Chapter IV: Milan

The Old and the reorganized Roman Inquisition 121

Energy of Fra Michele Ghislieri (Pius V) 122

Inefficiency of the Inquisition 123

Cardinal Borromeo’s persecuting Zeal 124

Philip II proposes to introduce the Spanish Inquisition 125

Popular Resistance--General Opposition of Italian Bishops 126

Philip II abandons the Project 128

Political and Commercial Questions affecting Lombardy--Intercourse with Heretics 129

Cardinal Borromeo stimulates Persecution 131

His Mission to Mantua 133

The Roman Inquisition perfected--Its Struggle to exclude Swiss Heresy 135

It is suppressed by Maria Theresa in 1775 137