through
the wrangling of their theologians with those of Germany. See the Hist.
eccles. des egl. ref., etc. Yet it is not improbable, as La Place,
Commentaires, 200, seems to hint that Navarre's project was maliciously
countenanced by the Cardinal of Lorraine. But the circumstance that, of
the _five_ German theologians, not less than _two_ were opposed to the
Augsburg Confession, proves conclusively that they could not have been
despatched with the view of helping the cardinal out in his attempt.
Bossuet's admiration of the prelate's sagacity, in thus seeking to give
a brilliant demonstration of the variations of doctrine among
Protestants, certainly seems to be wasted.]

[Footnote 1182: _Ante_, c. xi., p. 493.]

[Footnote 1183: See the list of the twenty members of the council, in
Recueil des anc. lois franc., xiv. 55, 56.]

[Footnote 1184: See Baum, ii. 215.]

[Footnote 1185: "Affulserat aliqua spes concordiae, sed Legatus
Pontificius, i. e., Cardinalis Ferrariensis omnia perturbavit." Letter
of Martyr to the magistrates of Zurich, Oct. 17, 1561, Baum, ii., App.,
108.]

[Footnote 1186: "Quique ingenio, eloquentia, _artificio_ plurimum
valebat." Prosp. Santacrucii, Comment de civil. Galliae dissen., 1461.]

[Footnote 1187: "Ne ipse exequiis, ut dicebat, illius regni interesset."
Ibid., _ubi supra_. Somewhat maliciously Santa Croce suggests that
Gualtieri was all the more reluctant to remain after he heard of the
creation of nineteen new cardinals, and learned that his own name was
not included in the list.]

[Footnote 1188: "Angebatur interea Romae gravissimis curis Pius pontifex,
quod nec quae legati fecissent satis probaret, et in dies malum magis
serpere, omniaque remedia minus juvare audiebat." Ib., 1462.]

[Footnote 1189: He was described to the Pope by his secretary, Prosper
himself tells us, as "virum exercitatum, magni animi, multarum
literarum, eloquentem, magnaeque apud Gallos auctoritatis," having
obtained great familiarity with French affairs when nuncio in Henry the
Second's lifetime. Ib., 1463.]

[Footnote 1190: "Non tam ut numerus legatorum, quam ut plus auctoritatis
legatio haberet, si ab ipsius (ut dicunt) pontificis latere legatus
discederet ... quasi aliorum legatorum creatio, quod erant jam in
Gallia, neque Roma proficiscerentur, non satis diligenter curare
negotium diceretur." Ib., 1462.]

[Footnote 1191: "Grande hombre de entretenimientos y de encantar."
Vargas calls him. Letter to G