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 TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH. 233 north we find him this year appointing Adalbert© de' Gamberti as podesta in Piacenza. Before the close of 1268 Pallavicino died, broken with age and in utter misery, while besieged in his castle of Gusaliggio by the Piacenzans and Parmesans. For a presumed heretic he made a good end, surrounded by Dominicans and Franciscans, confessing his sins and receiving the viaticum, so that, as a pious chronicler observes, we may humbly believe that his soul was saved. Despite the calumnies of the papalists, he left the reputation of a man of sterling worth, of lofty aims, knd of great capacity. As for Eainerio Saccone, the last ghmpse we have of him is in July, 1262, when Urban lY. orders him to come with all possible speed for consultation on a matter of moment defraying, from the proceeds of the confiscations, aU expenses for horses and other necessaries on the journey. His expulsion from Milan had evidently not diminished his importance.* Under these circumstances, the long interregnum of nearly three years, which occurred after the death of Clement lY, in 1268, made little difference. Henceforth there was to be no ref- uge for heresy. The Inquisition could be organized everywhere, and could perform its functions unhampered. By this time too' its powers, its duties, and its mode of procedure had become thoroughly defined and universally recognized, and neither prelate nor potentate dared to call them in question. As already stated m 1254, Innocent lY. had divided the Peninsula between the two Orders, giving Genoa and Lombardy to the Dominicans, and cen- tral and southern Italy to the Franciscans. To the provinces of Eome and Tuscany were aUotted two inquisitors each, while for that of St. Francis, or Spoleto, one was deemed sufficient but m 1261 each inquisitor was furnished with two assistants,' and the provincials were instructed to appoint as many more as mi^ht be asked for, so that the holy work might be prosecuted with full vigor. Lombardy, as we have seen, had eight inquisitors, and when the Dominicans divided that province, in 1304, the number was increased to ten, seven being assigned to Upper and three to Lower Lombardy. For a while the March of Treviso and Ko- ^ Ripoll I. 427, 514^-Campi, Dell' Hist. Eccles. di Piacenza, P. ii. pp. 318-31 -Phihppi Bergomat. Supplem. Chron. ann. 1261.