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should have to summon a Council, to see if some concessions
could not be made to them with regard to the marriage of
priests and Communion under both kinds." Such words in
the mouth of a Cardinal in whom many saw the future Pope
caused Truchsess such great scandal that he considered it his
duty to bring it to the notice of the electors, and as it gave rise
to considerable comment, he drew up a written report of his
conversation with Medici on October 13th and another in
November.^ The whole affair, however, injured the Cardinal
of Augsburg rather than the reputation of Medici.-
The weary waiting for a reply from Philip at length seemed
to the Cardinals a burden too great to be borne. The patience
of the hot-blooded Carafa was the first to give way ;
he feared
that his adherents might not, in the end, withstand the temptations
of the opposite party during this long delay .-'^ On October
nth, he declared to Cardinal Sforza that if he did not break
off his alliance with the Spaniards within four days, he would
himself separate from him, and, in conjunction with the
French, raise Cardinal Tournon to the Papal throne ;
he could
easily bring about this result with the seventeen votes of which
he had command and those of the French. Sforza begged
for a delay until October 17th, and this Carafa allowed him.*
In the face of this threat, Vargas thought that he ought to
delay no longer in taking a definite step against Gonzaga,
and he therefore wrote to Madruzzo, the special friend of
the latter, saying that it would be as well to refrain from
supporting Gonzaga any longer, as, under the present circum-
stances there was no hope of his candidature being successful.'^
^ Too much curtailed in Sickel, Konzil, 17 seqq, 20, cf. 84 scq. ;
complete in Urb. 847, Vatican Library. C/. Susta, Pius IV.,
133 n. I.
° C/. MiJLLER, 151 seqq. Several days before the election
Truchsess was reconciled to Medici ; ihid. 224 seq.
^ Vargas on November 5, 1559 in Dollingkr, Beitrage, I., 284.
* GuiDUS, 617 seq. Vargas on October 13, 1559, in Dollinger,
I., 274.
*Wahrmund, 261. Vargas on October 13 and 18, 1559, in
Dollinger, 1., 275, 276; Muller, 149.
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