. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. re his father and his mother, but that saved him fromthe trouble and temptation of providing for his relations; hemight not be profoundly versed in the canon and the civil law,but he was a man of the world who knew many mens mannersand had seen many cities; it was no ordinary man who couldwin the confidence of that astute and masterful tyrant, GianGaleazzo. His only serious fault was that he sat half the dayat table and had in his house four hundred female servantsclad in hi
. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. re his father and his mother, but that saved him fromthe trouble and temptation of providing for his relations; hemight not be profoundly versed in the canon and the civil law,but he was a man of the world who knew many mens mannersand had seen many cities; it was no ordinary man who couldwin the confidence of that astute and masterful tyrant, GianGaleazzo. His only serious fault was that he sat half the dayat table and had in his house four hundred female servantsclad in his livery.^ Moreover the worthy cardinal, after the 1 Mur. xxiv. 174. 2 Raynaldus, viii. 286. * Mur. xix. 41. 374 IN THE DAYS OF THE COUNCILS Patriarch of Alexandria, had been the most active prelate inthe affairs of the Council. For these recommendations, andbecause he Avas now seventy years of age, the cardinals in con-clave assembled chose Petrus Filargi, Archbishop of Milanand Cardinal of the Twelve Apostles, to be the future Popeof the Council and of Christendom, and he took the title ofAlexander the Fifth. asK. IOPK IIIK Fll lii. POPE ALEXANDER THE FIFTH 375 CHAPTER XI POPE ALEXANDER THE FIFTH Thi<: new Pope, Petrus Filargi, a man of the highest know-ledge, in name and in reality an Alexander, is thus describedin his epitaph :— JJivus Alexander, Cretensi oriundus ab ora,Clnuditur hoc saxo, summo venerandua honore,Antea Petrus erat, sed celsa sede potitus,Quintus Alexander Jit, ceii sol orbe coruscans,Religione minor, post ad sublime vocatus. ^ The news of his election would naturally be received withgreat joy in Milan and Bologna, where he was well known, butnot in Rome, which was at that time occupied by the troopsof Ladislas of Naples. The Gray Friars everywhere wereoverjoyed that a Franciscan had been chosen Pope; in Pisathey were wild with delight; they ran about for daysthrough the streets and squares as if they were mad, determinedto get all the orood
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