[1337] Acta Concil. Trident. (Martene Ampl. Coll. VIII. 1063-9).
[1338] Sarpi, Istor. del Concilio Trident. Lib. VI. (Ed. Helmstad. II. 140).—Cf. Le Plat, V. 337-8.
[1339] Le Plat, V. 235.
[1340] Charles was careful to put on record his ceaseless endeavors with Clement and Paul to obtain the convocation of a council and the numberless promises made to him, for the evasion of which reasons were always found.—Commentaires de Charles-Quint, pp. 96-7 (Paris, 1862).
[1341] Select. Harl. Miscell., London, 1793, p. 137.
[1342] The temper with which the Protestants now viewed the council is well expressed in a letter from Aonio Paleario written in 1542 or 1545, from Rome to Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer, and Calvin, urging them by no means to sanction the assembly with their presence—(Published by Illgen, 4to. Leipzig, 1833).
[1343] There is something very amusingly suggestive in the guarded manner in which Charles alludes to the translation of the Council—“O ditto Papa Paulo por respeitos, que o moveram (os quaes Deus permitta que forsem bons) tratton de avocar e transferir a Bolonha”—(Commentaires, p. 98).
[1344] That the complaints of the Protestants were well founded, is evident from the secret instructions given, Feb. 20th, 1552, by Julius III. to the Bishop of Monte Fiascone, when sending him as legate to Charles V. He was to explain to the emperor that the Council would not discuss the propositions of the heretics “nimirum quod judex non respondet parti, ne ex judice se partem constituat;” and he is further to explain that “petentes commune concilium hæretici et schismatici repellendi sunt a onciliis universalibus ... nullo modo commmunicandum esse concilium cum hæreticis et schismaticis, qui sunt extra ecclesiam ... sed bene possunt admitti, ut possint interesse pro convincendis etiam pluries eorum erroribus.”—Le Plat, Monument. Concil. Trident. T. IV. p. 534-5.
[1345] The feeling entertained by Pius towards the council is shown by his remark, in Dec. 1561, to M. de Lisle, the French ambassador, that it had been called simply for the benefit of France—“dautant que ledit concile, qui est de peu de besoin pour le reste de la chrestienté, superflu aux Catholiques et non desiré des papes” (Le Plat, Monument. Concil. Trident. IV. 742).
[1346] The characteristic correspondence is in Le Plat, IV. 678-87.