398 PIETRO GIANNONE. 



His dominion extends not only over the earth, but 

 likewife over the fea and all the iflands thereof, as Bo- 

 niface VIII. has proved by his example in the Medi- 

 terranean, and Alexander VI. in the Welle rn ocean. 

 The latter drew a line from one pole to the other, and 

 prefented the kings of Caftille with the new-difcovered 

 world. — I fried tears of tendernefs, whenever I read in 

 a lerTon for the fecond noclurn of the anniverfary of 

 St. Gregory VII. that, being the fon of a carpenter, he 

 was one day, with other children his fellows, playing 

 with the fhavings that fell from a piece of timber which 

 a workman was planing ; and, though he was not yet 

 able to read, he accidentally formed with them the- 

 words of the royal prophet: " Dominabitur a mari 

 ufque ad .mare." Mann pueri, fays the breviary, 

 .diclante numine, quo fignificaretur ejus fore ampliffi- 

 mam in mundo aucloritatem. Julius III. had perfect 

 right to caufe a medal to be fxruck, which is to be 

 feen in the imperial cabinet at Vienna, with the in- 

 scription : D. Julius III. reipublic. chriftianae Rex ac 

 Pater. 



IV. I confefs, that the authority of the pope of Rome 

 extends not only over the furface of the earth and 

 the fea ; but likewife into the two fubterranean worlds, 

 into purgatory and into hell. And herein I follow St. 

 Antoninus, archbilhop of Florence, who fays ; that 

 the pope has fo great an authority over purgatory,, that 

 by his indigencies, he can deliver as many of the 

 fouls that are, tormented there, as he pleafes, and im- 

 mediately place them iii heaven and the abodes of the 



blefled. 



