History of Latin Christianity: Including That of the Popes to the ..., volume 7
History of Latin Christianity: Including That of the Popes to the ..., volume 7
Milman Henry Hart
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apad Murator. ill. Digitized by VjOOQIC Chap. L ELECTION. 233 At length both parties seemed to concur. Each claimed credit for first advancing the name, ArehbWMm -which most afterwards repudiated, of the**'^^- Archbishop of Bari, a man of repute for theologic and legal erudition, an Italian, but a subject of the Queen of Naples, who was also Countess of Prov- ence. They came to the nomination. The Cardi- nal of Florence proposed the Cardinal of St. Peter's. The Cardinal of Limoges arose, " The ...Cardinal of St. Peter's is too old. The Cardinal of Florence is of a city at war with the Holy See. I reject the Cardinal of Milan as the subject of the Visconti, the most deadly enemy of the Church. The Cardinal Orsini is too young, and we must not yield to the clamor of the Bomans. I vote for Bartholomew Prignani, Archbishop of Bari." ^ All was acclamation ; Orsini alone stood out: he aspired to be the Pope of the Romans. But it was too late ; the mob was thundering at the gates, menacing death to the Cardinals, if they had not immediately a Boman Pontifl^ The feeble de- fences sounded as if they were shattering down ; the tramp of the populace was almost heard within the Hall.
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