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

CANDIDATES OF SPAIN. II
in peace and unity." Should a candidate possess all these
quahties, then his readiness to represent the actual interests
of Spain was not to weigh too much in the balance. As
desirable candidates Philip then indicated Carpi, Morone,
Puteo, Medici and Dolera. Morone and Dolera, who had only
recently been elevated to the cardinalate, had little prospect
of being elected, and were only mentioned out of courtesy.
Este and all Frenchmen were to be excluded.^
As far as Figueroa was concerned, these instructions had no
importance, since Paul IV. would not accept him as ambassador
on account of a former interference on his part in the rights
of the Inquisition. 2 When at length the Pope was willing
to receive him, and Philip repeated his orders in an Instruction
of July 13th, 1559,^ Figueroa died on July 28th, 1559, at
Gaeta. The king then appointed Francisco de Vargas, his
former representative in Milan. He sailed from Antwerp on
August 31st, and reached Rome on September 25th.*
Figueroa 's instructions were also to be followed by him,
although he applied them in a much more arbitrary manner.
Count Francis von Thurm,*^ hitherto the representative of
Ferdinand, King of the Romans, in Venice, arrived in Rome
on August 28th as his ambassador. In this office, Thurm
can hardly be said to have represented an independent policy,^
but rather to have followed that of Vargas. '^
1 MtJLLER, 84 seq. There appears no reason to doubt Philip's
sincerity, Herre, 33 seq. Cf. also Susta, Pius IV., 79.
* MtJLLER, 40 seq.
* MiJLLER, 85 ; cf. 59, n. I. As to the date see Herre, 41, n. i.
* MiJLLER, 41; Concerning Vargas see Constant, Rapport,
186 seq.
5 Concerning him see Constant, Rapport, 2 seq.
* Ferdinand remarked that he had never directly (liberamente)
proposed anyone to the conclave, but only expressed a wish,
" che eleggano un homo da bene." Giacomo Soranzo on Decem-
ber 2, 1559, in Turba, III., 125 n.
' SiCKEL, Konzil, I seqq. S. Brunner in Studien und Mitteilun-
gen aus dem Benediktiner-und Zisterzienserorden, VI., 2 (1885),
173 seqq.