Did Cardinal Laurenti refuse to be pope?

No one could actually be forced to be Pope if they did not want to be; Cardinals can resign if they so desire. But it would be considered very inappropriate for a Cardinal to refuse an appointment to the Papacy. In principle, all Cardinals are too modest to wish to become Pope; the appetite for power is not regarded as a virtue by Catholic theology. But then, recognizing that they really would have preferred if someone else had been chosen, Cardinals must also be sufficiently obedient to the will of the Church to accept their own election as Pope.