Tensions with the College of Cardinals come…

Tensions with the College of Cardinals come to the fore in 1466 when Paul II, in an attempt to downsize redundant offices,  proceeds to annul the college of abbreviators, whose function it is to formulate papal documents.

A storm of indignation arises, inasmuch as rhetoricians and poets with humanist training, of which Paul deeply disapproves, have long been accustomed to benefiting from employment in such positions.

Bartolomeo Platina, who is one of these, writes a threatening letter to the Pope, and is imprisoned but later discharged.