CHAPTER IV.

As Innocent VIII. to D’Aubusson, so Pius IV.offered the cardinalship to Yaletta, yet with moredelicacy leaving him a choice, by consulting himbeforehand, of which he availed himself and refused;extremely courteously of course, supplicating itshould be rather given to his brother, a true eccle-siastic, then Bishop of Yabres; whereas he himselfhad grown old in the profession of arms. “ Yerydifferent from the holy spotless life of my brother,who has all which qualifies for that sacerdotal

1566 e ^ eva ^ on- ” Hut it was too late—Pius IY.

could no longer confer anything in theworld, for he died on the 9th of December, 1565 j 1

1 Bosio: par. iii., lib. xxxiii. 720.