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PAUL III (ALESSANDRO FARNESE, KNOWN AS). Autograph...

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PAUL III (ALESSANDRO FARNESE, KNOWN AS). Autograph letter signed with his initial ".A.", TO KING FRANÇOIS I. Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, February 8, 1541 [1540 c. s.]. 1 p. folio. PAUL III INTERESTED PROMOTER OF PEACE. The rivalry between Francis I and Charles V conditioned much of the European politics of the time, particularly in Italy, where both sovereigns had interests. Paul III wanted to reform the Church and reduce the Protestant question, and was thinking of a great Council that would allow him to have it both ways. He also actively pursued the project of securing his family's fortune and practiced unbridled nepotism, having, for example, appointed two of his grandsons cardinals. Elected in part for his position of neutrality towards France and the Empire, he pursued this line, which alone served his public and private projects. He was, for example, behind the Truce of Nice between Francis I and Charles V. One of the great popes of the Renaissance, Alessandro Farnese is best known for launching the Council of Trent, approving the founding of the Society of Jesus and, as a brilliant patron of the arts, employing Michelangelo to decorate the Sistine Chapel. THE AVIGNON AFFAIR AND THE DUC DE MONTMORENCY. The connétable, a powerful minister whose star was fading, wanted the legation of Avignon for his nephew Cardinal Odet de Coligny-Châtillon. He had obtained from the current legate, Cardinal de Clermont, his resignation in favor of Châtillon, but Paul III wanted it for his nephew Alessandro Farnese, already archbishop of Avignon: the pope therefore opposed this resignation, and, after first promising that Châtillon would receive the legation on Clermont's death, finally gave it to Allessandro Farnese in March 1541. Montmorency was already opposed to the Pope in another matter, that of the marriage of the Duc d'Aumale, to whom Paul III proposed his niece, Vittoria Farnese. THE PRESENT LETTER IS A FIN DE NON RECEVOIR CONCERNING THE CONNETABLE'S VIEWS OF AVIGNON, which he cannot access "without scandal". "Charissime in Christo fili salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Monsr de Limoges, ambasciatore di Vostra Maestà, me ha data questa ultima lettera sua, e ne ha soggionto quel di più che da Lei haveva in commissione, e, perché con esso ne siamo satisfatti de la risposta, et l'habbiamo fatto bene capace de la verità, e de la mala informatione che e stata data a Vostra Maestà circa al negotio de la resignatione de la legatione de Avignone, e da poi ne havemo ancor ragionato con il protectore e con mons. de Ferara quali sonno bene resoluti, oltra questo che havemo fatto scrivere de novo al legato et al nuntio, non replicaremo altro per la presente a Vostra Maestà salvo che la pregamo a tenere per certo che noi la amamo et l'havemo amata sempre cordialissimamente, e che, si come fin qui havemo piena satisfatione de non havere mai pretermessa cosa con la quale habbiamo possuto COMPIACERLA E GRATIFICARLA, cossi speramo che in lo avenire quando si presenti altra occasione megliore e CHE SENZA SCANDALO SI POSSA FARE, COME HORA NON SI PÒ, sia per cognoscerece del medesimo bono animo verso Lei e MONS. CONESTABILE, il quale havemo conosciuto bono servitore di Vostra Maestà et affectionato a questa Sede apostolica et alle cose nostre particularmente, e TENEMO DESIDERIO DE FARLI COSA GRATA. QUANTO ALLA PACE, CHE SOPRA OGNIALTRA COSA DESIDERAMO, come sa Vostra Maestà, speramo che Lei, si come, con la prudentia e bontà sua, ha dato fin qui cossi bono principio, dil che la laudamo e ringratiamo molto, cossi la debbia condure al perfetto fine, per benefitio universale, dil [che] di bono core la pregamo - et il medesimo faremo con la Cesaria Maestà... "

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