The _Popes_ know very well by experience, that there is no way to preserve their _Nipotismo_ from the persecution which ordinarily they are to expect from their Successours; whensoever their Successors are such as come with pre-occupation against them, and finde in the Government of the Church and State so many abuses, which do quicken their indignation against the precedent _Nipotismo_. This is a very great tye upon them in their administration, which appears if once they come to cast it off. _Paul_ the 4th. who had much of a barbarous and inhumane humour in him, more becoming a Souldier than a Pope; as soon as he had banished his Nephew from _Rome_, did do things with a great deal more resolution and insolence than before: insomuch that it seemed, as if he had a minde to reduce all the world under his Laws, and force Christendom to follow the dictates of his _Capriccio_. The Ministers of Princes who had to do with him, did extremely complain of this his proceeding; for he did no less than threaten them all upon every occasion: and one day particularly as the Spanish Ambassador was complaining to him of some occasion of disgust which his Holiness had given the Crown of _Spain_, he answered him in a fume, _That he had now no Nephews to care for_; _and that suppos’d_, _That his actions did deserve to be blamed_, _he little cared_: _for with his death all resentments would vanish_: meaning he was no longer concerned for his Relations, for whose sake he had all this while contained himself within the limits of the Papal Dignity. Some say that _Julius_ the second did bear a great affection to his Kindred, but did forbear any demonstrations of kindeness to them out of a more solid Principle of Love; which was, That they might not receive any reproaches or injuries after his death, for those faults which he might have committed in his life time: for having resolved to do nothing but make War, and lead a Souldiers life, as indeed he did, he would infallibly have drawn the revenge of all his Enemies upon his kindred, to whom therefore he shewed himself averse. And indeed it was wisely done of him, and kindely; for it was impossible but so warlike a humour as his was, must needs offend many Princes, who all would have been revenged upon his _Nipotismo_, as Authors, and Partakers of their Uncle’s Designs. If _Urban_ had done the same thing, the persecution of the _Barberins_ had not been at all, or at least had not been so violent; but the great Authority with which they appeared under him, did make Princes believe that all the _Pope’s_ actions were of their plotting and managing. So, when the Duke of _Parma_, and the Princes his allyes made War against the Church, they declared to all the world that they had no design to offend the _Pope_; but only to be revenged of the _Barberins_, whose ambition they accused as the Motive of the War.