[129] Manuel Serrano y Sanz (Revista de Archivos etc., Febrero, 1903, p. 129).
[130] “Con questa risolutione condanna l’uomo il giudicio della prudentia e della ragione humana e renuncia il suo lume naturale ed entra nel regno di Dio, remettendosi al reggimento ed al governo di Dio.”—Ibidem, Consid. XXV.
[131] Lac Spirituale Johannis de Valdés. Ed. Koldewey, Heilbronn, 1863.
[132] Trataditos de Juan de Valdés, p. 179 (Bonn, 1880).
The germ of much of this tract may be found in the Militiæ Christianæ Enchiridion, Canon 5, in which Erasmus dwells on the worthlessness of external observances and stigmatizes the importance attached to them as a kind of new Judaism. Yet the Enchiridion was repeatedly reprinted after its first appearance, in 1502, and was approved by Adrian of Utrecht, subsequently Adrian VI.
[133] Giannone, Istoria civile del Regno di Napoli, Lib. XXII, cap. v, § 1 (Haya, 1753).
[134] Chioccarelli Antistitum Neapol. Eccles. Catalogus, p. 321 (Neapoli, 1642).
On the death of Carafa in 1544, Paul III gave the see to his own nephew, Rainuccio Farnese, a boy of fifteen. It was then administered through vicars, the one at the time of the troubles of 1547 being Fabio Mirto, Bishop of Cajazzo.—Ibidem, p. 326.
[135] Bullar Roman. I, 762.
[136] Amabile, I, 193-6. It would seem that, at this time, the Holy See claimed inquisitorial jurisdiction over Naples, for a papal brief of June 2, 1544 orders the viceroy to arrest and send under sure guard to Rome, Vespasiano di Agnone, a wandering Franciscan friar, guilty of sacrilege and other enormous crimes.—Fontana, Documenti Vaticani, p. 131 (Roma, 1892).