).
^ G. Aldrovandi lays emphasis on this in the above mentioned
report of August 23.
* Cf. Vol. XIV. of this work, pp. 302 seq.
5 BoNDONUs, 518 ; Panvinius in Merkle, II., 334
n. According
to Massarelli, 334, Morone was set at liberty on August 20.
This is, however, incorrect. In the codex of the Seminary Library,
Foligno, the importance of which is made clear by our remarks
in Vol. XIV., p. 468, of this work, the note is written on the margin
of the statement of opinion of A. Massa, p. 115, that " die lunae 21
Augusti secundum hanc informationem " was fixed as the day
that Morone was to be set at liberty, and the work was at once
set on foot. Thirteen of the Cardinals were in favour of his
being freed, and eleven against it (Panvintos, 334), Puteo was
among the latter on formal grounds; see Susta, Pius IV., 112,
n, 2.