The old cardinal, his name was Felice Peretti, offered himself as pope when he saw that two aristocratic Italian families could not agree on a single candidate. And this was very important: the pope crowned European monarchs, so it was a very monetary position.But Borgia, for example, wanted theirs, and Barberini hiss.And then this old man said: "My children, you can't agree now, and we can't endlessly sit on bread and water at this conclave. I suggest you choose me! I am an old and sick man, I will soon die. And they chose him under the name of Sixtus V. And he immediately rejoiced, immediately recovered and ruled for a long time, swallowing all his rivals. In fact, as in an anecdote, he was regularly cold at their funerals.