Minor Notes.
_Pasquinade._--To the "Pasquinades" adduced in Vol. iv., p. 292., I may
add one of a different character, though of older date, on a former
Cardinal. On the decease of Pope Clement IX. in 1669, Cardinal Bona was
named amongst those worthy of the tiara, when a French Jesuit (Pere
Dangieres), in reply to a line inscribed, as usual upon those occasions,
on the statue of Pasquin, "Papa Bona sarebbe un solecisma," made the
following epigram:
"Grammaticae leges plerumque Ecclesia spernit:
Fors erit ut liceat dicere Papa Bona.
Vana solaecismi ne te conturbet imago,
Esset Papa bonus, si Bona Papa foret."
The successful candidate, however, was Cardinal Emilio Altieri, who
assumed the name of Clement X., in April, 1670: Bona (Giov.) died in
October, 1674.