trifling Conjectures concerning this Wand concludes that Moses carried it to the Mountain where he dy'd and that it was afterwards plac'd in his Tomb. But after all it was never known what became either of this or of the Ark. Moses's Rod. The ‡ 'T is the Opinion of some Authors That Theodosius the Great gave this Nail to St. Ambrose others say that Saint went to look for it in the Shop of a certain Ironmonger at Rome call'd Paolino where he was warn'd in a Dream that he should find it Nail of the Crucifixion of which they say Constantine made a Bit for a Bridle is the most respected Relick in Milan 'T is kept on the great Altar surrounded with five Lights which burn night and day In the year 1576. Cardinal Borromeo call'd St. Charles carried it in a solemn procession to stop the Plague he walk'd bare-foot with a great Rope about his Neck tho' he was also cloth'd with the usual Ornaments of a Cardinal The * This Pavement is not yet finish'd The Charge of it will amount to Threescore and six thousand Two hundred and ninety Crowns without reckoning that of the Quire which has already cost Five thousand Two hundred and fifty Morigi Pavement of this Church is finer and more solid than that of St. Peter's at Rome where the Floor is laid with thin Leaves of Marble which begin already to cleave and will in a short time be quite rais'd up whereas here the pieces are very thick There are always Masons hewing Stone and Women spinning sewing and selling Fruit in the middle of the Church besides 't is dark and many parts of it imperfect All which Considerations laid together will easily convince you that the inside of it can neither charm nor surprize the Eye of a curious Beholder We went up to the Steeple from whence we had a view not only of Milan but of four or five other Cities in the vast Plain of Lombardy We discover'd also the Alps which are united to the Appennine Mountains towards Genoua The great Bell bears the name of St. Ambrose it contains seven feet in diameter and weighs Thirty thousand pounds Over against the Church there is a pretty large Place where in the Evening I usually observ'd about thirty Coaches which mov'd and stopp'd from time to time that the People within 'em might see those who pass'd along The place for taking the Air in Coaches is a great unpav'd Street in the Suburbs which is sprinkl'd every day with water * And therefore call'd Strada Marina as the Voorhout is at the Hague The Ambrosian Library was so nam'd by Cardinal Frederic Borromeo Ph. Vannemachero and Ch. Torre affirm That this Library contains Fourteen thousand Manuscripts but mention not the number of the printed Books It was much augmented by the addition of Vincent Pinelli's Library R. Lassels Rufinus's Version of Josephus is one of the oldest Manuscripts in this Library G. Burnet Fabio Mangoni built it It contains several Apartments The great Hall is 75 foot long and 30 broad It could not be made larger because of the Churches and Houses that surround it Besides the Books and Pictures 't is enrich'd with several Collections of very fair Medals and with rare and curious Pieces of antique Sculpture and Architecture with others moulded on the Originals Boschi wrote a Treatise De Origine Statu Bibliothecae Ambrosianae C. Torre Archbishop of Milan who founded it and dedicated it to St. Ambrose I read in a little Description of this Library printed at Tortona That it contains twelve thousand Manuscripts and seventy two thousand printed Volumes but we must not depend on that Author's Testimony for it appears plainly to the Eye that there are not so many and besides the Library-keeper told us that there were not above Forty thousand in all This Library is kept open two hours every Morning and Afternoon there is a Fire in it during the Winter and there are also Seats and Desks with all the other Conveniencies that are to be found in the Library of St. Victor at Paris They shew'd us a great Book of Mechanical Draughts which they told us Leonard de Vinci wrote with his own hand The Writing is extreamly awry and can hardly be read without a Perspective-glass There is an Inscription on the Wall which says That a certain King of England whose Name is not mention'd offer'd Three thousand Pistols for this Volume Adjoining to this Library there is an Academy for Painting where we saw many good Pictures Among the rest I remember one of Clement the Tenth which resembles a Print so exactly that we were all deceiv'd by it The Citadel is a regular Hexagon well lin'd furnish'd with store of Cannon and surrounded with a good Ditch and Counterscarps but the old Walls should be pull'd down with all those Towers Forts and other antique Works which are contain'd in the Citadel besides a considerable number of Houses for if all this useless Rubbish were taken away the place would be infinitely better After we had walk'd round the Ramparts we enter'd into a Hall in the Governor's Lodgings to see a score of Soldiers who were exercising their Postures and practising Spanish Sarabands against the Solemnity of Corpus-Christi-day when they were to dance before the Procession The principal Buildings in Milan without mentioning the Churches and Convents are the Palaces of the Governor and Archbishop the Houses of the Marquess Homodeo Count Barth Arese and Signior T. Marini the * This Structure was founded by Charles Borromeo and built by Joseph Mela. A double Portico 176 foot and 3 inches long and 16 foot 10 inches and a half broad goes round the great square Court on the inside The first Order is Doric and the second Ionic Over the great Portal stands Piety having on her Breast the Sun who is the Father of Light and on the other side Wisdom with swelling Breasts full of Provision for her Children C. Torre Seminary the Colleges of the Switzers of Breva and of the Jesuits the Town-house and the chief Hospital the great Court of the last-nam'd Structure is a Hundred and twenty paces square with two rows or stories of Portico's about the inside both which are supported on every side by Two and forty Pillars of a kind of Marble found in the neighbouring Alps every Pillar consisting of a single Piece The Body of the Edifice is of Brick moulded and fashion'd into several Ornaments of Architecture The old Hospital is join'd to this and both together make but one The †Begun 1489 by Duke Lewis Sforza call'd the Moor and finish'd by Lewis XII 1507. Bramante was the Architect of this Structure Lazaret or place appointed for the entertainment of those that are sick of Pestilential Distempers depends on the great Hospital and is situated about two or three hundred paces from the City It consists of four Galleries join'd in a square each containing Ninety two Chambers and
have their defects It is seated in a flat Country and hath no Suburbs The Houses are built of that red kind of Stone of which I have spoken before or of Wood or Plaister covered with Slates The Meine which is a considerably large River leaves it on the Right A Stone Bridge which is four hundred paces long makes the Communication between Francfort and Saxenhausen Francfort is an Imperial City and hath a small Territory under its Government The Senate are Lutherans as also the greatest part of the Inhabitants The Roman Catholicks are in possession of the principal Church in which the Ceremony of anointing the Emperour is performed But they only carry the Host incognito and make no Processions in publick The Protestants whom they call Cavinists have the exercise of their Religion at Bochenheim which is a small hour's Walk from thence in the County of Hannau They are obliged to Marry and Christen in the Lutheran Churches We took a view * It was burned in the Year 1460. with the Records of the City Charlemain granted its freedom with very great Priviledges in the Town-house of the Chamber in which the Election of the Emperour is made and where is kept one of the Originals of the Golden Bull This Chamber hath nothing Magnificent there are only old Tapistry Hangings a great Table with a green Carpet and great Elbow-Chairs of black Velvet for the Electors On the side of this Chamber is the Hall where certain Ceremonies are observed which succeed the Election and when they are over the Emperour descends from the Hall and goes to the Church where he is Crowned The Golden Bull is a Book of twenty four Leaves of Parchment in Quarto which are sewed together and covered with another piece of Parchment without any Ornament The Seal is fastned to it by a silken String of many Colours and is covered with Gold so as it resembles a Medal It is two Inches and a half in breadth and a large Line in thickness Upon the Seal is the Emperour Charles IV. Seated and Crowned holding a Scepter in his Right-hand and the Globe in his Left The Shield of the Empire is on his Right and that of Bohemia on his Left And about it is written Carolus quartus divinâ favente clementiâ Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus and on each side near the two Scutcheons Et Bohemiae Rex On the Reverse there is a kind of a Gate of a Castle between two Towers which apparently denotes Rome this Verse being written about Roma Caput mundi regit orbis fraena rotundi And upon the Gate between the two Towers Roma aurea This Bull was given at Nuremberg in the Year 1356. by the Emperour Charles IV. with the consent of all the States of the Empire The design of the Institutors was that this Edict should be perpetual and irrerevocable yet * Particularly in the Treaties of Westphalia many Innovations have been made since It describes particularly the form of the Election of the Emperour or †The Emperour and the King of the Romans in the sence of the Bull are but one Person In it he is often called Head of the Faithful and first Prince of the Christian World The Bull is written in Latin the King of the Romans whom it frequently stiles the Temporal Head of the Christian World It regulates many things that relate to the Electors touching their Rank their Assemblies their Rights and Immunities the Right of Succession to the Electorate and the Manner after which every one of them is to perform his Function in publick Ceremonies It ordains these Princes to assemble once in the Year to settle the Affairs of the Empire The Elector of Saxony in conjunction with the Elector Palatine are declared Regents after the Death of the Emperour But things as you know having been changed in favour of the Duke of Bavaria that Elector pretends to the Regency 'T is a question whether the Vicariat be affixed to the Electorate in which the Duke of Bavaria was invested or if it remain to the House of the Counts Palatines Now there is a King of the Romans he is perpetual Vicar and Heir of the Empire It was for this reason that Philip II. had only the Kingdom of Spain for his share and that Ferdinand his Uncle who in the Life of Charles V. was elected King of the Romans came to be Emperour Francfort is the place appointed by the Bull for the Election of the Emperour Nevertheless Henry II. was chosen at Mentz and Henry III. at Aix la Chappelle This is no longer observed some have been also Elected at Cologne and others at Ausbourg and Ratishonne It was also ordained that the Emperour should be first Crowned at Aix which for a long time hath not been practised Every Elector may have * On the day of Electing the Emperour there is a whole Oxe served in a Dish roasted larded and stuffed with Wild Fowls and Venison After the Feast the Oxe is left to the People Borjou Dign Temp. two hundred Men as well for his Guard as his Attendance during the time of the Election And the Citizens of Francfort are to take care that no Strangers be found in their City at that time upon pain of losing their Priviledges This Bull contains many Regulations which I shall not at present relate The famous Treacle of Francfort is made there by Doctor Peters who is a skilful Apothecary and in other respects a very curious Person There are more than an hundred several Drugs that enter this Composition which are to be seen ranged in Pyramids on a long Table The Doctor hath many Antiquities and other Rarities amongst which he highly values a Stone taken out of a humane Body which is as big as ones head and cost him 1600 Crowns There are in this place a great number of Jews but they are as beggarly as those of Amsterdam are rich They wear their Beards piqued and have black Cloaks with puffed Ruffs they go from Tavern to Tavern to sell any thing to Strangers but being reputed Thieves you must take heed of ' em Moreover here is a Task imposed on them to run and fetch Water when any Fire happens in the City Of Francfort see further p. 117. You know the Fairs of Francfort contribute much to the Fame and Riches of that City There are Three in a Year which bring a considerable Trade to it The University was founded in the Year 1506 by Joachim and Albert of Brandenburgh I am SIR Yours c. At Francfort Nov. 7. 1687. LETTER VIII SIR AS we took Coach at Francfort to proceed on our Journey we observed the Coachman to put a little Salt upon each of his Horses with certain little Ceremonies which made part of the Mystery and this as he told us was to bring us good Luck and to preserve us from Charms and Witchcraft during our Voyage We passed the Rhine at Gernsheim and
since I perceive you insist on this Argument I must tell you plainly that it is a very unwarrantable piece of Partiality not to give it a worse name blindly to embrace the Opinions of any Man not divinely inspir'd whatever figure he may make in the World A Man of Sence will never suffer his Judgment to be byass'd either by the Voice of the Publick or by the Numbers or pretended Authority of Writers that are dignified by great Titles Three quarters of the Christian World are meer Slaves to those ancient Writers whom they call The Fathers tho' 't is certain the good Instructions they have left us are mix'd with a great number of dangerous false insipid and ridiculous Opinions I thought to have ended our Controversie here but I believe it will not be improper to remove another Difficulty before I leave this Subject I must confess I was somewhat surpriz'd to find that instead of Mr. Chevreau you had conjur'd up against me so terrible an Adversary as the famous * David Blondel Blondel who is the Pillar and Bulwark of Antipopessism and whose bare Name has gain'd abundance of Proselytes to his Opinions He was a man of Learning and Wit besides he was a Protestant and consequently was believ'd to have no other Interest than that of Truth in the Success of the Quarrel which he had espous'd 'T is certain his Authority has been always a Stone of Stumbling to those who are wont to make Prejudice their Rule of Faith The Name of the Author is the strongest Argument in his Book and it is that alone which has given the greatest Blow to his Enemies I have read this Piece over and over with attention and can assure you it is written after a manner very proper to blind the Eyes and confound the Judgments of the generality of Readers But those who will not suffer themselves to be impos'd upon and still look for something that is solid and material will not find any thing in the whole Book worthy of that Character I could fill a Volume with Observations and Criticisms on this Work for I have made some Reflexions on every Page and perhaps every Period in it This is not a proper place for 'em but I may find an opportunity hereafter to communicate 'em to you in the mean time I shall content my self with giving you a general Idea of it accompanied with a few particular Remarks according to the method by which I have anatomiz'd it Mr. Blondel begins with a Declaration that gives a wound to his Cause which all his Artifices can never palliate The Force of Truth and of authentick Testimonies which he receiv'd from * He means Salmasius those to whom he neither would nor durst refuse to give credit extorted this ingenuous Confession from him That the History of the Female Pope is contain'd in the Augsburg Copies of Anastasius which I mention'd before You see what Advantage he has given to his Enemies and what Stratagem d' ye think he uses to recover his Ground Could you imagine that a man of his parts would have recourse to the poorest Evasion that ever baffl'd Author was guilty of or that he would start an imaginary Difficulty that he might afterwards the more easily grapple with this Wind-mill in his own Brain He is sensible there is nothing but dry Blows to be got by meddling with these original Manuscripts and that they would be too hard for all his Rhetoric and therefore he e'en very fairly leaves 'em as he found 'em without ever mentioning 'em afterwards and finds out another Anastasius at Paris written about Two hundred years ago which contains also the same History but accompanied with some circumstances which he assures us imply several Contradictions And It seems adds he that the Parisian Anastasius should give light to those of Augsburg At first he dares not advance such a Paradox but with an it seems and without considering whether that which seems to him does also seem so to others he builds his Discourse on this uncertain Foundation and at the same time tho' tacitely establishes his Supposition for a certain Truth Thus with his Anastasius of Two hundred years he has found the Secret to confute all the other Copies of that Author without citing one of ' em But what is still worse his Anastasius is a private Piece which he shews only by Shreds and dares not produce If I were not restrain'd by fear of injuring Mr. Blondel's Sincerity I should be strongly tempted to suspect that his Manuscript was never seen by any Man but himself and at least I think I may be allow'd to suppose that he durst not quote the whole passage lest it might furnish his Adversaries with Weapons against himself In the first place then we must believe Mr. Blondel upon his own single Testimony that there was really such an Anastasius and such a Passage in it as he cites but his Manuscript might have been supposititious or at least a modern and even by his own confession an uncertain Copy since he tells us it had been often taken for a Platina 'T is strange that any man that can read should not be able to distinguish Anastasius from Platina Secondly After we have blindly believ'd all that this Author is pleas'd to tell us concerning his pretended Anastasius we must extend our Complaisance further and upon the credit of his bare it seems either believe or suppose his tacite Inference that this Manuscript not only may serve to illustrate the Anastasius's of Augsburg as he pretends at first but is a true Copy of these and even of the most ancient and exact Anastasius's for if this supposition be false all his Arguments must fall to the Ground I may venture to affirm that this Consideration alone is sufficient to discredit Mr. Blondel's famous Book the main design of which should have been to destroy and confute by clear and solid Reasons the positive Testimony of such a learn'd and uninteress'd Eye-witness as Anastasius Before I proceed to communicate to you some other Remarks on Mr. Blondel's Treatise I must desire you not to expect to find 'em all accompanied with Demonstrations I may perhaps for brevity's sake omit the Proofs of some of my Assertions but I shall be ready to supply that Defect when you please In the general 't is certain that this Book may be entirely and unanswerably confuted out of it self and that far from destroying the History of the Popess the Truth of that Event may be solidly demonstrated by Reasons drawn from this very Treatise These are two Positions which I dare confidently assert and undertake to maintain Among all the Contradictions with which this Discourse is stuff'd I shall only desire you to observe that two thirds of it are spent in litigious Chronological Cavils and vain Rhodomontadoes against the Authors of our History After which he forgets himself so far Above all the Chronology of the Bishops or
they make much of it as a precious Memorial if they do not worship it as a Relique Their Lance puts me in mind of their Arsenal which is one of the most renowned in Germany In the Year 1453 Mahomet II. besieged Constantinople and battered it with many Pieces of Cannon of Four hundred pound Ball there was one amongst the rest so heavy that there were twenty Yoke of Oxen to draw it Calvisius There are two great Halls in it each of two hundred and fifty paces long and well replenished with Arms. We counted three hundred Pieces of Cannon but to speak truth the greatest part of the other Arms savour of Antiquity Musquets and Harquebuses Casks and Cuirasses in great Number fine Hangings for Arsenals and this is all There are many of those great Cannons of a monstrous Bore which they call Mermaids and Basilisks and the biggest of these Pieces carries a three hundred pound Ball. We also saw the Library it is in a Cloyster which formerly belonged to the Dominicans and contains as they tell you twenty thousand Volumes This was collected out of the Ruines of many Convents in the Time of the Reformation The most ancient Manuscript is of nine hundred Years it is a Copy of the Gospels with the Prayers and Hymns formerly used in the Greek Church The Character is very different from that now in use It is a Treatise of Predestination I observed a Book which was printed at Spire in the Year 1446. but there might be an Errour in the Cyphers for they shewed us another of the Impression of Faustus at Mentz in 1459. at the End whereof there is an Advertisement by which it is said That this Book was not written by the Hand but was printed by an admirable Secret newly invented 'T is probable that this was the first Impression which was made at Mentz and if it be so there is no ground to suppose that another Book was printed at Spire thirteen Years before nor had Faustus any reason to boast so much of his new Secret I have heard that there is another Impression of Durandus's Officiale at Basil printed by Faustus in the same Year 1549. They keep in this Library many Rarities and curious Antiquities but they are not comparable to those that are in the Cabinet of Mr. Viati We saw it in a great Chamber quite fill'd with divers Arms of all Countries all Uses and all Fashions It is scarce to be conceived how a single Man and he a private Person who hath not the Means of a Prince or a very great Lord could heap together so many things for the Number is very great and I believe brought from all the four Quarters of the World He shewed us the Experiment of a Wind-Gun which is a very pretty but a most destructive Invention because with this Engine great Mischiefs may be done a far off and without any Noise From this Chamber you may go into another where there are rare Pictures Medals curious Works ancient and modern Idols Shells Plants Minerals and other natural Productions The Town-House is very great and has a very beautiful and well-proportion'd Front but it wants a Court before it When we went from thence our Friends brought us to the City Cellar which is two hundred and fifty Paces long and contains as they tell us Twenty thousand Aums of Wine that is to say Twenty thousand middle-siz'd Tuns We must allow it to be a very fair Cellar but the truth is such People as we know not how to enjoy all the Pleasures of it The Germans are you know Germanorum vivere bibere est strange Drinkers but there are no People in the World more obliging more civil or more officious and yet they have terrible Customs as to the Point of Drinking Every thing is done there by drinking and they drink in all they do There is not time given to speak three Words in a Visit but presently comes the Collation or at least some large Jacks of Wine with a Plate full of Crusts of Bread hash'd with Pepper and Salt a fatal Preparative for puny Topers But before we proceed I must give you an account of those sacred and inviolable Laws that are afterwards to be observ'd Every Draught must be a Health and assoon as you have emptied your Glass you must present it full to him whose Health you drunk You must never refuse the Glass which is presented and you must drink it off to the last drop Do but reflect a little on these Customs and see how it is possible to leave off drinking And indeed they never make an end * The Duke of Rohan sai h in his Voyage that the Germans have succeeded better than all the Mathematicians of the World in finding out the perpetual Motion by the continual Agitation of their Cups but carouse in a perpetual Round to drink in Germany is to drink eternally Pardon my Digression and judge of our troublesome Entertainment in the Cellar You must do penance there for some time and at last hide your self behind the Casks steal away and make your escape You must further know that the Glasses are as much respected in this Country as the Wine is beloved They place them all en Parade The greatest part of the Chambers are wainscotted even to two thirds of the Walls and the Glasses are ranged all about upon the Cornish of the Wainscot like Pipes of Organs They begin with the Little and end with the Great ones and these Great ones are always us'd and must be empty'd at a draught when there is any Health of Importance At going out of the Cellar we went to Consort where we hoped we should do nothing but sing but the Bread the Pepper the Salt and the Wine followed in such abundance that an Air was no sooner finished but the whole Company rose up to drink Divers Habits of the Women at Nuremberg Vol. 1. P. 73. The Husband was in Black Cloaths with a Cloak over-laid with Lace a great Ruff and a little Crown of Gold Plate-Lace above his Peruke But the Wife's Dress will be a little more difficult to describe The best Account I can give you of it is to tell you That in framing to your self an Idea of her Head-Tire you must fansie a Mixture of Plate-Wire gilded like a Bob-Peruke half a Foot higher than her Forehead and very much frizzed and swelled out on the Sides This was ordered after such a manner that in all the Thickness of this Bush there was no more space or distance between the Threads than was sufficient to fasten to them an infinite Number of little Plates of Gold round polished and shining which hung both within and without and waved with the least Motion Her Habit was Black with long Skirts resembling the Hongrelines which were not very long since used in France The Body of this little Cassock which was cut very short had a Gold Lace over all the Seams
Cariot with Wheels and Sails 11 Charles IV. Emperour 51 Charles I. King of Naples caused Conradin's Head to be cut off 304 Curious Cherry-Stone 308 Church Common to the Lutherans and Papists 55 Church common for three Religions 60 Church with eight Doors 75 St. Justin's Church 137 Churches of Naples very fine 286 St. Christopher's Pole and Palm-Tree 275 His Nail 275 Chiusa a Fort 114 A large Church-yard 75 Church-yards rare in Italy 265 Cicero's Palace 276 Circello Mountain 264 Circumcisions different 123 Citta Castellana 259 Cities frequent in Holland 2 30 Cities ruin'd by Beasts 45 Citta di la Vigna 262 Civenchu a Bridge in Japan 183 St. Clara 250 Climats 87 Clitumnus 252 Clousea a Cavern in Perigort 337 Coaches drawn by Mules at Naples 309 Coblentz 42 Cocceius 317 Coffer little one furnished with Pistols 169 Cologn 33 Columns brought by the Devil 67 Columns in the State of Venice 220 Of the Temple of Solomon 279 Comedies of Venice 193 Comedians crush'd to pieces 226 Companions of Ulysses 264 Concord Church of the Palatinate where there are Three Religions exercis'd 60 Concubines 188 Confession of Ausbourg 84 Cord or Rope of Judas 103 Golden Cord or Halter 165 Coronet of the Duke of Venice 163 Corona Pudicitiae 124 Cork-Trees 266 Corselets of Gold 163 Coster Inventer of Printing first Book which he printed his Statue and Inscription at Harlem 19 Council of Trent 112 Of Rimini 223 Counts Palatine 43 Countess of Henneberg brought to Bed of 365 Children 13 A large Cross-Bow 36 Cross-Bow which discharged 34 Arrows at once 102 Pocket Cross-Bow 169 Crown of Charles the Great 67 Crown which spake 292 Crowns of Cyprus and Candie 163 Crown of our Lady of Loretto 235 Cruelty 141 169 273 Crucifix with a Peruke 39 Which approved of the Council of Trent by bowing its Head 111 Made of an unknown Matter Ibid. Crucifix drawn from a Man crucified by Michael Angelo 289 Which spoke to Thomas Aquinas 291 Which spoke to Pius V. Ibid. Which bowed its Head seeing a Cannon-Bullet coming Ibid. Which spoke to a sacrilegious Person 294 A long Culverin 83 A large Cup of a single Torquoise 163 Courtezans at Venice 87 88 89 D. Dante 's 219 Delf 10 Description of Holland 1 2 c. Of the Holy House 230 c. Devil appears in the shape of a Hog 305 Doesberg 31 Doge of Venice 204 Door of the Wood of a Vine 218 Dove See Pigeon Drunkards 71 Drusus 47 Duisberg 32 Dukes of Aquitain and Normandy 205 Duras Charles de 299 Dusseldorp 33 E. Ehrenbreistein 43 Election of the Emperour 50 51 Election Miraculous 218 Electorate of Mentz 48 49 Elysian Fields 340 Cardinals when first call'd their Eminencies 301 Emperours how Elected 50 51 Epigram for the City of Venice 344 Epitaph of Pope Lucius III. 117 Of Titus Livius 140 Of Conradin 305 Of Ariosto 215 Of Sannazarius 343 Of Dante 219 Of a Maid who died just before Marriage 295 Of Robert King of Naples 296 Of the Marquess of Pescara 297 Of Three Brothers poisoned by their Uncle 303 Several Epitaphs at Naples 293 c. Of Joan I. Queen of Naples 299 Of a King of Fez 300 Of Innocent IV. Ibid. Of a Bishop who refused the Cardinal's Hat 302 Equites Liberi 42 Statues erected in honour of Erasmus 8 Etymology of St. Longin 264 Of St. Tiphines 264 Eve created by the Virgin Mary 85 F. Fabian Pope how elected 219 Fano 224 Fancies of Men 107 Ferrara 214 Feasts of the Carnival at Venice 197 Feast of the Ascension 200 Ficus Indica 264 Fisherman makes himself Head of a Common-Wealth at Naples 305 Way Flaminia 259 268. Flux and Reflux 171 229 Foetus's of all Ages 30 Foligno 250 Fondi 272 Fountains fine 66 67 246 Fountains salt 106 Fountains of Brass 258 Forrest of Olive-Trees 255 Fossa Nuova 267 Foxes White 105 Frier Paulo 212 Francfort 50 Frenchmen fear'd 281 Francis of Assisa call'd St. Francis 251 Frankendal 59 Frederick I. call'd Barbarossa at the Feet of Pope Alexander III. 161 166 Frederick Arch-Duke 98 Funeral Pomp 124 G. Galeasses 200 Garigliario a River 282 Gates of Brass at Ravenna 220 Geese fall dead flying over a Plain in Yorkshire 333 Gelt Persons 211 Germans great drinkers 71 Holy Ghost in form of a Dove 218 Giant 9 Giants Bones 59 Girls sent to the Convent in their Infancy 186 Glass as big as a Bell 72 Glasses honour'd in Germany Ibid. 100 Glasses in a Pepper-Corn 85 Glass-Windows rare in Italy 229 Glaucus 264 Globe us'd at the Emperour's Coronation 68 Goldsmiths Work 85 Golf Adriatick frozen 146 Belongs to the Venetians 200 Its Shores 224 Gondola of the Wood of a Palm-Tree turn'd into Stone 92 Gondola's of Venice 197 Gondolier's of Venice Jacks of all Trades Ibid. Gospel of St. Mark 164 Government of Venice often changed 174 Grates of the Venetian Nuns 210 Greeks of Venice their Ceremonies Religion c. 178 Greeks excommunicate the Pope 180 Grotto of Pausilypus 316 Of the Dog 318 Of Sibylla Cumaea 335 Grotto's cool 263 Grusse 104 Gueret Bastiense a Giant 9 Gueux 36 H. Habits extraordinary 86 101 Habits of the noble Venetians 202 Great Halls 82 90 138 166 White Hares 104 Hariaden or Chairaden Barbarossa King of Algier and Admiral to the Turk 273 Harlem 18 PRINTING first invented there 19 Red Hats when given to Cardinals 301 Hatton II. Arch-Bishop of Mentz eaten by the Rats 44 45 Hague 10 Heidelberg 62 Helvia Racina 247 Hermeistein 43 Herod 45 Hieroglyphicks 56 118 History of the Rhine 17 Of Milser 96 Of a Lady stabb'd 141 Of the Holy House 230 c. Of the Bishop of Corsica 251 Of Three Brothers poison'd by their Uncle 303 Of a Brazen Horse 342 Holland 1 2 3 c. Of the Number of its Inhabitants of its Cities and Towns Its Cities are of Three different Ranks Neatness of its Houses Ships Stables Number of Ships in Holland Inundations Imposts 1 2 3 c. Honours given to the Duke of Venice 206 Horns used for Ornaments in Germany 75 Horn of an Oxe very large 102 Horses in a Garret 40 Turkish Horses richly harnassed 101 Four fine Horses of Brass 158 Sea-Horse 224 A Story of a Brazen Horse 342 Pilgrim Horses Ibid. Hospital of Four hundred thousand Crowns Yearly Rent at Naples 287 Hungarians come to Cologn 37 I. John Angelicus of Fiesola a Dominican refuseth the Arch-Bishoprick of Florence 302 Joan I. Queen of Naples 299 Jesuits slighted and humbled 177 Jesuits go to Opera's 216 Ignorance most gross 245 Image of the Republick of Venice 204 Image of Jesus Christ which spoke 291 Of the Virgin Mary which spoke 292 Impression first 69 Informers rewarded 170 Infula or Crown for the Coronation of the Emperour 67 Ingoldstadt 76 Innocent IV 300 Inquisition of State at Venice 206 Inquisition concerning Religion Ibid. Inscription touching Vesuvius 314 Inspruck 97 Interamna or Interamnium 255 Invention of PRINTING 19 Of Cannon Powder 74 Isselburg 31 Itru 275 Jews
Merit of Raphael and his glorious Reputation sets the Wits on work every day to invent new Expressions to praise his Works But after all even the greatest Examples of Perfection are not * See pag. faultless and Raphael himself is guilty of a considerable Error in the same Picture where Pope Leo the First and two Cardinals that attend him are represented in the same †Platina writes That Pope Constantine and the other Popes of that Age 250 years after Leo I wore only a plain Chamlet Garment Concerning the Cardinals see Vol. 2. It has been observ'd that Albert Durer seldom made a Face without Whiskers At Soest in the County of Mark in Westphalia there is a Picture of our Saviour's last Supper on a Glass Window in a Church in which a Gammon of Bacon is put for the Paschal Lamb. Since Images are the Books of the Ignorant it is to be wish'd that they were made agreeable to the Truth Habits that are now usually worn by persons of their Rank which is somewhat too bold a violation of the Truth of History This puts me in mind of Titian who forgot himself so far as to hang Rosaries at the Girdles of those two Disciples whom Christ met in their way to Emaus and of another famous Painter I mean Rosso who introduces Monks in their Frocks as Guests at the Virgin 's Wedding But leaving the Vatican was there ever any Painter guilty of a more ridiculous design and fantastical disposition of the Parts in a Picture than Michael in that of the Last Judgment There you may see Angels without Wings and the old Ferry-man Charon transporting a Boatful of Souls there you may behold the Resurrection of Persons of all Ages with brawny Muscles like so many Hercules's shoals of naked Persons huddl'd confusedly together and Bodies expos'd in unseemly postures Michael Angelo design'd boldly and painted whatsoever his heated Fancy suggested to him Since I am upon this subject I cannot forbear taking notice of the Murder of Admiral * The Parliament of Paris had promis'd Fifty thousand Crowns of Gold to any person that should exhibit him alive or dead The word in the French is representer Coligny the History of which is describ'd in three large Pictures which are to be seen in the Hall where the Pope gives Audience to Ambassadors In the first Coligny is represented as he was carried to his House after he was wounded by the Ruffian Morevel and at the bottom of the Picture is this Motto Gasper Colignius Amirallius accepto vulnere domum refertur Greg. XIII Pontif. Max. 1572 that is Gasper Coligny the Admiral is carried home wounded In the Pontificate of Greg. XIII 1572. The second exhibits him murder'd in his own House together with his Son-in-law Teligny and others with these words Caedes Colignii Sociorum ejus i. e. The Slaughter of Coligny and his Companions And in the third the News of the Execution is brought to the King who seems pleas'd with it as it appears by the Inscription Rex Colignii necem probat The King approves of the Slaughter of Coligny The Pope did not content himself with setting up the History of this Massacre as a Trophy in his Palace but the better to eternise the memory of so remarkable an Action he caus'd Medals to be coyn'd with this Inscription about his Image Gregorius XIII Pont. Max. An. 1. and on the reverse a destroying Angel holding in one Hand a Cross and in the other a Sword with which he seems to thrust with these words Vgonottorum Strages 1572 i. e. The Slaughter of the Hugonots 1572. These Medals are become very scarce yet I obtain'd some of them by the assistance of my Friends I shall say nothing of the Gardens of Belvedere nor of the Statues with which they are adorn'd You have heard that the * See the History of Laocoon in the second Book of the Aeneids The Laocoon is of one piece of Marble 't is the Work of Agesander Pylodorus and Athenodorus three Grecian Sculptors Laocoon is infinitely valu'd and the †'T is a Body without Head Arms or Legs the Sculptor's Name is engraven on the Pedestal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apollonius the Son of Nestor an Athenian Trunk the Antinous the Apollo and the Cleopatra are also particularly admir'd * There are very different Opinions about the number of Books contain'd in this Library And I am so little able to decide the â— Question that I chuse rather to say nothing of it The Vatican Library has been encreas'd not only by the addition of that of Heydelberg but also of the Duke of Vrbin's The Pictures with which it is replenish'd represent the Sciences Councils most celebrated Libraries Inventers of Letters and some passages in the Life of Sixtus the Fifth The old Manuscript * The Virgil and Terence of the Vatican were written a thousand years ago Spon They shew'd us here a Volume of Letters of Henry VIII to Ann of Bolen which is in quarto about the thickness of a Finger Virgil is in quarto of greater breadth than length in capital Letters without distinction of Words or the use of Points The Character is somewhat Gothic which does not at all agree with the first Ages of Antiquity in which some pretend it was written no more than the Miniature which is the product of an ignorant Age. I observ'd among the Manuscripts of the last Ages some Letters written by and to Cardinals in which they stile one-another Master Peter or Master Julius without further Ceremony I saw the German Bible which you mention they pretend that it was translated by Luther and written by his own Hand but the credit of that Story is destroy'd by the extravagant Prayer at the end of it which is apparently of the same hand with the rest Thus it is in the Original O Gott durch deine gute Bescher uns kleider und hute Auch mentel und rocke Felle kalber und bocke Ochsen Schafe und rinder Viele weiber wenig kinder Schlechte speis und trank Machem einen das jahr lang That is O God be graciously pleas'd to grant us Clothes and Hats Cloaks and Gowns fat Calves and Goats Oxen Sheep and Bulls many Wives and few Children Bad Meat and all Dâ—â—â—k make Life uneasie It must be acknowledg'd that they who would perswade us that Luther was the Author of this Prayer must have a very earnest desire to make him pass for a Debauchee From the Library we went to the Arsenal where if you will believe them there is a sufficient number of Arms for Twenty thousand Horse and Forty thousand Foot But I can assure you that there are not half so many and besides the Arms that they have are in a bad condition And 't is no wonder for these are not the principal Thunders of the Vatican If on one side the Pope may descend from this Palace to S. Peter's Church on the other