Paolo Caraffa, to remodel the Roman office on a similar type in 1542.

It may at once be said that the real Spanish Inquisition was never introduced into Italy.[96] Such an institution, claiming independent jurisdiction and flaunting its cruelties in the light of day, would not have suited the Papal policy.

As temporal and spiritual autocrats, the Popes could not permit a tribunal of which they were not the supreme authority.

It was their interest to consult their pecuniary advantage rather than to indulge insane fanaticism; to repress liberty of thought by cautious surveillance rather than by public terrorism and open acts of cruelty.
The Italian temperament was, moreover, more humane than the Spanish; nor had the refining culture of the Renaissance left no traces in the nation.

Furthermore, the necessity for so Draconian an institution was not felt.