Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CARDINAL BARBO ELECTED POPE. II The arrangement of the Election Capitulation was followed by the Election, which, on this occasion, was very rapidly concluded. The first scrutiny took place on the 3Oth August. Scarampo had seven votes, d'Estouteville nine, and Pietro Barbo eleven. The last-named Cardinal,...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CARDINAL BARBO ELECTED POPE. II The arrangement of the Election Capitulation was followed by the Election, which, on this occasion, was very rapidly concluded. The first scrutiny took place on the 3Oth August. Scarampo had seven votes, d'Estouteville nine, and Pietro Barbo eleven. The last-named Cardinal, who, six years before, had almost obtained the tiara, f now at once received three more votes by way of accessit. His election was accordingly secured. The other Cardinals also agreed, invested him with the Papal robes, and did him homage. Thus the high-born but needy Sienese Pope was succeeded by a rich Venetian noble. The populace assembled in front of the Vatican received the news with joy. The Pope was then carried to St. Peter's, where the throng was so great that it was most difficult to find a passage through it.J The principal authority for the completely new information given above is Despatch of Arrivabene of the 1st Sept., 1464. (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua.) See, in the same Archives, the 'Despatch of Jacopo de Aretio to Lodovico Gonzaga of the 1st Sept., and Cardinal Gonzaga's Letter of the 13th Sept., 1464. t See our account, Vol. II., p. 322. J Various dates are given, not only for the beginning of the Conclave but also for the actual Election of Paul II., and this even by contemporaries who ought to have been well informed. In a Letter from Albertino de Cigognara to Marchioness Barbara, dated Rome, 1464, Sept. 1, the Pope is said to have been elected on the 28th August. (Gonzaga Archives.) Platina, 762, and the Istoria di Chiusi, 994, name the 31s1 August, and are followed by Chevalier, 1740, and KRAUS, 802, while L'EPINOIS, 435, mentions the 29th. The 3oth August, however, is established by the testimony of many chroniclers; see Cronica di Bologna, 758 ...