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24 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
Carafa, however, were just as firmly resolved on the other
hand, to exclude Gonzaga from the Papacy at all costs.
Both parties were almost equally strong,- and in view of
^Este and Guise wrote on October i8, 1559 (in Ribif.r, IL,
835), that Carafa and Farnese sought to keep their adherents
together by holding out to them hopes of the tiara, and by procuring
for them at the voting 18, 20 or 22 votes to keep this hope
alive. This, however, only relates to the days which immediately
on
preceded October 18 ; on October 12 Ghislieri received 20 votes ;
on the 13, Ranuccio Farnese 21 ; on the 16, Gaddi 14 ;
Savelli 22. Cf. *Lists of the scrutinies
the 17,
(State Library, Munich,
in Appendix No. i).
^ Gianfigliazzi writes at the end of September to the Duke of
Florence that the Farnese-Carafa party had 25 Cardinals, and
that of Gonzaga 22 (Petrucelli, 130). The so-called neutrals
are here reckoned among the opponents of Gonzaga. According
to Guadagna (*Letter of October 4, 1559, Gonzaga Archives,
Mantua), du Bellay, Tournon, Armagnac, Lenoncourt, Guise,
Este, Madruzzo, Sforza, Sermoneta, Morone, Medici, Puteo,
Capodiferro, Cicada, Pisani, Cornaro, Cristoforo del Monte,
Mercurio, Rovere, Corgna, Simoncelli, Strozzi and Gonzaga
himself are all for the Cardinal of Mantua. Against him are,
according to Guadagno :
Alessandro
and Ranuccio Farnese,
Savelli, Carpi, Saraceni, Carlo Carafa, Scotti, Vitelli, Gaddi,
Rebiba, Ghislieri, Diomede Carafa, Alfonso Carafa, Innocenzo
del Monte, Reumano, Capizuchi and Dolera. At the name of
Dolera there is the remark : " andra a Mantova non mancando
pill di 2 voti." The neutrals are Pacheco, Ricci, and Crispi,
Truchsess, Cesi, Dandino and Cueva. Guadagno says of Truchsess,
Cesi and Dandino : " andranno in Mantova," and of Cueva :
" andra in Mantova mancando il suo voto." A list which the
Imperial ambassador, Francis von Thurm, encloses in a letter
to Ferdinand I. on September 30, 1559 (published by S. Brunner
in the Studien und Mitteilungen aus dem Benediktiner-und Zister-
zienserorden, VI., 2, 388 (1885), differs in the following respects
from Guadagno's list : To the list of friends of Gonzaga it adds
Saraceni, Cueva and Cesi, but omits Medici and Mercurio (Cueva
was, according to Bondonus, 50, among the opponents of Gonzaga
at the attempted homage on September 25 ; cf. Muller, 135).
In the list of the opponents of Gonzaga, Saraceni and Innocenzo
^