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 LULLY'S WRITINGS. 587 it if false ; but Bzovius was a Dominican whose bitterness on the subject is seen in his stigmatizing Lully as a vagabond swindler. Certain it is that in the prolonged and ardent contest which raged over the question of Lully's orthodoxy in the papal court, the Do- minicans, with successive popes on their side, were never able to produce the original nor offer any evidence of its authenticity.* In Aragon the decision of 1419 was regarded as settling the question. Royal letters in favor of Lullism were issued by Alonso Y. in U15 and 1449, by Ferdinand the Catholic in 1483 and 1503, by Charles Y. in 1526, and by Philip II. in 1597 ; the latter mon- arch, indeed, had great relish for Lully's writings, some of which he habitually carried with him on his journeys to read on the way, and in the library of the Escorial many copies of them were found annotated with his own hand. This royal favor was need- ed in the curious controversy which followed. Lully's name had passed into the received catalogues of heretics, and as late as 1608 it w T as included in the list published by the Doctor of Sorbonne, Gabriel du Preau. Paul IY., in 1559, put it in the first papal In- dex Expurgatorius. When this came to be published in Spain, Bishop Jayme Cassador and the inquisitors suspended it and re- ferred the matter to the consejo de la suprema, which ordered the entry to be borrado, or expunged. At the Council of Trent, Doc- tor Juan Yilleta, acting for Spain, presented a petition in favor of Lully, which was considered in a special congregation, Septem- ber 1, 1563, and a unanimous decision was reached, confirming all the condemnations passed on Eymerich for falsehood, and or- dering the Index of Paul IY. to be expurgated by striking out all that related to Lully. This was a secret determination of the council, and was not allowed to appear in the published acts. It settled the matter for a time, but the question was revived in 1578, when Francisco Pegna reprinted Eymerich's book "with the special sanction of Gregory XIII., bringing anew before the world the bull of Gregory XL and the errors condemned in Lully's writings. Gregory XIII. ordered Pegna to examine the papal registers for the contested bull. Those in Rome were found imperfect, and the missing portions were sent for from Avignon, but the most 259-61.— Nic. Anton. 1. c. No. 78.— Ripoll II. 290.
 * Hist. Gen. de Mall. III. 59, 83-6,— Pelayo, I. 498, 787-88.— D'Argentre I. i.