The Pope's baptismal name was Adrian.
[3] See the passage quoted from the _Lettere de Principi_, Rome, March 17, 1523, by Burckhardt, p.

99, note.
Great was the rejoicing when another Medici was made Pope in 1523.
People hoped that the merry days of Leo would return.

But things had gone too far toward dissolution.

Clement VII.

failed to give satisfaction to the courtiers whom his more genial cousin had delighted: even the scholars and the poets grumbled.[1] His rule was weak and vacillating, so that the Colonna faction raised its head again and drove him to the Castle of S.Angelo.The political horizon of Italy grew darker and more sullen daily, as before some dreadful storm.