And so ends that portion of our story which falls
within the period that has been called the Middle Ages ;
if not quite accurately so according to the almauac, yet
sufficiently so in respect to the animating spirit of the
times, and the influence of that spirit on the Papal
Conclaves,, to justify the adoption of it as a story-shed
dividing the old time from the new.
BOOK m.
THE ZEALOUS POPES.
BOOK m.
THE ZEALOUS POPES.
CHAPTEE I.
Bemarks of Banke on the Papal History of the Sixteenth Century. —
Julius III. — ^B^s Character. — Conclave which elected him. — View
of this Conclave by the Venetian Ambassador. — Delay in Assem-
bling of the Conclaves after Paul in.'s Death. — ^Eegiuald Pole. — The
Expectation that he would be elected. — ^Was all but elected. — His
own scruples. — ^His Election lost by them. — ^Anecdote of his beha-
viour in Conclave. — Cardinal di San MarceUo, afterwards Pope as
MarceUusn.— Determined to elect Pole, if possible. — ^The Emperor
appealed to by Letter. — He vetoes Cardinal Salviati. — Election of
Del Monte, as Julius III. — His Character.
I HAVE given in a former chapter my reasons for
drawing a line of division at the death of Paul III.
Banke says,* that the sixteenth century was especially
marked by the spirit of religious creation. Even yet,
in our own days, we are living on the struggles between
various creeds which first broke out in that age. But
if it is desired to fix with greater precision the epoch at
which the separation of the creeds was consummated, we
must not fix it at the first appeai'ance of the reformers.
