and their Councils Abridged, §45. Paulus 2. fucceedeth Pius, a man jut and clement, faith Platina himfelf; yet, faith he, before he was Pope, he could get what he wouldby begging, evenwith tears, of the Pope andgreat men : And when he was Pope, all about him founded with Wars, and Benefices were theirs that would givemot for them ; and in his fears fume-body muttering, that one Callimachus had a Plot againft him, he fet all on tumult to find out the Con- fpirators, when there wasno fuch thing : He had before cali out of their places all the Colledgeof Abbreviates that had bought their places under Pius, of whom Platina beingone , and not getting Audience and relief, wrote him a Letter, that they would go to Princes, andget a Council- called to relieve them: For this he was accufed of Treafon, and laid in Irons by a long imprifonment : And after his releafe, upon this Dream of a Plot, he and many more werenot only imprifoned, but tortured and tormented to force them toconfefs that which never was : Many died of the torments, even of the worthieft young men of the City. After a long timepoor Pla- tina with a brokenbody is delivered, but the Prifoners at lati wereaccufed of Herefie, that theymight not Teem to have fuffered for nothing: Platina's Herefie was, that he had praifed Plato, and the Gentile Learning, and had difputed about the Godhead, which was a questioning it; and the Pope himfelf was fo much againft Learning, that heufed to call tudlous men He.. reticks, and to perfwade men that their Sons mutt learn nomore than to read andwrite. Here Platina endeth his Hiftory ; and hadhe knownother Popes as well as he did this, perhaps he would have praifed their Juffice and Clemency, as hedoth this Pope, by the etfeEts. §.46. Sixties 4. is next, who alfo fpent his days in ItalianWar and bloodfhed : Wonderful ! that our late Papifts think that all the Chritian World hash till obeyed the Pope, when none have fomuch fought againft him as the City of Rome, and the Italians : Onuphrius (who here beginneth the Supplement of Platina) tells youmodetly of his Wars , and his hor- rid treachery againft the Florentines, when to get his will on them, he ap- pointcth Confpirators to murder the two Brothers, Julian and Laurence Medices,of whom the Archbifhop of Pifa was one : They affault them in Gods Worfhip in the Temple, and kill Julian; but Laurence wounded, is locks up by the Church-Wardens in the Vetry; The Citizens rofe before the Executioh could be finifhed, and hanged the Archbifhop, and Poggius and all their Companions in Ropes out at the Windows, írangling lfo the ref' of the Conspirators. The Popes Plot being difappointed, he maketh War againft the Florentines , and interdiEteth them all publick worfhip (The Popes ordinary profane Ufurpation,forbidding whole Cities andKing-. domes all fuch publick ìvorfhipof God,whichRobertGrotiead laid was the part cf Antichrift, and the Devil.) The wifdome ofLaurence Medices ended theWar when itfeemed near the confuming flames ; and the Turks invading Italy, terrified the Pope into a peace with the Florentines.: But Rill - Italy was imbrued in Wars. b, 47. Though the Council of .Bafil had determined the Immaculate - Mm w Concep- 449
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