51-54.] [Footnote 63: Assuming the population of Rome to have been about 90,000 at that date, this number appears incredible.

Yet we have it on the best of all evidences, that of a resident Venetian envoy.] Pius IV.

had wasted the greater part of his later life in bed, neglecting business, entertaining his leisure with buffoons and good companions, eating much and drinking more.

Pius V., on the contrary, carried the habits of the convent with him into the Vatican, and bestowed the time he spared from devotion upon the transaction of affairs.

He was of choleric complexion, adust, lean, wasted, with sunken eyes and snow-white hair, looking ten years older than he really was.
Such a Pope changed the face of Rome, or rather stereotyped the change which had been instituted by Cardinal Borromeo.