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The divided minds of the cardinals could not agree about the election, and many of them would have preferred to go away from Rome for the conclave ; but the Romans kept them shut up, until at last their votes united on the head of a cardinal of very infirm health, who took the name of Celestine IV. , and died a few days later. This short pontificate, however, enabled the cardinals to leave Rome and disperse over the Campagna, showing themselves more occupied with their own interests than with t...hose of the Church ; and for nearly two years the Roman see was vacant. Frede- rick, having made some fruitless overtures for peace, again overran the Church's territory in the Marche 204 The Popes axd the Hohenstaufen. ;! i nl Umbria, while in North Italy Eccelin da Romano and the brilliant King Enzio, at the head of the ( Jhibellines, continued the warfare with the Guelphs, and the country suffered from the ravages of both parties. The want of a Pope, if on one side injurious to the Church, was not either any advantage to Fre- derick, because the majority of the cardinals were hos- tile to him, and with them it was difficult to treat definitely, nor bad he before him a declared enemy against whom to direct his blows.
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