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A89931	The scarlet gown or the history of all the present cardinals of Rome. Wherein is set forth the life, birth, interest, possibility, rich offices, dignities, and charges of every cardinal now living. Also their merits, vertures, and vices· Together with the cariage of the Pope and court of Rome. Written originally in Italian, and translated into English by H.C. Gent.; Giusta statera de'porporati. English.	N. N.; Cogan, Henry.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1653 (1653)	Wing N53; Thomason E1433_1; ESTC R202993	62,278	177

Raggi adhered to the adverse party and therefore began to demonstrate unto his honourable Lordship many lively reasons for the maintainance thereof alledging divers Authors and in particular said that the Codice in such a Law made good his Plea My Lord Raggi in regard that which the Proctor affirmed was prejudicial to the party he favoured conceived according to his ignorant opinion that the Codice was some witness to be produced in judgement and therefore said unto the Proctor these precise words I will throughly chastise this Codice and then demanded of him where he was because he would have him apprehended and sent to the Gallyes The Proctor answered that he was to be found in his Clients Advocates house whereupon he commanded a Notary to send some Officers along with the Proctor to the said Advocates house to apprehend the Codice which being accordingly performed the Codice was delivered unto them who thought it was some prohibited book and that therefore they were ordered to seize upon it so they carried it to my Lord Raggi who was then Auditor of the Chamber and the Proctor being arrived there with them opened the book and found out the Law by him before cited which Raggi seeing remained like a statue quite besides himself Now the sport and pastime that was made of this matter throughout the City came to the eares of Urban the eighth who was ready to burst with laughing at it Another time it hapned that another Proctor came before him to defend another cause at his house which was just opposite to the Capranick College where were divers mad wags who as often as they saw him look out of his window cryed out Bragone bragone that is great breeches or slops so that after he was made Cardinal the common people ever after called him as they had done Bragone Now whilst the Proctor was attentive in pleading of his cause he answered the Scholars of the said Colledge saying the Galleys the Galleys The Proctor beleeving that he spake in that manner against his Client answered My honorable Lord the poor man my Client deserves not the punishment of the Galleys but in the mean time Raggi seeing those too insolent Scholars continue on still mocking him cryed out with a loud voice Not the Galleys but the Gallows which the Proctor hearing said as it were vext My Lord since you will needs send to the Galleys and hang one that no waies deserves it you may doe as you please and so went away from him Before he was made Cardinal he caused a Cardinals garments to be made for him and putting them on he walked up and down his house and asked of his friends how they became him and whether he did not walk gravely enough in them And out of the great desire he had to be a Cardinal he went one day to the Pope who loved him for his harmless simplicity and after he had kissed his foot he said Holy Father make me a Cardinal and so give satisfaction to the poor old man my Father After he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown he went to thank his Holyness and imbracing him said I cannot chuse but hugge and kiss you for joy that you have made me a Cardinal Pope Urban the eighth delighted so much in this man as can hardly be exprest the truth whereof doth appear by the effects for he not onely made him a Cardinal but also at his instance gave the Treasurorship General to Lorenzo Raggi his Nephew unto whom for a closing up of all other his extravagancies he said openly Nephew if you will arrive unto that which I have attained unto you must labour to carry your self and do as I have done Whereat not onely all the standers by but even his Nephew himself could not forbear laughing Not long after the Treasurorship was conferred on Lorenzo the Cardinal his Uncle died and made his Brother the Marquesse Raggi his heir for which cause there hath been a good while some distast between the two brothers the Treasuror and the Marquess The said Lorenzo Raggi was in the time of Urban Superintendant of the Impositions laid upon the State Ecclesiastical during which charge of his there fell out many disorders for in the Barbarini War the Souldiers could not have their pay so that two dayes after Innocent the tenth was assumed to the Papacy those Souldiers that were appointed for the guard of the Conclave began to mutinie because his Holyness having ordained that every one of them should have four moneths pay and so be dismissed Raggi would give them but two wherewith they being very much incensed fell furiously to assaulting the house he was in which they sacked and plundered all the money they found in it chasing the said Raggi into Don Tadeos Palace where he shut up himself for fear of his life but the souldiers besieged him in it and were bringing two peeces of Cannon to beat down the gates had not Innocent the tenth newly elected with his prudence given remedy thereunto Howsoever his Holyness was much offended with him for this business and every body thought that he would have deprived him of his charge and made him resign up his Treasurors place but afterwards at the intercession of divers persons the matter went no further and in the end he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown in the secret consistory of the fourth of October 1647. This Cardinal is young about some five and twenty years of age and of a good conversation but ambitious and covetous He is not over-learned nor ignorant but holds the mean betwixt both XIV Francesco Maidalchini FRancesco Maidalchini a native of the City of Viterbo and Nephew by her Brother to the Lady Olimpia the Sister-in-law of Pope Innocent the tenth This Cardinal was a youth void of all manner of conversation not being able to carry himself with any civility and therefore he was kept in a Colledge to learn not onely humane letters but also good manners Suddenly upon the making of Innocent the tenth Pope the Lady Donna Olimpia his Aunt procured an Abbots place for him with which he lived reasonably well but altogether unknown to the world Afterwards the Lord Camillo Pamphilio Sonne to the same Lady Donna Olimpia and the Popes onely Nephew being promoted to the Scarlet Gown it hapned that by the death of the Prince Don Paolo Borghese the Lady Donna Olimpia Aldobrandina Princess of Rossana his Wife became a Widdow with whose beauty and riches the Cardinal Pamphilio was so taken as he abandoned the Scarlet Gown and married her But the poor Prince Don Camillo was much troubled thereupon for that by the Papal Buls it was ordered that the Cardinals which renounced their Hats and took Wives should not enter into the Roman Court for a certain prefixed time of some moneths Howbeit he obeyed in hope he should obtain of the Pope his Uncle a dispensation for his return unto the Court But Donna Olimpia his Mother considering that

pretext of rebellion a little before the rising of that people for that there were many saddles armes and much ammunition found in his Castles which he possessed in the Province of Abruzzo and whilst all things seemed to be composed and that he was ready to be absolved and set at libertie a new conspiracie of divers Princes and Barons of the Kingdom of Naples against the Catholique King was discovered amongst whom the Prince of Gallicano was included for a certain Neapoletan Apostate Theatin named Andrea Paolucci being intercepted and apprehended with letters about him to several Neapolitan Lords from France and put to the torture named many and in particular the said Prince of Gallicano The Constable also brother to the Cardinal was not long since at such time as Gallicano was a prisoner summoned by the Vice-Roy to come to Naples and he put himself in the way to have gone thither but in the midst of his journey he returned and in his stead sent a gentleman of his family to feign that he was so indisposed in his health as he could not come himself for had he gone in person I am perswaded he likewise would have fallen into the same labyrinth This House hath ever been devoted to that of Austria and the present Cardinal will alwaies be of the Spanish faction if disgusts do not arise from new discoveries He is a haughty Lord and very sensible insomuch as he was for a good while distasted with the old Cardinal de Medici about precedence but the differences between them were composed by Innocent the tenth immediately upon his creation XXII Cirriaco Rocci CIrriaco Rocci a Roman his Original descent was from the City of Cremona in the state of Milan He was a Prelate sent Nuntio by Urban the eighth to the Emperors Majestie after which he promoted him to the Scarlet Gown This Cardinal in not very intelligent but seeemes to know much he is an old man pretends greatly to the Papacie and is not ashamed to speak of it to every one promising in that case Dignities Graces and Favors In the last Conclave he indeavoured much for his exaltation thereunto reposing all his hopes in the hands of Cardinal Spada his kinsman but for all that he would not propound him knowing full well that for his respect he would have been excluded and so he should have had his fortune discomposed for the future as the Barberini did in the person of Sachetti and the reason of it is that if Rocci were Pope the said Cardinal Spada would command all who is not much desired of any and in particular abhorred of the Barberini because they know him to be of a too stirring and fantastical a humor He hath one Nephew that is the Abbot Rocci who would be he that should reign but in regard of his young years he would not be fit for the Government He is a very affable Lord of a good life and most devoted to the House of Austria making open profession thereof wherefore he will alwaies be Spanish though he be the Barberinies creature He is well regarded of the present Pope Innocent the tenth XXIV Giovanni Battista Palotta GIovanni Battista Palotta is of an honest family of the little Country of Calderola nella Marca He is Nephew to the late Cardinal Palotta unto whom he is no way inferior and is well accommodated with the goods of fortune for the Cardinal his Uncle left him a great estate Having put himself into the Prelacie he was by Urban the eighth exercised in divers Charges and in particular was made Lord Governor of Rome wherein he carried himself with much integrity and to the great satisfaction of the people being severe and so upright that in point of justice he made no reckoning of his Holiness Nephewes For whereas it was the custome a little before the Carnival time to make proclamation that no woman whatsoever should during the said Carnival goe thorough the Course masked on pain of being whipped or suffring some such other punishment as to the Governor should seem meet the famous Checa Buffona was seen going in that time thorough the Course masked and albeit she was oftentimes admonished to forbear doing so yet would she not desist Whereat Palotta being displeased caused her suddainly to be imprisoned and then having ordained that she should be publiquely whipped thorough the City to avoid the intercessions that might be made to him in her behalf he shut himself up in his Cabinet and gave order to his servants not to come at him or disturb him during the space of two houres for any cause or message whatsoever but that they should in the mean time entertain those that came to speak with him whereupon arrived a Gentleman from Cardinal Antonio who kept a great coil to speak with the said Palotta the Governor but he was put of with good words untill the prefixed time was past and then he was admitted to the presence of the Governor unto whom he brought an order from Cardinal Antonio for the speedy setting at liberty of the said Checa Buffona Palotta answered that his Eminencie should be obeyed and presently made a Warrant for the releasing of her out of prison but when it came thither Checa had already been whipped thorough the City which Antonio understanding took on like a mad man and mightily threatned to be revenged Palotta foreseeing the danger he was likely to incur acquainted the Pope with the business who commended him for that he had done but his Holinesse knowing well that Antonio was wreakful and vindicative to take away the inconvenience that might arise upon that occasion deprived Palotta of his Government and sent him Collector into the Kingdome of Portugal where having remained some months he took upon him to maintain certain Eccesiastical jurisdictions and excommunicated all the Royal Councell of the City of Lisbon for which he was forced to leape out of a window to save himself by flight towards Rome and there being arrived he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown for divers respects The first was for the merit of his labors his Holiness knowing him to be a man of great abilities and knowledge and the second for to shield him from the malice of Antonio who for all that together with his brother Francesco hath given him hundreds of disgusts continually contrarying him in the cause and suite depending between the General of the Augustinian Order and the said Palotta who desired to have chastised him for divers misdemeanors committed by him in his place and Antonio to crosse Palotta protected and defended him and in the end to despight him got him by an Apostolical brieve to be confirmed in the Generalship for seaven years more besides many other abuses no way deserved by the said Cardinal who is a person capable of the Papacie and Rome would be happy if he should come to be Pope that so it might see the pride of the Barberini brought down If he lives