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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER II
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136-138.] One chief defect of Pius IV., judged by the standard of the new party in the Church, had been his coldness in religious exercises.

Paolo Tiepolo remarks that during the last seven months of his life he never once attended service in his chapel.[61] [Footnote 61: _Op.

cit._ p.

171.] This indifference was combined with lukewarmness in the prosecution of reforms.

The Datatario still enriched itself by the composition of benefices, and the Camera by the composition of crimes.


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