193), we find abundant testimony to this persuasion regarding the intolerible vice of Rome, even in men devoid of moral conscience.

Aretino (_La Cortegiana_, end of Act i.Sc.

xxiii.) writes: 'Io mic redeva che il castigo, che l' ha dato Cristo per mano degli Spagnuoli, l'avesse fatta migliore, et e piu scellerata che mai.' Bandello (_Novelle_, Parte ii.

xxxvii.) alluding to the sack, remarks in a parenthesis, 'benche i peccati di quella citta meritassero esser castigati.' After adducing two such witnesses, it would weaken the case to cite Trissino or Vettori, both of whom expressed themselves with force upon the iniquities of Papal Rome.
[2] Compare _Lettere de' Princ._ ii.

77; Cardinal Cajetanus, and other testimonies quoted by Greg.