When Cosimo de'Medici requested that a revised edition of the _Decameron_ might be licensed, Pius V.entrusted the affair to Thomas Manrique, Master of the Sacred Palace.

It was published by the Giunti in 1573 under the auspices of Gregory XIII., with the approval of the Holy Office and the Florentine Inquisition, fortified by privileges from Spanish and French kings, dukes of Tuscany, Ferrara, and so forth.

The changes which Boccaccio's masterpiece had undergone were these: passages savoring of doubtful dogma, sarcasms on monks and clergy, the names of saints, allusions to the devil and hell, had disappeared.

Ecclesiastical sinners were transformed into students and professors, nuns and abbesses into citizens' wives.

Immorality in short was secularized.