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CARLO CARAFA REINSTATED. 5
Carafa, and his family out of his towns of Gallese and Soriano
and from all the States of the Church.^
This arrogant demand was received with indignation by the
Cardinals. When Pirro Taro, the Conservator of the city,
again appeared on September ist, with the representatives
of the people, to receive the answer to their request, Cardinal
Carpi, in the absence of the Dean, du Bellay, gave them a
severe reprimand on account of the recent excesses, and, at
the same time, he forbade them to take any proceedings on
their own authority, and, in fatherly terms, gravely admon-
ished them to keep the peace, and to think of the public weal.
Taro, in his reply, sought to make excuses for the people by
expatiating on the burdens of the war and the heavy taxes
during the late pontificate, and the encroachments of the
Carafa.^ The College of Cardinals had already taken the part
of the Carafa family when Count Giovanni Francesco Bagno
had attempted to take possession of the little town of Monte-
bello, of which he had been deprived by Paul IV. in favour of
Antonio Carafa ;
on August 26th the Cardinals had forbidden
the Duke of Florence to afford any assistance to Count Bagno.
However, all the signs of favour, as weU as of hostility, which
the Carafa family received, were of little account in comparison
with the fact that, in virtue of a decree of the Sacred College,
Carlo Carafa was recalled from banishment and again put in
possession of all the rights of a Cardinal. In view of the mere
fact of the great number of his adherents, the prediction of
the French ambassador in Venice that Cardinal Carafa would
play but an unimportant part in the coming conclave,*
appeared to be altogether illusory.
The regulation of the canon law that after the death of a
Pope the nine days obsequies should be commenced at once, and
^ GuiDUS, 609. *Report of Camillo Capilupi dated Rome,
Sept. 2, 1559 (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua).
^GuiDUs, 610. *Report of C. Capilupi of Sept. 2, 1559 (Gonzaga
Archives, Mantua).
3 GuiDUs, 609.
* Francois de Noailles to the Cardinal of Lorraine, August i,
1559. RiBiER, IL, 825.
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