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858 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
Whether Clement relished the nuncio's plain
speaking or not, it was impossible to dispense with
his services at this critical moment, when the restora-
tion of the Pope's temporal power depended on the
Emperor's pleasure. Accordingly, the Count con-
tinued to act as representative of the Holy See at
the imperial court, and kept a watchful eye over the
Pope's interests during the following year—the last,
as it was to prove, of his chequered life.
Whether Clement relished the nuncio's plain
speaking or not, it was impossible to dispense with
his services at this critical moment, when the restora-
tion of the Pope's temporal power depended on the
Emperor's pleasure. Accordingly, the Count con-
tinued to act as representative of the Holy See at
the imperial court, and kept a watchful eye over the
Pope's interests during the following year—the last,
as it was to prove, of his chequered life.