due honour Her Majesty dispatcht from this place the foresaid Don Romano Montero di Spinosa to Inspruch to complement his Highnesse the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand and inform him of her motion towards that place Don Antony Pimentel sent likewise the Captain Don Emanuel de Benavides a Gentleman his Camrade to passe the same office in his name with his Highnesse which was punctually performed by them they bringing back expressions of much content and joy for her Majesties approach so as for the honour of so great a Princesses arrival in his Countrey he commanded the preparations should be hastened begun before on the hopes of that happy successe his Highnesse having sent for from Venice and other parts Musitians and artificers for that purpose The Letter the Queen wrote to the Arch-Duke was as followeth Dear Cosen I approaching to your Highnesses Dominion have thought it becoming me to advise you of my arrival and entreat you to take in good part that I passe through your Country to go finish the rest of my journey towards Rome I send you a Gentleman the Bearer of this to tell more particularly my minde to your Highnesse and beseech you to believe him when he shall inform you that I am more than any other person Dear Cosen Your most affectionate Cosen and Friend CHRISTINA Auspurge Octob. 20. 1655. The same day the Queen went privately to see the most remarkable things of that most noble City but it being then late she deferred it till the following day and albeit her Majesty was private she was carried every where by the chief of the Magistrates and being returned afterwards to the village aforesaid dined before she departed passing through Auspurge without staying there being received by the Citizens in armes and discharging of the Canon from the walls which are very strong and filled up with earth with great Towers Curtins and old fashion Bulwarks Auspurge is one of the fairest most noble and famous Cities of Germany seated in a very pleasant plain abundantly watered with streams which make the ground most fertile The structures are great and magnificent the streets large and long and the traffique very great 'T is replenisht with Merchants and opulent Citizens the Town-house is one of the beautifullest Fabriques of Germany and and the rest are noble and majestick She advanced thence towards Landsperg a City six leagues farther belonging to the Elector of Bavaria encompassed with strong and old walls seated on the river Loch and in my last History much mentioned On the confines of this territory and that of Auspurge at a Church called Kircle two troops of Horse of the Electors stood to meet and accompany her to the City where her Majestie was received by Baron Hasstang Marshal of the Court and a Counsellor and by Baron Leinlig Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to his Highnesse persons of great quality sent expresly from Monaco to wait upon her Majesty with these two Lords were nine Gentlemen of his Highnesse and the Count of Maischbraun Cupbearer the Baron of Gersheim Carver Monsieur Welser Sewer and Doctor Vidman Steward with other officers six Pages and as many Grooms all in good order Her Majesty with all her retinue was treated most nobly and with extraordinary magnificence and sumptuousnesse and in the Electors name lay in Monsieur Maxdels Palace Here she staid two days expecting Coaches from Monaco fit to passe the streight wayes of the mountains of Tyrole where she could not possibly passe with her own and they quickly arriving carryed her on the 25 to the village of Welaim distant four leagues the next day to Morna which was as far again and on the 27 to Parkircken being alwayes attended by the horse aforesaid and Officers of Bavaria As she went to Landsperg the Baron of Spaur Gentleman of the Chamber to the Arch-Duke arrived with a letter from his Highnesse in answer of that her Majesty had sent by the foresaid Don Romano Montero returning with equal courtesie her Majesties civility On St. Simon and Judes day being gone a league farther than Parkircken where Bavaria ends its confines on that side with the Bishoprick of Freissing the Officers aforesaid and Cavalry took their leaves of her Majesty who omitted not to shew her regal liberality towards them as she always had abundantly done in the places she passed through She went thence that evening to Mittewal a place at the foot of the mountains remote five leagues more from Parkircken The day following she entering the Arch-Dukes dominions was met and received on the confines at the Castle of Scernitz by the Baron of Freiberg Gentleman of the Chamber and Captain of the Guard sent thither as Commissary by his Highness accompanied with the Baron of Ostein Cupbearer Count Belognim Carver four Gentlemen eight Pages eight Footmen and forty Archers of the Arch-Dukes Guard The foresaid Castle of Scernitz is seated on a mountain at the foot of which runs the river Inne which falling from the top of the mountain called Odelberg made navigable below Inspruch with a swift and copious stream joynes at Passau with the famous river Danube which on the other side does run between Suevia and Bavaria and crossing below Austria and Hungary and afterwards diverse Provinces of the Turkish Domions payes the tribute of his waters to the Sea near Ardrinopolis That night she lay at Seefelt a very famous Monastery and went the next morning to Ziâ—rle a little City seated on Inne two leagues distant from Inspurch Hither the Arch-Duke with his brother came privately to visit her and after some complements had passed with reciprocal demonstration of affection and esteem his Highnesse returned thence to Inspruch in the mean time causing all things to be ready for the solemn reception of her Majesty which the next day was to be as it happened The Queen was met by both the Brothers the Arch-Dukes the Arch-Dutchesse and all the chief Lords and Gentlemen of the Court and the Countrey and with the following order entered stately into Inspruch Five trumpets went before and a tabour with eight other trumpets all clad in rich Cassocks of red velvet trimmed with gold behind whom went his Highnesses Pages and afterwards all the Ministers and chiefest Cavaliers of that Court on fine horses most gorgeously apparrelled Afterwards came the Queen in a very stately litter in the middle of the Arch-Dukes who rode the one on her right hand the other on the left and the Arch-Dutchess in a chair on the side of her Majesty went thirty of the Souldiers of his Highnesses Guard by themselves her Majesties retinue following after with her Guard all on horseback with red Cassokcs trimmed with gold Behind these were led eighteen horses of value Five other trumpets with a tabour followed after at the head of sixty firelocks of the Guard with gay and well trimmed Cassocks of the Arch-Dukes livery 9 Coaches with six horses a piece shutting up the
Joseph Bologna a Neopolitan Cavalier and the generous Governour of Rimini came out with a numerous Company of Gentlemen very richly apparrelled and well mounted before whom went 400. Souldiers on horseback and presented his respects on the confines She entring the City on horseback was met with the Magistrate at the gate accompanied by many Gentlemen with fine liveries Doctor Hannibal Nanni the Principall Person did Complement her Majesty and in every place about them they saw squadrons and rankes of Souldiers with whom all the walls did abound as likewise the streets through which she passed werehung with rich tapestries The Queen travers'd the City on horseback and alighted at the publick Palace prepared for her in the great Piazza which was beautify'd and illuminated with fine artificiall fire-workes succeeding with great wonder and praise At the gate of the Palace stood twelve Pages nobly cloath'd and with Torches in their hands Her Majesty ascended the stairs accompany'd by the Legate to her lodgings A numerous company of faire and sprightly Ladies very finely adorn'd complemented her Majesty at the top of the stairs and a little while after made a very solemne musick with regular and fine dances A fine Academy was held likewise there and among the variety of compositions Signior Philip Marchesselli and Signior Lodowick Tingoli aforesaid made their fruitfull wit appeare The Queen with Majestick gravity and sweet affability was highly pleas'd with every thing Her Majesty sup't privately and retiring to her rest left the night to enjoy the splendour of the lights and the bone-fires that beautifull City had kindled in Testimony of their joy This City is ancient though now not very great Towards the Sea some remains of a great Theater may be seen which was there long ago Towards the gate that goes to Pesaro stands an arch of marble erected in honour of Augustus Caesar and without the said gate is the river Arimino now called the Marecchia ore which is a Bridge 200. paces long fifteen broad with five arches the sides of which are of thick marble-stones of Dorick work which joyned the City to the Borough built in honor of Octavian Augustus There are likewise some markes of the old Port now only of use for little Boats the greatest part thereof being fill'd up with earth The said City is adorn'd with commodious Fabricks among which appear nobly some Palaces built by the family of Malatista who sway'd there many years and the Church of St. Francis all of marble within and without with noble statues embossed works and infinite cuts of Greeke marble built by Sigismond Pandolphus of the said Family of Malatista many other noble Families do likewise there conserve their antient splendour The place of this City is remarkable now with a very faire remembrance of her Majesties passage erected in marble with the Arms of Pope Alexander the 7. and the Queens by Doctor Angelino Angelâ—ni of the following tenor In the reign of Pope Alexander the seventh Christina Queen of Swedland embracing the Catholick Religion of her owne accord and devesting herself of her Kingdoms in her journey to Rome to yield obedience to the Pope passed through Rimini in the year of our Lord 1655 in the month of December in perpetuall memory of the thing Angelinus de Angelinis I. C. Arim. The next morning though it rained her Majesty departed from Rimini accompanied as she alwayes had been by the Cardinall Legate to Cattolica a place on the confines between Romagna and the Dukedome of Vrbin where she staid and here the said Cardinall gave her Majesty a collation of sweet meats and took leave of her who left him highly satisfied of her courteous acceptance Cardinal Acquaviva is of very noble birth and one of the cheif families in Naples who as he is composed of honour and a sweet disposition so abounds with all courtesy and generosity After severall Prelaticall dignities and Governments performed with much praise he was worthily advanced to the purple on the 2. of March 1654. The Queen was met at Cattolica by my Lord Gaspan Lascari a Gentleman of Nizza full of honour and courtesy nephew to the great Master of Malta vice-Legat of Urbin He appeared attended by a Company of Curiassers commanded by Count Alphonsus Santinelli the Principall Cavalier of the City of Pesaro who afterwards waited on her through all that state Here a good body of souldiers reduc'd into order gave her Majesty many voleys of shot in her passage From hence she advancing to Salicata was met by his Eminence Cardinall Lewis Homodei of Millan the Legat of Urbin with 12. Coaches with 6. Horses a peice full of principall Gentlemen fifty Switzers afoot of his guard and above a hundred eminent Gentlemen a horseback with rich and splendid cloathes fine liveries Among these were Count Hanibal Thiene a Cavalier of Vienna Count Hippolitus Santinelli Cosen to the said Count Alphonsus the Counts Francis Maria and Lodovick Santinelli brothers and in fine the Counts Bernardino Ubardâ—ni Francis Maria Lunardi Lutiâ— as likewise Signior Francis Maria Bonamini all persons very nobly descended sprightly generous and lively The Cardinall alighting out of his Coach did complement her Majesty who likewise coming out of her own received him with great courtesy and affection Every one returning to their Coaches they continued their journey towards the City At the gate they found Signior Giulius Caesar Vattielli and Iohn Andrew Olivieri Gentlemen of good grace and both cheif Standard-bearers with six other Seniors of the Magistrates who came on horseback in their usuall long robes of black velvet like Consuls accompani'd by twenty Gentlemen clothed likewise very honourably in black with 4 trumpets and 24. Groomes with very fine liveries of Carnation Cloath trimm'd with great gards of white velvet When the Queen approached they alighted from their horses advanced to the Coach and complemented her Majesty who stood up and answered them very courteously The Queen entered into Pesaro about the evening and welcomed with many vollies of Ordnance and Muskets alighted at the Dome where the Legat expected her who in hast went the shortest way before her She descended at the chaines before the Church and Kneeling on a cushion prepared for her Kissed reverently the Cross presented to her by the Bishop and thence went into the Church under a Canopy carried by the principall Gentlemen of the City while the clergy that went before began the usuall Anthem She is beautifull c. Which ended the Musitians sang Te Deum with a very rare consort of voyces and instruments which her Majesty heard kneeling near whom on a great Cushion the Cardinall Legate was kneeling and a little more distant from him the four Nuntij and Spanish Embassadour When the Te Deum was ended the Cardinall descended the steps of the Altar and gave the sollemn blessing after which the Legate putting off his cope waited on
Canonesses of Nivelles When she was return'd to Antwerp Mounsieur De Chenut the then French Ambassadour to the States of Holland came thence to waite upon her He had been before as we said Ambassadour of the most Christian King to her Majestie in Swedland so as he was treated by her with the greatest demonstrations of affection and esteeme being knowne by her Majestie to be of great abilityes and experience in affaires of greatest moment The Catholique King now inform'd the Queen was gone towards Flanders with the thoughts of staying there some little time remanded into the low Countreys Don Antony Pimentel Diprado master of the camp of the Spanish foot and Governour of Newport with the title of extraordinary Ambassadour to this Princess to assist her in all things as likewise to honour with such a demonstration her heroique resolutions Don Antony departed from Bruxells for Spaine on the eighth of June 1654. going thither to give an account of his negotiations in Swedland and pass'd with a passeport through France being mett defray'd lodged and all his charges borne by order of Cardinall Mazarine not so much in regard of his merits though he was much esteemed in France as in token of the said Cardinalls gratitude who in his retreat out of France into Germany was honourably treated in the Spanish Dominions The care of accompanying him was committed to Mounsieur De Touchanpre The said Pimentel embarquing at Biscaglia arriv'd at Mardick on the twenty ninth of October and from thence went towards Antwerp whither he came on the fourth of December He went to his first audience with a most noble traine being a Gentleman very splendid and generous and naturally affable and courteous Here the Queen stay'd till all things were prepar'd for her reception in Bruxells which was to be sumptuous according to the orders the Catholique King had given expressly unto the Arch-Duke and the rest of his minsters who fayl'd not of punctually fulfilling the generous minde of his Majestie While the Queen remained in Antwerp Earle Todt pass'd by there sent by the King of Swedland to the Court of France who by order of his King was to complement her Majestie which he did with expressions corresponding with the gratitude that was due from his master for so great and extraordinary a benefit In the meane time Count Pontus Della Garda arriv'd too from Paris in Antwerp and going to wait on her Majestie was detain'd awhile by her as likewise Monsieur Palpitzky who resident in France for the Crown of Swedland had order from his King to assist her and serve her she remanded into Swedland the Earle of Shemberg to return the Kings complement and come to some agreement about the lands appointed for her maintenance When all things in fine were in readiness for her Majesties reception in Bruxells on the 13. of December the Arch-Duke came to Antwerp to invite her to Bruxells in the name of the King of Spaine he himself returning thither the day after where 't was appointed the Queen leaving Antwerp on the 23. should arrive the same Evening as she did Her Majestie departed that day very privately by Coach being attended and accompany'd by the foresaid Earle Pontus and Palpitzky by Messieurs di Lillicerou Wolfe and Wrangel Gentlemen of her Chamber Monsieur Silvekron her Steward Baron Carock Messieurs d' Eberling Bukoven Varenne and other Gentlemen with six Pages eight Grooms and others of her Court Being come half way she was welcom'd by all the Canons and Musketts in Wiâ—brouch a Castle indifferently strong seated on the Channell that runs to Bruxells where the Arch-Duke met her who came with his Guards and a Noble and numerous attendance as well of his Court as the principall Gentlemen of the Countrey He represented to her Majestie with much Courtesie and respect the great satisfaction he receiv'd for her arrivall conducting her into a house where a very sumptuous dinner was provided and they sate down to the Table the Queen at the upper end under a cloth of state the Arch-Duke on her right hand a little below on the other side of the Table but under the same Cloth of state the Marquest Mattei being her Cup-bearer and the Marquess of Beralau a Flemming her Carver Some two hours after her Majestie continu'd her journey on the Channell towardes Bruxells in a Bucentoro most richly adorn'd and guilded within and without which carry'd twelve peices of Canon and was drawn by twelve horses of which was the Captaine the Admirall of Antwerp In this ship there went none but the Queen the Arch-Duke and the cheife of their Courts the remainder being carry'd in oâ—her Barques which staying now and then in the sluces which keep up the water did satisfie in part the Curiosity of the people which flockt in hâ—ge throngs for beholding this Princess all the bankes of the Channell all the houses and the neighbouring fields abounding with Persons of all kinds From Wilbrouch they advancing to the bridge called Lac which was a league forward here the City of Bruxells began to appear in a very fine prospect for the Countrey being open they so freely saw the Towers that the aire now being dusky by the absence of the Sun and they full of great lights it seem'd a new Sun was risen again in the night and really the light was so great which with artificiall mixtures illuminated all the barks of the Channell that they saw as in the day All along the said banks stood the Souldiers in armes who now anon with reiterated volleys saluted her Majestie Being come near the City about three hours in the Night all the Canon Mortarpeices and Muskets saluted her Majestie with a tuneable noyse and when she arriv'd at the gate she saw it adorn'd with a fine artificiall fire-work representing two Angels which held the name of Christina crowned with lawrell with diverse inscriptions above and below On the bridge where her Majestie was to land stood the Earle of Fuensaldagna a Gentleman of most eminent qualitie as high Steward to his Catholick Majestie accompany'd by the senatours of the City and all the Nobilitie and Officers of that Court with above 200. Coaches and an incredible multitude of people Her Majestie being enter'd her Coach took in the Arch-Duke and she sitting in the end and his Imperiall Highnesse in the boote they went towards the Town-house which was proudly adorn'd with various Armes Mottos and Inscriptions in praise of her Majestie and illuminated with above three thousand lights and likewise the streets through which they passed were all full of lights and hung with tapistry with so great a concourse of Ladies Gentlemen Citizens and People that Bruxells never saw such a number drawn by curiousity to see a Princesse of so great same and such vertuous and eminent parts All the City contributed to her happy arrivall with the sensiblest expressions a reall and reverent heart is capable of with
of a Regiment to the foresaid Elector arrived to invite her Majesty into Asschaffemburg The Queen would perhaps have been willing to have staid a little while in Franckfort a free City great and renowned seated on the banks of the river Main and among other things very full of copious Libraries and abounding with the curiousest volumes that have been yet printed but she thought it better to continue her journey as she did to avoid incommoding that Senate with those entertainments with which more than others they would have endeavoured to manifest their gratitude towards the glorious name of King Gustavus Adolphus her Majesties Father who was the particular Protector of that City and who entering there with his Army preserved it from the anger and severity with which it was threatned by the Imperial troups She therefore was saluted by all the Artillery and the peoples acclamations who flockt in extraordinary throngs to behold her with the greatest curiosity and veneration From Steinhaim she went to Asschaffemburg a City washt by the said river Main and belonging to the dominion of the foresaid Elector of Mentz whose Castle is strong beautiful of a moderne structure and one of the magnificentest fabriques of Europe This City renowned for the accidents of the former wars is seven leagues distant from Steinhaim There she was received with great joy by all the Citizens who as mindful of the chances that were past gave clear demonstrations of their well affected minds by discharging all the Canon the Musquets and an infinite number of Mortarpieces She was lodg'd and defrayed by the Elector not onely that evening of the eighth but all the ninth day she staid there to let her horses rest Departing from that place on the 10th of October she went and lay at Mitelmbourg a little City with an old fashion wall which likewise belonged to the Elector of Mentz where her Majestie had the same entertainments and the said Electors confines here ending his Eminences Officers dismissed themselves with the horse that had accompany'd and serv'd her on the said tenth day her Majestie advancing five leagues further to a village of Franconia call'd Kulsai and thence the next day to Simmering whither came the Prince Palatine with his Princesse and two Sisters to waite on her Majesty who arrived the same day at Aub a little City on the frontires of the Bishoprick of Wirtzburgh called commonly Herbipolis four leagues farther from Mitelmbourg where her Majestie was received and splendidly treated by order of the said Elector of Mentz as Bishop of that City That Countrey is good and fruitful but very much spoyled by the former wars in which Herbipolis hath occasioned much matter for History for the various successes that happened near it Her Majesty staid in Aub all the thirteenth of October and lay the night following in Rottemburg distant five leagues an Imperial Town encompassed with strong and old walls and washt by the river Nechar famous likewise for the wars past The Magistrates of the place presented the Queen with fish wine and oats presents usually made to all Princes and great persons by the Imperial Cities of Germany She was welcomed by the Canon and received by all the Citizens in armes The Marques of Anspach of the house of Brandemburg came thither that day to wait on her Majesty who having been received with the shew of much respect took his leave the same night but returned the next morning before the Queen departed and brought with him the Countesse of Olac his Kinswoman who would needs wait on her Majesty as one much devoted and obsequious to the Crown of Swedland the Earl of Olac her husband having the said Crown as Governor of Auspurge when that City was taken and held by the Swedes From Rottembourg she went to the village of Waitvang three leagues farther and of the jurisdiction of the Marques aforesaid where she was received and sumptuously treated by a Gentleman sent thither by the Marquis But this noble entertainment was the next day disgested in Donhausen a poor Mannor-house where there being no other houses fit for lodging but the Curates they were much incommoded and distrest On the seventeenth she went to Nordlinguen an Imperial City and renowned for the two famous battles fought heretofore in those ample plaines the one glorious to the Spaniards who with a full and memorable victory preserved the Empire and the other unfortunate to Bavaria since by losing the day all that flourishing countrey was made in a manner a prey to the fury of the French and anger of the Swedes There she was received with all obsequiousnesse and respect the people arming themselves and the walls which are strong and bituminous and abound with ancient towers They stood all in ranks in the streets and every where as wel with the noyse of of the Artillery the Mortar-pieces and Musquets as the light of the Bonefires her Majesties arrival was sollemnized The Magistrates would have splendidly entertained her and her train if she would have accepted their kindnesse but she having refused it as she had done before in the other imperial Cities through which she had past the usual presents were made her of fish wine and oats The day following having dined in the village of Arbourg she went five leagues farther that evening to the City of Donavert appertaining to the Elector of Bavaria with a bridge o're the Danube renowned in our History for the accidents past All the Canon were discharged at her arrival The Governor of the Castle went quickly to visit her Majesty excusing himself that she found not all things ready for her entertainment he not knowing of her coming insomuch as she lay in an Inne The same evening the Duke of Neuburgs chief Gentleman of the Chamber came thither and informed the Queen his Master was coming to visit her who arriving the next morning was received by her Majesty with all kindnesse and courtesie She departing after dinner from Donavert went that night to the village of Visemdorp distant three leagues and as the day following she was travelling towards Oberhausen a village on the river Veder of the jurisdiction of the City Auspurge Earl Raymund Montecuccoli arrived sent again by the Emperor to her Majesty to accompany and wait on her to Rome The Queen received him with extraordinary satisfaction and courtesie took him into her Coach and went and lay that night in the foresaid village of Oberhausen distant onely a league from Auspurge where she staid all the following day being the 21 of October and a person of quality arrived from the Duke of Bavaria with a letter from his Highnesse to complement and invite her to Monaco Here likewise her Majesty was presented by the Magistrates of Auspurge with fish wine and oates sent expresly to her by their Deputies who complemented her Majesty in the name of the publique inviting her to their City with particular ambition to give her all
get before her Majesty and receive her at the Dome in the absence of Boncompagno the Archbishop When she was near the City they began to hear the noyse of the Artillery which continued till she got to the Palace At the gate she was received by all the Magistrates on horseback who were in their solemne robes After the like complements she had had in Ferrara she went to the Church of St. Peter which is the Cathedral and there alighting was received with the same ceremonies used to her in the Church of Ferrara after which she was carried in a chair to the Palace accompanied by all the retinue The Cardinal Legate who made such haste thither received her at the foot of the staires and in passing through the Hall of Farnese they found there in ranks on both sides above an hundred Ladies most splendidly adorned who all made low reverences to her Arriving at her lodging she a little while after saw the fires which were opposite to her chamber on a long and fine stand which was made for that purpose with Pyramids and a great figure signifying Faith with the Armes of the Pope of her Majesty and his Eminence among which were distributed several images of Lyons the Armes of Bologna The fires were extraordinarily fine and at the same time six thousand squibs of wilde-fire were seen flying from the summit of two towers After this the Queen went into the Hall of Hercules where sitting under the cloth of state on a throne prepared for her she saw the dancing where there were above a hundred faire Ladies most nobly apparreled The day following she went to see the Church of St. Dominique and there reverenced his body expressing a particular devotion to him and an equal esteem to this ancient and very noble Order Here at the Altar of the reliques she beheld the five books of Moses written in Hebrew in thin leather by the Prophet Esdras and her Majesty read some of the words She desired then to see the publick Schooles in which she heard an eloquent Oration in her honour by the Abbot Certani a person of great learning and vertue The Duke of Modena hearing the Queen was arrived in Bologna sent the Marqis Silvio Molza a Cavalier of great spirit and extraordinary parts in the quality of his Embassadour to wait on the Queen but it had no effect they could not agree of the pretensions he had Her Majesty staid two days in Bologna as she had done in Ferrara and the second day went to Masse to St. Michael in the wood without the gate of Saint Mamolo the famous convent of the Fathers of mount Olivet where her Majesty was much pleased in seeing that Cloyster painted by the most renowned Painters of Bologna Caracci and Reno and in the Sacristy the Saint Michael of Brasse the excellent workmanship of Albargi She visited likewise at her entrance into the Church the body of blessed Katherine of Bologna which is kept still by those all entire palpable and sitting without any help to hold it up Her Majesty being returned to the Palace the Colledge of Bologna presented her with the works in ten Volumes of Doctor Aldrovandi which she very much esteemed The same day the Queen dined in publick with the Cardinal they observing the same order as was held in Ferrara Many Ladies came masked to see the feast which was as sumptuous as can be imagined for the Legates noble minde omitted not any thing that was great and majestique The cheif Standard-bearer gave the napkin to her Majestie and Count Francis Charls Caprara nephew to Duke Piccolomini the General was both Carver and Cup-bearer both persons of high worth After dinner she visited the great Colledge of Spain founded long since by the famous Cardinal Gyles Albernozzi and about three houres in the night she went to the lodgings of the Colledge and thence to the Theater This was built for that purpose in the forme of a great ship the extremities of which arrived to the frontispiece o're the fish-market and o're part of the Palace through a great window of which her Majesty accompanied by the Cardinal passed o're a bridge very splendidly adorned where there were above 140 Ladies all equally resplendâ—nt with the lustre of their beauty and a rich mine of pearls and of jewels of inestimable value The Theater which was covered had certain great lights on the top and above 300 torches were regularly distributed here and there round about it together with other lesser lights which made it most resplendent The battlements of the Palace were deckt with several Carpets some of arras and others of silk of diverse colours After the appearance of the Masters of the Camp which were the Marquis Angelelli and Count Edward Pepoli both Senatours they beheld a great guilded Charriot come forth with 24 groomes apparrelled in cloath of silver with torches in their hands drawn by twelve horses most splendidly set out on which sat cloathed like Pallas Felsina representing Bologna for so it was called long since when it was the royal City of Toscany Somewhat lower stood Peace Fame and War which interlaced the song of Felsina who when she had walked up and down in the field stood still before the Queen to introduce the tilting She singing then said to applaud so great a Majesty the Triumviri who divided the World on the river Lavino not far from Bologna brought three squadrons of Cavaliers which running at the Ring and one against another might shew their respects to so deserving a Queen Then Felsina was silent and departing with her train by the Masters of the Camp three squadrons were brought in the one lead by Octavus Augustus the second by Lepidus and the third by Marcus Antonius each being composed of six Cavaliers Trumpets Pages and Groomâ—s going before with lighted torches in their hands every one of them extravagantly attired walked softly o're the field accompanied by two sticklers and two Cavaliers all in armour for the tilting to follow of one against another Their plumes and the crests of their helmets were high made of several pretious feathers which augmented the beauty and pompe of the shew The first squadron contained besides the two sticklers aforesaid the Counts Luigi Bentivoglio Marc ' Antonio Sampieri Hercules Malvezzi Philip Maria Bentivoglio the Marquis Hippolitus Bevilaqua the Marquis Caesar Tanara the Counts Lodovick Albergati Anthony Orsi and Alexander Fava all Cavaliers of great valour and birth In the second were the Counts Francis Charles Caprara Constance Maria Zambeccari Alphonsus Ercolani Jerome Caprara Hercules Isolani Anthony Gabrielli Anthony Joseph Zambeccari Felix Montecuccoli and Rinald Bovio whose sticklers were the Counts John Baptist Alberti and Hannibal Ranucci persons of great merit and vertue In the third were the Marquisses Andrew Paleotti and Guido Anthoni Lambertoni the Counts Henry Hercolani and Francis Maria Ghislieri and the Gentlemen Octavius Casoli Iohn Baptist Sampieri Alexander
Râ—ffeni Ierome Pini and Tabus Guidotti whose sticklers were the Counts Vincent Marescotti and Caesar Hanibal Marsilli and which Cavaliers were of the most noble and most eminent Families of that City These three Spectators having severally reverenc't the Queen ran at the ring breaking above 130. lances with a generall acclamation of the people This operation being ended they began the encounter of two Cavaliers of each squadron of the first were the Counts Lewis Bentivoglio and Marcus Antonius Sapieri of the second the Counts Francis Charles Caprara and Constance Maria Zambeccari and of the third signior Octavius Casalo and Sigre Giollanni Battista Sampieri every one of which ran five lances a piece with such courage and sprightlinesse that all the spectators commended them extreamly After this all the the Squadrons reduced themselves into a semicircle made low reverences to her Majesty and gave her many thankes for the honour she had done them with her presence who seemed to be highly contented In her Majesties returne to her lodgings she passing that night through the publick roomes of the Magistrates of the City who are called the Regiment saw â—he picture of Pollio done by the famous Painter Guido Reni of Bologna with the picture of the Protectors of the City which pleased her so much she desired to see them again The honours done her Majesty by the Legate and all those Cavaliers were very remarkable as well for the order as magnificence The best wits of the City omitted not to contribute abundantly to that entertainment The Cardinal Legate discoursed very seriously with her Majesty who seemed highly satisfied with him and among other things represented to her that in Rome as a great City and abounding with all Nations she might see different persons and given as well to vertue as to vice for as the first are apt to make use of the means which they think will most advance their pretensions so on the other side the number is so great of the good and exemplary in their holy operations that her Majesty might have her minde disposed both for pity and edification Bologna lyes at the bottoms of the mountaine Appenninus in the midst of the Emilian way being of a form somewhat long and almost like a ship It hath twelve gates which shew how big it is The river Savena runs on the side of it and through the middle a branch of Reno navigable to Malalbergo about twenty miles distant from Ferrara where afterwards it falls into the valley of St. Martina which leads to Ferrara The buildings are ample commodious and within more majestique then without All the streets have spatious Portices so as you may go through the City without being touch't by the rain or the sun T is full of a vertuous splendid and courteous Nobility and abounds with all things being rich and populus with a territory as pleasant and fruitfull as any is in Italy There is a most noble University in which flourish eminent Persons in all kind of learning The Bolognesi are fit for any exercise arms letters and commerce being there in great perfection The gentry in particular is active and continually gets renown in the exexcises of glory and honour This so rich so fine and so fortunate Countrey is govern'd at present by the foresaid Cardinall John Jerome Lomellino of the title of S. Onofrius a gentleman of the noblest and most eminent Families of Genoua who having performed the Offices of Referendarius of Clerke of the Chamber Treasurer Generall Governour of Rome c. was preferr'd to the purple on the 19. of February 1652. a person expert in the mannagement of affairs quick in the execution and exemplary in justice and equity loving greatly the vertuous and hating extreamly the vicious insomuch as his just government hath providently been prorogued for three years more in that his Legation On the 29. after Masse and a sumptuous Collation her Majestie departed from Bologna accompany'd and attended by the Cardinall Legate with the traine of the Nobility and Souldiers to the confines of that Territory Her Majestie continu'd her journey towards Imola passing the rivers Indice and Savena between Bologna and St. Nicholas and between this and Imola the Giano Solerino and Senio by reason of the torrents which fall from Appenninus and often want water as they did that dry year Near Dâ—zza a Town appertaining to the Marquis Campeggi which is on the Confines of Imola and consequently the beginning of the Province of Romagna the Cardinall Acquaviva the Legate should have met her but did not he reserving himself to meet her at Forli the following evening and the rather to fulfill his Holynesses minde who would not defraud the Cardinalls Donghi and Rossetti of the honour of receiving her He only sent thither my Lord Francis Cennini the Vice-Legate a Prelate of great spirit civility Nephew to Cardinall Connini of happy memory who complemented her Majestie in his name and caused the Troope of Curiassers of his guard to be there which serv'd for her guide through the Province He caused there likewise to be ready a squadron of four thousand Soldiers commanded by the Camp-master Capelletti a Gentleman of courage who in all the state of the Province observed the orders given him by the Cardinall aforesaid causing each City to send two thousand men which he form'd into great squadrons consisting of two thousand Souldiers one after the other so the Confines of the Province Besides that the Vice-Legate was accompany'd by many Gentlemen of Romagna and 300. chosen Horse all in good order as well for their cloaths as furniture and Arms. As soone as he had complemented the Queen in the name of the said Cardinall Acquaviva the Legate of Romagna he returned thence to Imola leaving the care of her reception to Cardinall John Stephen Donghi the Bishop of that City who according to his instructions from Rome went in Coach to meet her Majestie without the Town at our Lady 's of Pradello accompany'd by many Gentlemen of the City They came out of their Coaches and complemented each other in the manner observed by the Cardinalls of Ferrara and Bologna As soon as her Majesty was return'd into her Coach his Eminence went before to the City to be ready to receive her In the Plain without Imola were divers squadrons of foot who continually with volleys of shot saluted her Majesty as she passed along At the Gate she was received by the Magistrates the chief of which were Count Francis Maria Sassatelli Signior Thadeus Dalla Volpe Signior Giouanni Battista Borghesi and Captain Thomas Mazzi who accompany'd by many Gentlemen with fine Liveries did their dutyes to her Majesty The gates and streets abounded with Souldiers standing in rankes but the old fashion'd walls were uncapable of Artillery and could not be arm'd She alighted not at the Cathedrall as she had done in Ferrara and Bologna because it was darke so as she
knowledg in the affaires of the world all the prerogatives peculiar to a Gentleman well bred He is of Ferrara of the ancient and noble family of the Counts Rossetti now Marquisses who abounding more in vertue than yeares by the glorious Pope Vrban the eighth the lover of the learned and vertuous was sent as an Apostolicall Minister into the Kingdom of England to that Queen There he did all he could for the advantage and good of the Catholique Religion and ran there great dangers in those persecutions as more plainly may appear by a letter to him of the 13th of July 1643. from his Eminence Cardinall Francis Barberino nephew to Vrban in order to his preferment of the following tenor The troubles of our Countrey and of Christendome will have a short truce that I among so many disgusts may have some time to breath seeing your Eminences great labours rewardâ—d with the Purple God be pleased with the tranquillity of Italy to open to the way that by your continuall paines he may grant the same to all of the Catholique Religion and that by your endeavours your toylings and dangers not unknown to the world it may again flourish in the land of great Brittaine to the end this dâ—gnity deserved so well by you may not be deprived of the happy effects your Eminence hath desired and cooperated on your part for the publique good And I humbly Kiss your hands c. Your Eminences most humble and most affectionate Servant Cardinall Barberino The end of the fourth Booke The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Fifth Book The Argument THE Queen advances from Faenza to Forli Cesena and Rimini accompanied by the foresaid Cardinall Legat of Romagna On the confines of the state of Urbin She is met by that Vice-Legate and Cardinall Legate and enters Pesaro where she is treated and royally entertained She passes from Fano and Ancona She arrives at the holy house of Loretto and consecrates devoutly her Scepter and Crown to that glorious Virgin She goes to Macerata thence to Tolentino and afterwards to Camerino She comes to Foligno goes to Assisi there visits the famous temple of Saint Francis and is splendidly entertained by Cardinall Rondinino then returnes to Foligno THe foresaid Cardinall Rossettti taking leave of the Queen Signior Fulvius Petrocci da Arieti Governour of Forli appeared with a numerous retinue of Gentlemen of Romagna come expresly with excessive rich cloaths and fine liveries to honour their Legate and augment the splendour of this Princesses reception The foresaid Prelate when he had humbly waited on her Majesty being very well satisfied with the courteous correspondence he found in the Queen went before to Forli whence advancing some miles the said Legate with the train not onely of six Coaches of his own full of Gentlemen of his family with which he waited on her in all his Legation but likewise came with 25 more with 6 horses apeice set forth by the Gentlemen of the Province who flockt to attend him in her first reception The gate without and within as likewise the walls though weak in that City were garnished with souldiers partly divided into squadrons and partly ranked in files The Magistrate there called il numero met her at the entrance with a troupe of the City and having presented her with their dutifull respects waited on her to the place very regularly beautified with lights The Ornament of the fire with which was represented the Majesty of so great a Princess by so much the more spread its light with greater splendour by how much the more the night was the darker Hieroglyphicks disposed in various manners were seen there to flame alluding to the joy of the people for her fortunate arrivall The Queen being enterd her lodgings and breathing there a little was invited to honour an Academy with her presence in which severall compositions in Italian and Latine were recited among which took greatly a discourse made by Signior Ridolfus his Eminences Nephew and an Ode of Pindarus by Signior Lodovick Tingoli a Person as conspicuous for his birth as famous for the vertuous and rare qualities of his minde and who is indeed the cheife ornament of Rimini his Countrey with other Compositions of the most esteem'd Poets of the Province Her Majesty supp'd privately and having the next morning heard Mass in the Dome din'd in publique with the said Cardinall Legate with the order observed in other places The foresaid Signior Ridolphus was her Cup-bearer the Governors brother the Sewer twelve principall Gentlemen of the City assisting at the service of the table The Town is seated in an open Countrey very fertile and pleasant inhabited by people of Courage and Spirit who retain the martiall nature of their first founders After dinner her Majesty departed from Forli carrying with her in his Holinesses Coach the Cardinall Legat being attended by all the train She passed the famous Rubicon but with greater glory than Caesar since he advanced thither to seize on the liberty of his Countrey and she after the renouncing of her paternall Kingdome came thither to arrive to the Empire of Christ Her Majesty continued her journey towards Cesena passing through Forlimpopoli a little Town where her Majesty was welcomed by the squadrons of foot being received between the souldiers standing in rowes through all the Countrey as she went In approaching to Cesena she found set in array diverse Batalions of foot was met by Signior Richard Hanniball Romano the Governour accompanied with many Gentlemen a horseback who alighting did complement the Queen and congratulate her arrivall The same thing was done by the cheif Standard-bearer Count Joseph Fantaguzzi with the Magistrate who all rode together before her to her lodging prepared in the palace of Count Lelius Roverelli a noble ancient family and cheif of that City where some Gentlemen in armour tilted one against another in the place Here her Majesty supp't privâ—tely and because it was late went to her repose without other entertainment Cesena is one of the chiefest Cities in Romagna of very great commerce and populous enough in regard of its bigness It lies at the foot of a mountaine the lower part of which is washt by the river Savius It hath a Castle on the hill with some fair and strong old fashion towers built long agoe by the Emperour Frederick the Second On the 2. of December the Queen went out of Cesena on horseback accompanied by the Legate who was likewise mounted on a Neopolitan courser of an Ermine colour which being observed by the Queen for his goodness and she seeming to like him extreamly was presented her by him He had likewise given her in Forli two globes of silver the one representing the earth and the other the sphaere most diligently engraven and supported by two statues of silver done by Algarbi of great value My Lord
the City and twelve other Footmen in several liveries of the Magistrates and three Trumpets The Magistrates at that time were Count Iohn Baptist Ferretti Signior Tomaso Tomasi Belaâ—dino Galli Knight of James Signior Flamineo Scalamonte Captain Ierome Bompiari and Signior Vincent Balestrieri both Commenders of the order of St. Stephen All these alighting from their horses in the name of the City did complement her Majesty the said Count Feretti speaking to her as their Prior. The Queen standing up received their complement with her usual and Majestique Civility The twelve Pages were left with her Majesties Coach to attend her the Magistrates remounting and continuing their journey towards the Apostolicall Palace The souldiers stood in rankes along the streets and the houses were adorned with fine tapistries Being come to the Palace she found in the first hall near the gate the Principall Ladies of the City standing in a stately circle who handsomly paid her their respects waiting on her to the door of her Chamber whom her Majesty received and treated with all Kindnesse and affability Having stai'd a little while in her Chamber it wanting then an howre to night she resolved to go see the famous Arch of Trajan the Emperour all wrought with fine Marble The Senate and People of Rome erected it in honour of him of Plotina his wife and Martiana his Sister who were held in veneration as Deities in that time as by the inscriptions read there may be gather'd Her Majesty went thither in a Chaire attended by the Nuntii and the Governour in Coach with others of quality She was welcomed with many tires of artillery from Rivellino which is in the mouth of the Haven from the Ships and other Partes towards the Sea In her Majesties return she observed two Arches of the Apostolicall Palace to wit the first towards the place repolisht of late and with an old inscription which said 'T is made Celestiall while the Princely Sun beholdes the Arche And two great Arms one of the Pope now raigning and the other of the Queen with the Motto in the midst of them The Starr's and Wind favouring In the second they read The immortall vertue of Christina Queen of Swedland raises me to a veneration of her Majesty This Arch of stone reduc'd into the forme of marble of Verona was on the superficies of the Pillars Bases Chapiters and great medalls wrought in Gold and upon it were erected the arms of her Majesty between two great statues one representing the heroicall vertue and the other liberality and under that was written By yielding she o'recomes by flying quells her enemyes And under the other By parting with her Kingdom she her Empire hath extended And over the arms in a great thick Pastboard By going it encreases That evening about an houre in the night all the Piazze and streets being resplendent with the fires and the lights her Majesty went from her lodgings to those that look't into the Piazza There near the stairs stood a painted machine of wood 36. hands breadths high which with six Mountains a starre and two Oakes represented the arms of his Holyness At the foot of these Mountains was the Tyber which under one hand held a great armes out of which instead of water it actually cast wine with the other supporting the arms of the Queen on which a Lyon lean'd On the one side there was a Virgin which had recourse to the Tyber and on the other a statue which sustaining in her hand Trajans Arch represented the City of Ancona this Motto being at the foot of the Virgin I return safe This machine was full of fire-workes which took very handsomly Many compositions were made in honour of her Majesty among which were certain verses of Count Paul Ferretti a Cavalier of much vertue and of an anâ—ient Family and Noble he descending from Ulderick Ferretti Lord of the County of Ferretta above Basil towards the County of Burgundy who had a daughter marry'd to Albert the second Duke of Austria The Queen afterwards supp'd in publick in the roome before the Chapell with the Nuntii and Spanish Ambassadour they taking place of him Signior Stefano Renincasa presented the water for her hands and the Marquis Francis Tassoni the napkin The Commender Alexander Fanelli was Sewer and Cavalier Caesar Nappi her Cupbearer and every time her Majestie dranke the signes being given before the Canon of the Fortress were discharg'd My Lord Lewis Gallo Bishop of Ancona the principall Cavalier of Osimo a person of try'd prudence in the charges and mannagement of affairs sustained by him for the holy Sea supposing the Queen in order to his instructions from Rome should quickly have come to his Cathedrall which is the Church of St. Ciriack seated on one of those Promontoryes caused it to be hung with rich Tapistrye and caused too the Altars to be deck'd with the pretiousest Ornaments But he could not have that honour for the said Church being far off from the Palace and on a craggy Mountain the Queen went not thither but instead of going thither the day following when she had heard Mass in the Chapell of the Palace she seeming desirous to see the famous Reliques kept there the Nuntii by the Popes authority gave order that to the said Chapell of the Palace two Canons should bring them with assistance of other Gentlemen and one was the tip of the iron of the lance which open'd the side of our Lord Jesus Christ left in Ancona by the Ambassadour of Bajazet the Emperour of the Turkes in the year 1492 when he passed through that place towards Rome where he gave to Innocent the eighth the head of the speare of the same iron the other the right foot of St. Anne the Mother of the most glorious Virgin Mary with the flesh and the bones given likewise to the said City by the Patriarch of Constantinople Paul Paleolgus in the year 1380. the Queen kneel'd before them and kissed them with great devotion My lord Holstenius who as Canon of the Church of St. Peter had many times handled the relique of the said head of the speare not only assured her Majesty 't was true but likewise affirm'd the colour of the rust was the same as also Pope Clement the eighth passing through Ancona towards Ferrara had that of Ancona confronted with the other of Rome This function being ended the Bishop went to wait on her Majesty who received him most courteously After breakfast she continu'd her journey towards Loretto accompany'd by the said Governour with all the retinue to the bridge of Arciato the Confines of Ancona The Magistrates waited not upon her as at her arrivall because the Master of the Ceremonies told them 't was not necessary At her going away she was saluted by all the Artillery and departed highly satisfy'd with her reception and the honours done her by that noble City Ancona is seated on the side of a Mountain which extending it self
into the Sea makes a kind of Amphitheater It hath a great Haven and defended as well from the South-east-winds as exposed to the Northern at the head of which is a Ravelin founded in the Sea within which there is the space of above a thousand feet and the way thither is under the said Arch of Trajan This City is fortify'd with strong walls which are very well flank't and a Castle well built which seated on the Mountain commands the haven The houses and streets are somewhat narrow but of very good architecture and industriously order'd which make it fine and beautifull The Citizens are courteous and kinde particularly to Strangers the commodity of the Sea bringing thither good traffique and all sorts of merchandize The Queen was met on the confines by my Lord Gentile the Governour of Loretto who when he had complemented the Queen in his Holynesses name returned thence diligently to receive her at the gate of the City As soone as the Queen had discovered the top of the holy house she alighting out of her litter and kneeling with very great devotion kiss'd often the ground then return'd into her litter going on to the bending of the Mountain where afterwards she alighted again and walk'd to the Church The Queen arriving at the Gate of the City was receiv'd by the said Governor and the Magistrates all the Artillery being discharg'd from the walls and the Muskets which were all in rowes in the streets At the gate of the Church she was after the usuall manner receiv'd by the Chapter the Clergy and Bishop where her Majestie remained about half an hour praying with great humility and afterwards went to the Palace where having supp'd privately she retyr'd to her repose On the 8. of December in the morning she arising betimes went to Confession and heard Mass being afterwards present at high Mass sung at the high Altar with exquisite musick As soone as it was ended she presented at the feet of the holy Image a Crown and royal Scepter empailed with Jewels of great value This Princess could not perform the vowes of her Christian generosity with more proper and more significant representations 'T was fit that if she be sure of the true and weighty Kingdom of Heaven had renounced those on Earth should leave a rare remembrance of it in those tokens of royalty of which she had divested her self And since she had done all for Christs sake it was likewise necessary she should leave to his mother a dear and pretious memory of it After this she returned to her lodgings and dined in publique to satisfy the curiosity of the people flock't thither in great throngs out of the Mark and the neighbouring Countries Count Ferretti of Ancona presented the water for her hands and the Lord Bernard Spada Cardinall Spadas nephew the napkin Count Bonarelli of Ancona was her Sewer and Signior Urbane Rocci Nephew to Cardinall Rocci deceased her Cup-bearer After dinner Don Antonia della Cueva with the Lady his wife arriv'd there who as we said before stai'd behind in Ussulengo by reason of her sickness being seen by the Queen with a joy and content correspondent to the love she bare them Her Majesty went afterwards to the Sacristy where she admired the treasure kept there of the rich Presents made to that house by the religious Piety of severall Princes and Gentlemen As she pass'd by the great cupboord in which were the Scepter and Crown presented by her t' was open'd for her to behold them but with her usuall generous modesty she desir'd it might be shut she saying those trifles were unworthy to be seen When she had seen the treasure and the rest of the curious things there she return'd thence to her lodgings where she was entertained with Musique and the Conversation of the Nuntij supping privately afterwards The content joy and tenderness which her Majesty felt in that Sanctuary are incapable of expression These are gifts reserv'd by Heaven to let vs understand that God alone with his gracious mercies can give vs in this world a tast though it be little of the sweetness he instills into a soul enamoured of him In the mean time his Holinesse had received the letter she had written from Inspruch as was said before so as it being afterwards seconded with the news of the Acts of Piety performed in that place by the Queen his Beatitude was very much edified with those demonstrations The said letter was as followes Most Blessed Father Being arrived in the end to what I desired so much my reception into the lap of our holy mother the Roman Catholique Church I would not be wanting to impart it to your Holiness humbly thanking you for the honour I receiv'd of your loving Commands which are observ'd by me with all due respect to your Holiness I have manifested to the world that to obey your Holiness I have left with great gladness that Kingdome where to honour you is held an irremissible sin and have laid by all humane respect to make it appear I value more the glory of obeying your Holiness than that of the most deserving throne I beseech your Holiness to receive me thus devested as I am of all greatness with the fatherly and accustomed Kindness you have hitherto been pleased to shew me I have here nothing else to sacrifice to the holy feet of your Holiness but my selfe together with my blood and my life which I offer to your Holiness with that blind obedience that is due beseeching you to be pleased to dispose so of me as you shall judge best for the Publique good of our holy Church to which and to your Holiness as the onely and true head of the same I have dedicated the remainder of my life with a most ardent desire to imploy and spend it wholy to Gods greater glory To this end I wish your Holiness many fortunate yeares which are so necessary for the good and Common repose of Christianity beseeching our Lord to conserve in your Holiness the great gifts he hath given you and to make me so happy I may see the long'd for day in which I may fall at the holy feet of your Holiness which I humbly doe Kiss entreating you to impart unto me your holy and paternall benediction c. Your Holynesses most obedient Daughter CHRISTINA Inspruch the 5. of November 1655. The City of Loretto reduc'd into the Compass of a little Borough on the edge of a mountain is fruitfull It 's forme is somewhat long at the head of which towards the Sea is the Church nobly painted and in the midst of it the holy house of the Virgin Mary the most glorious Mother of Christ the redeemer of the world Before the gate of the said Temple is a handsome Piazza and in the middle of it a fountain which throwes up store of water On the right hand are the Governours Palace and their habitations who officiat
Pallettonio a Gentleman of much spirit and active with the assistance of whom and the Signior Vincent Pianciani Treasurer of Perugia and Nicholas Benedetti Treasurer of Spoleto all things were performed with good order and punctuality On the 15th in the Morning her Majesty attended by the Cardinall the Nuntij the Ambassadours Prelates Princes and all the Nobility went to the Cathedrall to hear Mass the Souldiers standing in rankes all along in the streets The porch of the Church was beautified with Figures Inscriptions Mottos and other ornaments done by the Cardinall in the name of the clergy of Spoleto When Mass was ended she returned to the Palace and dined in publique with the Cardinall Signior Maffeo Rosari Master of the Camp of the Province and Gentleman of the City presented her the napkin and the ancientest Magistrate in his habit the water for her hands The Nuntij the Spanish Ambassadour Count Montecuccoli and the other cheif persons of the Court dined at the same time in Gentlemens houses where they were well attended and had every thing in order Her Majesty resolved to goe after dinner to the Church of the Dominicans to see many reliques and particularly the holy naile of our Saviour but the great snow hindered all On Wednesday in the evening her Majesty was pleased to goe to the Town-house and hear there a play Sung in musique by some young Gentlemen of the City with severall machines changes of Scenes On the 16th after dinner her Majesty departed from Spoleto being attended by the Cardinall some miles without the City and the Governour to the confines of the Dioces of Terni When the Cardinall took his leave of the Queen hee told him she not onely was highly satisfied With the honours he had done her but extreamly well edified with the very great knowledg she discovered in his discourses with her This Cardinall is of Bologna and of the noble family of the Marquisses Fachenetti being Pope Innocent the ninth's nephew's sonne He was first Referendarius then Nuntio in Spain where he gave a great testimony of his understanding and capacity At his return to Rome he was for his eminent goodness and worth a little while after preferred to the purple on the 13th of July 1643. He is one of those Cardinalls which hold up the glory of the Sacred Colledg and the honour of the Church He hath a quick intellect a solid discourse a setled judgment and a refined prudence in the management of great affaires He hath a grace and sweetness in all his entertainments with which he attracts the encomiums and praises of all those that know him he having especially the generous mind of an Emperour The Citizens of Spoleto endeavour'd to welcome this great Queen with all the expressions of gladness and joy and though to comply with the genius of the Prince the subjects sometimes use to turn the sincerest and purest affection into flattery yet in this occasion the people of Spoleto very fully corresponded with their naturall ingenuity as well with a dutifull respect to second the good intention of his Holiness as to shew the partiality of their ancient inclinations towards this Princesses great name Those of Spoleto as the histories of greatest credit report are nobly descended and happily propagated of the reliques of the Goths who after the fall of their Kingdome in Italy remained in Spoleto as a City very nobly adorned and augmented by Theodorick their King And albeit the hostility of Totilas may diminish much less renew afterwards the least sense of gratitude yet the piety and other sublime qualities of this Queen are advantagiously sufficient to repair very fully whatsoever the deadly remembrance of the cruelties of that King had demolished and restore with ample recompence the memory of the benefits this Countrey so glories to have had from the North. Spoleto is a famous City and abounds with all things being seated at the head of a Plain towards the East partly at the foot of the Mountaines and for the greatest part on the Mountaines themselves It was in former times the residence of the Princes of Lumbardy and is now esteemed among the most conspicuous provinces of Vmbria Here they see the vast Palace of Theodorick the King of the Gothes as likewise the foundation of a very fair Theater and of the Temple of concord and without the City high and strong forms of aqueducts partly cut from the sides of Apenninus and partly raised from the bottome of the valley with arches of brick The high roofes of the Cathedrall are remarkable there the walls of marble the rock built in the Amphitheater and likewise the stone-bridg which supported with great art by 24. great pillars joyned the highest part of the City to the rock or to the Amphitheater seated on another hill Here her Majesty was entertained with musique and particularly being pleased with the skill of Francis Joseph Tomasini who plaid on the Violin received him into her service On the confines of Terni her Majesty was received by my Lord Bonfiglioli of Bologna the Governour of the City who came thither accompanied by forty Gentlemen on horseback with many Servants a foot in fine liveries he having with him many troops of horse and Companies of foot The Queen being come to the gate call'd Spoletana was met by the Nobility and among the rest by six Gentlemen who representing the Magistrates complemented her in the name of the publick and waited on her through the City all along as she passed the streets and windows being beautified with ornaments and lights At her arrivall at the Dome she saw erected before that Piazza a triumphall Arch with very fine Inscriptions and Figures in her praise The Frontispiece of the Church annexed to the Seminary and the Palace of the Bishop resembles a Theater and is beautify'd with thirty windowes which were splendidly adorn'd and most of them had two torches apiece with other lights At the gate of the said Cathedrall her Majestie was received as usually by the chief of the Clergie in the absence of the Cardinal Bishop the Church being richly set forth and illuminated with great store of torches and candles with quires of rare musick and a young man of the house of Sciamanna reciting a Sermon very handsomly The Functions of the Church being ended the Queen by the foresaid my Lord Bonfiglioli the Governour was conducted to the Palace of the Bishop very sumptuously furnish't by the Officers of the Cardinall Bishop her Majestie being pleas'd to heare in that fine Oratory a spirituall play recited to her with excellent musick Don Antonio della Cueva with the Lady his wife and their train were lodged too in that Palace The Nuntii with their retinue were accommodated in the Palace of Signior or Ferdinand Sciamanna the Spanish Ambassadour Pimentel in my Lord Ferentillis Count Montecuccoli in Count Jerome Spadas and the Marquis Bentivogli in Signior Antonio Manasseis
respect and veneration discover'd her Majestie had a good disposition towards Catholiques and therefore with dexterity by opening and enlarging the way so wrought that every day her satisfaction and confidence of him receiv'd augmentation When the Ambassy was finisht Parera prepar'd to be gone in September 1651. het Majesty more frequently than before began to send for the Father aforesaid In the end on the 12th of August retyring with him into her inwardest lodgings and saying she would tell him a business of consequence said thus in his ear Father Macedo you are the first Jesuit I knew and as by the practice and relation I have of your vertue I sâ—ppose I may be confident of your faithfulness and prudence so now since you are to depart I desire by all means you 'l procure me sent hither two Italians of your Society expert in all Knowledge who under the colour of Gentlemen than desire to see the world may stay in my Court that I without suspition may make use of them to which effect I 'le write too by you to your Generall The Father comply'd wiâ—h her Majestie with expressions and a sense peculiar to news of that consequence and giving her due thanks for her confidence of him and offering to serve her with fidelity he swore to be secret Macedo come home full of joy and consolation and beginning to consider of the manner how to execute diligently her Majesties desire resolved to ask leave as he did of the Ambassadour to go see for his own curiosity the fair and great City of Hamburg but could not obtain it so as he return'd to the Queen and told her of the difficulties he hid met with Her Majestie hearing him of a setled resolution to serve her reply'd you may go and say nothing The Father inform'd that the Vessell which should carry him was then in the Haven of Balen 35 miles distant and ready to set sayl towards Lubeck went to take his last leave of the Queen who gave him a letter of credence written and subscrib'd with her own hand and directed to the General of the company of Jesus who then was Father Francis Piccolomini Father Macedo concluded his expressions with humbly beseeching her to consummate her holy inspirations to which she reply'd that if she had known the Roman religion had been best she would have embraced it and that he should cause the two Fathers she desir'd to be sent with whom she might freely discourse and without all suspition having nothing else to say but entreat him again to be secret and quick The Father being licenc'd to depart went out of the gate behind the Court which looks towards the Sea and pass'd in a Feluca to a Rock where he remained that night since he could not reach the Vessell by day The day after he arrived at Balem whether one was now come dispatcht by the Queen at the instance of the foresaid Ambassadour to arrest him and carry him to prison but as he had secret order from her Majestie to let him escape if he found him he fain'd he could not find him and took horse and returned to Stockholm and the Father embarqued himself and sayled towaâ—ds Lubeck on the 2d of September where twelve daies after he arriv'd The Ambassadour soon gave out the Father was a Knave by his flying away in that manner and others divulged he was become a Lutheran and married From thence he arriving in Hamburg steer'd his course towards Nurenberg and finally having run many dangers came to Rome on the 18. of October 1651. Father Piccolomini the Generall of the Society dyed a little before so as he delivered the letter to Father Goswin Nikel who was then Vicar-Generall and afterwards Generall a man of great parts and born in the City of Cullen He embrac'd with great zeal a business of that consequence and as 't is the particular profession of the Society aforesaid to search all the parts of the world to convert to the holy faith both Heretiques and Infidells in which they employ very freely whatsoever is given them in charity and quickly made choice of Father Francis Malines a Reader of Divinity in Turin his Country and Father Paul Casate of Piacenza a professour of Mathematicks in ' the Roman Colledge at Rome men besides integrity of life of most exquisite understanding and great knowledge that as persons desirous to travell and see the world they might without delay take their journey for Swedland They arrived in Venice on the second of December 1651 the one comming out of Piemont and the other from Rome On the twelfth of the said month they departed and prosecuted their journey notwithstnnding the extremity of the weather and only in the beginning of March got ro Stockholm being hinder'd on the way by reason that Father Malines hurt his foot by the fall of his horse which made him keep his bed many daies In the mean time Father Godfrey Franchenius a Jesuit and a man that was truly Apostolicall and of excellent parts was brought by a Tempest from Denmark into Swedland who had frequently treated with the Queen and not without profit but not being able to stay there without being known he before was departed and gone into Flanders These two Fathers arriving in Stockholm were presently conducted to the Queen as Italian Gentlemen and Passengers And albeit her Majestie dissembled in the beginnning they so soon perceiv'd her good disposition and admir'd too in her then 25. years old a soul undeceived and exempt from vanity and the greatness of the world and filled with so equall a Knowledge of all things that she seem'd onely nourisht with the marrow of morall Philosophy Not long after she declared her self resolv'd by a holy inspiration to embrace the Catholick faith and renounce for it her Kingdoms and all humane greatness though there she was not onely esteemed but ador'd with a fuller and more absolute authority than any of her time There 's no doubt but she would very gladly have resetled in Swedland the Catholique faith if she could have overcome the great and many difficulties that lay in the way Too evident was the danger of spoyling the consort of her resolutions if they had smelt the least in that kind Besides too the uncertainty of the end much time was required and hazard of her conscience in which she was impatient to continue without the profession of the Catholique religion and she could by no means profess it occultly When she had with the said Fathers long discussed the means that were fittest for the compassing of her Majesties intentions she determined to let the Pope know her resolution and to send unto him with her letters the said Father Casati who was to inform himself particularly of all that was necessary for her future stay in Rome which then was her design she supposing the said City most fit for her abode not so much for
a good correspondence with the neighbouring Princes that the Genius and Interest of her Majesties Successour would not be the same who probably at his entrance into his principality would have the ambition to make ostentation of his valour and foment his Commanders desires To convince her understanding and divert her from so great a resolution many of the knowing'st and zealousest Ministers whom her Majestie did the honour to trust with her design of renouncing her Kingdom but not with her change of religion advanced so far to presage unto her unlucky events but nothing could retain her in her motion which she urged with all speed Now all things appertaining to that renunciation were in readiness and nothing was wanting but to solemnize it with those publique functions requir'd in such Cases Many Feasts being therefore now made together with tiltings for a happy prediction of the new Kings Coronation in the end on the 17th of January 1654 they brought it to a period The Prince Palatine would have had it deferr'd till the following July while his cloaths and other things becoming the magnificence of this unusuall spectacle were prepar'd But the Queen admitting no delay prevented these demurs with all diligence while each little minute seem'd too long to her for the the finishing her secret intentions She therefore came out of her lodgings that day about nine of the clock in the morning and appear'd in the great open gallery of the Court accompany'd by the Senate and the Grandees of the Palace She wore a stately robe embroyder'd with Crowns of gold and with a comly gravity walking up and down among a great company of Gentlemen and other who out of curiosity came to see so renown'd and unusuall a function sate down in a chair under a Canopy of Silver nobly wrought and adorn'd Here the Lord Zchering Rosemâ—hain a Senatour of the Kingdom read with a loud voice the instrument of donation which her Majestie made to the said Prince Charles Gustavus Palatine and a Patent in which the new King engag'd to the said Queen three Islands and diverse revenues issuing out of Pomerania with other regalities to the yearly value of two hundred thousand crowns Her Majestie accepting the writings rose up and taking the Crown from her head deliver'd it to the Earl Peter Bracch great Praefect and principall Senatour of the Kingdom The Scepter Sword Globe of gold and a Key she consign'd to four great Personages and Ministers of the Kingdom to wit to Count Gustavus Horn Generall of the Militia to Count Gabriel Oxerstern to Count Oxerstern great Chancellour and Count Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie great Treasurer The Queen had nothing left to put off but the royall Robe and she seeing that those to whom it belonged deferr'd to unty it unty'd it her self and in throwing it down sported with her maids of Honour and was pleasant with them while there was not any one in so great a number of persons that could forbear weeping to see this so generous action of the Queen to whom the hearts of all paid the tribute of duty and affection The royall robe being depos'd she was begirt with a very white garment and here with a majestique affability turning towards the Nobility and people with a loud and clear voice and great freenesse of mind pray'd a quartern of an hour with such efficacy and sweetnesse that all remaining equally dazled with the splendour of so much vertue and soften'd with the pleasantness of the manner had such an affection as admits not of comfort nor receives moderation After this with a long and most prudent discourse she advertis'd the new King of many things appertaining to the Kingdoms good Government and affectionately recommended to him the Queen her Mother her Friends and all her Subjects whom she loved so firmly and so she return'd to the very same room whence she came leaving all the people in the darknesse of confusion and bitternesse of sorrow for the losse of that Sun which so long had govern'd them with the influence of his rayes The Prince Palatine two hours after was conducted to the Cathedrall by the Arch-Bishop of Upsalia where he was anointed King and receiv'd the royall ensignes and the next day after the solemn oath was given him by all the four Orders of the Kingdom In these solemnities severall sorts of money of gold and silver â—ere scatter'd up and down as well by the Queen as the King Those by the King had his Picture on the one side and the words Carolus Gustavus and on the other a regal-Crown with these words a Deo Christina Those by the Queen had her Picture on the one side and on the other a Crown with these words Et sine Te. The day after the usuall Oath of loyalty being perform'd to the King by the States the Queen visited and honour'd by all departed from Upsalia towards Stockholm The King accompany'd her to the Mannour of Merstad which is half the way and all the Senatours Gentlemen and chief Ladies of the Court waited on her to Stokholm where she stay'd three daies Here all desired to see her and to be seen by her who receiv'd them with such courtesie and kindnesse that they there made discovery of the pleasure she took to leave them all mindfull of her vertues and government She had made them believe she would go live in the Island of Holland fifty leagues distant from Stockholm in the fair Castle there with a great Park of Deere where the Kings were accustom'd to retire for their pleasure With this report she departed from Stockholm three hours after the setting of the Sun She would depart by night not to see their affections and tears who apprehended the want of so great a Queen and so good a Mother Yet from the royall Palace to the gate of the City the concourse of the people was great but the affliction much greater which oppressed their senses every one as immoveable and mute with their eyes cast down on the earth giving to understand a weighty sorrow hath neither tears nor sighs sufficient to expresse it The King had sent the greatest part of the Court to accompany and attend her among whom were the Lord Charles Soop a person of great quality with the charge of high Steward the Lord Tersen Gentleman of the Chamber and of much desert and vertue with six other Gentlemen of his Majestie all of noble families and merit the Lord Vlifeldt great Master of Denmark retyr'd long since into Swedland under his Majesties protection the Senatours Earl Todt and Baron Lind with Eal Donoau Lievetenant Colonell all three personages of high worth and eminent parts with severall others In her going out of the City she was saluted with the Artillery from the walls and the ships and as she past along the Governours of Forts and Provinces waited on her with their Souldiers She travail'd all
night and the next day in the evening arriv'd at Nikopin the residence of Queen Mary Eleanora her Mother a Princesse of most admirable qualities where she onely stay'd so long to embrace her and give her the last farewell the separation from whom was as sensible peradventure to her as that of her Kingdom In this she went voluntarily far off from the fruition of a very great happinesse and in that went from her who had bequeath'd to her her own blood The same night without taking any other repose she continu'd her journey towards Norkopin a City and Port of the Sea eight leagues distant from Nicopin which was one of the Forts her Majestie had reserved to her self Here she stay'd a day to repose she having not yet slept since her departure from Stockholm The next day she went to Linkopin five leagues farther where she stayed a day and from thence to Junkopin a fortresse fourteen leagues off where she rested that night The day following she advanced to a house of a Swedish Gentleman call'd Giornornotte eight leagues off and here taken with a Plurisy or stitch in her breast she was forc'd to stay eight daies As soon as she was well she gave out she would go another way and instead of advancing towards the foresaid Island of Holland she went towards Alstat a Town situated in Aland a Province which ten years before the Sweeds had taken from the King of Denmark This City is indifferently handsome encompast with strong walls and from the said house some fifteen leagues distant Here she stay'd two daies and dismissed not only the officers of the King who were to wait upon her to the foresaid Castle of Holland but Brodin too the Lutheran Minister who had accompany'd her from Stockholm retaining with her the Senatour Soop and the Earl of Donoau Arriving at Laolin a Castle in the said Province five miles from Almstat she caus'd the same night her hair to be cut and putting on mans cloaths took the way the next morning towards Ingilholm a little Town of the Province of Blekingem belonging to the King of Denmark taking no body with her but the foresaid Lords Soop and Donoau the Earl of Stemberg a Swedish Gentleman of eminent esteem and her great Master of the horse the Lord Wolfe Gentleman of her Chamber and Mr. Apelman her Secretary with three Grooms of the Chamber about nine in all giving out she was the Earl of Donoau a Swede who went to see the world which she did to passe through Denmark without being subject to invitations and entertainment From Ingelhom she came the same night to Helsingbourg a Port of the Sound which is an arm of the Sea about a league in breadth through which passe all the Ships which from the Baltique Sea do sail towards the West where the Danes search usually the Vessells and receive a certain tole She pass'd it in little boats and arriving at Helsenor on th 7th of July when she had refresht her self a little while continu'd her journey with diligence yet omitted not to visit the noble Castle at Federichbaug seated in a very fine prospect three leagues onely distant from Helsenor which as the place of the delights of the Kings of Denmark was sumptuously adorned She came at three hours in the night to Rotschilt a little City seated on the side of a Lake and from thence went to Korsor a Port on the Baltique Sea and the same night pass'd the Bect a branch of the Sea about four leagues broad which divides the Province of Zeland from Funen which belong all to Denmark On the 9th of July at the rising of the Sun she arrived at Nibork which was o're against Korsor a Port of the Sea Here she entertained her self till the Waggons were prepared for travailing which are all cover'd and very commodious like the Caroches in France and the Coaches in Italy She went then to Obensee the Metropolitan City of the said Province of Funen a wall'd Town and full of old Turrets indifferently handsom and civill where the Court of Denmark resides a certain month of the year two leagues near the said Port. She stay'd there that night and passing the next day through Kolding a Towre on an narrow arm of the Sea which serves for a Haven though it be between the land where the King uses somtimes to sojourn she arrived at Hadversleve a little place and encompast with old walls She continu'd thence her journey and the following night came to Flensbourg the chief City and a Port of the Sea of the Province of Jutland renown'd for the great traffique it holds with the North and the West On the tenth she pass'd through Rensbourg a wall'd Town and lay that night at Jetzcho an open place By break of day the next morning she advanced towards Altennau a City belonging to the Earl of Oldembourg between whom and the City of Hambourg there is an ancient quarrell that Earl pretending to greater jurisdiction over a bridge of Hambourg where he receives a little tribute from Altennan near two little leagues the Queen came to Hambourg on the very same day a good while before the setting of the Sun yet she enter'd the Town and remain'd there unknown till the following day and then putting on womans apparell she was seen and known by all Having stay'd there a day she went to Neummunster a City remote a daies journey to see Prince Frederick of Holstein with whom she remained a day treating and concluding the marriage of the King of Swedland with the Princesse Hedvyck Eleonora his Daughter The King of Swedland had discover'd to the Queen his inclination to this match and entreated her favour in the businesse provided her Majesties consent went with his The Queen who could not chose but be glad after giving him a Kingdom to give him too a wife concluded it quickly to the equall obligation of both parties to her She afterwards returning to Hambourg stay'd there till the 30th of July Five daies after her Majesties arrivall the Court which stay'd behind as aforesaid overtook her at Hambourg It consisted of about fifty persons besides the Coaches diverse horses and the baggage with whom were sigre Gustavus di Liliecron a Gentleman of eminent worth and most excellent parts the wife of the foresaid Earl of Stemberg with three of her women Sigre John Wrangell Sigre Silvekron her Steward Doctor Wenleu her Physitian and some Musitians all which took the very same way through Denmark This King having had private notice of her Majesties passage through his Country and ambitious to expresse his devotions to her went presently with his wife and all the Court to Kolding and under the pretence of going a hunting met on purpose her retinue and hearing that her Majestie was there came out of his Coach to look into those of the Swedes but for all his sollicitude and earnestnesse not finding the Queen and assur'd she was
gone by he was much displeased he had been prevented by her Majesties great diligence it troubling him extreamly he could not comply with his duty towards a Princesse of so great desert and condition and so cordially respected by him The end of the first BOOK The History of the sacred and Royall Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Second Book The Argument THe Queen goes into Flanders and comes to Antwerp There she staies The Arch-Duke and others send to complement her The Earl of Buquoy goes thither in the name of his Catholique Majesty After the retreat of the Spanish Camp from the Siege of Arras the Arch-Duke comes to Antwerp to visit her the Prince of Conde doth the same the Duke of Lorraine the Earle of Fuensaldagna and the Grandees of the Court and Army together wâ—th other Princes Earle Raymund monte Cuccoli dispatcht from the Emperour comes for the same Purpose Don Anthony Pimentel is sent unto her by the Catholâ—que King with the title of extraordinary Ambassadour and stayes with her Majestie The Arch-Duke invites the Queen to Bruxells where she is royally received she makes secret profession of the Catholique religion She received advice of the death of the Queen her mother Pope Innocent the tenth dyes Alexander the seventh is assur'd to the Papacy with an universall applause The Queen soone imparts unto him her resolutions and designes She departeth from Bruxells Her Majesties journey to Inspruch While her Majesty stayd at Hambourg diverse Princes and great Lords of the Countreys thereabouts came thither to visit her and with others Prince Christian of Mechelbourg the Duke of Brunswick the three Brothers the Dukes of Lunebourg whose Sister is Queen of Denmark Frederick Landgrave of Hessen with the Princess his Wife sister to Charles the now King of Swedland together with the two Princes Francis Albert and Gregory John of Saxony Lavenbourg The Queen received them all with great courtesy yet privately treated with them as conceal'd Earl Benedict Oxensterne came likewise from Wismar the place of his government to waite upon her Majesty and Generall Koningsmark from Staden in the Bishoprick of Bremen where he was Commander in chief The Landgrave of Hessen on the thirtieth of Iuly gave the Queen a stately feast without the City in a Villa call'd Vanspek All the Princes then in Hambourge were invited thither likewise where they were very merry after supper the Queen returned to Hambourg the gate being open'd for her by order of the senate for the guarding of which till her Majestie was entred the principall Citizens stood in armes and there finding all things convenient for her journey without taking leave of any one she desiring to go more concealed than ever she departed after midnight accompany'd by the Earle of Stemberg Signior Wolfe Gentleman of the Chamber and three Groomes reapparalling herself in mans cloathes She remanded into Swedland the senatour Soop and Earle of Donoau the Countess of Shemberg and the rest remained in the City with order to follow her the next day after and to be at a set time in Amsterdam every one having liberty to take what way he found most convenient for the passages at that time were unsafe by reason of the war between the City of Bremen and the Swedes whom they of the said City endeavoured to expell out of the lands they had seiz'd and possessed in these parts That senate pretended the said holds as members of their juridiction were unjustly detained by the Crowne of Swedland The Swedes refused to quitt them alleadging they were in the province of Bremen but not of the Diocess of that City In the meane time the Citizens of Bremen being armed on the suddaine and assailing the said lands obliged the Swedes to retreat but the King of Sweden afterwards sending thither with his forces the Generally Strangel and Stemboth they not onely recovered the said holds but reduced those of Bremen to surrender them free to Swedland and repaire their losses with a great summe of money On the first day of August at night her Majestie departed from Hambourg and lodged in a Village call'd Bardwick in Westphalia in the jurisdiction of the Duke of Lunebourg She tooke this unfrequented way though there were two other more commodious and more beaten to passe the more secure and unknowne On the second she lay in Rodembourg a little Towne of the said Duke of Lunebourg on the third at the Village of Barembourg and on the fourth at Mindem a strong and considerable City seated on the river Wesser the chiefe of that Province The day after she went to Osnabruck a great and famous City for the meeting there lately of the plenipotentiaryes and ministers of the Protestant Princes for the treatyes of the generall peace of Germany belonging to the Bishop the soveraigne Prince of that place On the sixth she Came to Munster a City renown'd for the conference and peace aforesaid established there by the mediatours and plenipotentiaryes of all the Christian Princes The next morning her Majesty before she departed desir'd to see the Colledge of the Iesuits esteem'd and lov'd by her as persons of great vertue and learning and here while her Majesty went veiwing the things of greatest Curiosity although she was knowne by one of that Company who had her picture by him which was not ill done and resembled her he observing too in her the countersignes given him by a Brother of the Society yet he made no matter of it not to hinder the pleasure she took in not being discover'd Her Majestie departing from Munster on the seventh day lay that night in the village of Ensened and on the eighth at Deventer a principall fortress of the dominion of the Republique of Holland where she saw as she pass'd by one Mr. Granovius a man for his great learning much estemed by her On the ninth she went to Amesfort where arriv'd too the same day the traine of her Majestie to whom she gave order by one of the Groomes of her Chamber that without making shew of knowing her Majestie they should keep on their journey and instead of bending towards Amsterdam according to the first order go directly to Antwerp The States of Holland receiving advice that the Queen gone from Swedland came towards the low Countryes gave order throughout all their Dominions they should stand on their guardes and be ready to receive her with due honours Bun her Majestie pass'd through Deventer Amesfort Vtrecht and other places without being knowne though she was expected every where there On the tenth at night she lay in a Village near Gorcum and passing the next day through the towne indifferently strong on the river Wahal she came to Breda a fortresse as famous in Brabant as renown'd in the warres past on the twelfth of August she ended her journey in Antwerp entering there privately and lodging in the house of Don Garzia Doyliano a Portugese
one of the richest and cheifest of that famous City The day after overtaken by her traine she put on womens cloathes and received the visit of Don Balthasar Marcadero the Commander of the Citadell a person of cleare fame and great valour afterwards in order by the Magistrates of the City and the rest or the principal Gentlemen of that noble Countrey All flock'd to see her with equall Curiosity and respect and dazled with the splendour of her rare endowments and prerogatives were not able to veiw her with greater applause than that of an affectionate and reverent admiration The throngs of the Cityzens were for some dayes so great that they could hardly passe up and downe in the streets that were neare to her Court In the meane time the Arch-Duke the Prince of Conde the Duke of Lorraine and the Earle of Fuensaledagna with the rest of the Princes and Grandees design'd for the direction and Command of the Army in Flanders were all in the field beseiging the most important City of Arres very valiantly defended by the French and invaded by the Spaniards with great earnestness and vigour And though Cardinall Mazarine was most diligent intent to supply it with all necessaryes yet so great was the confidence of the Spanish Commanders that they verily believed to welcome this great Qâ—een with so glorious a victory With thoughts of this kind continuing that seige all the said three Princes sent persons expressly to assure her that they within few dayes disengag'd from that fortress would come and waire upon her with their presence as they did then with their hearts replenisht with joy for the happy arrivall of her Majestie The Earle of Ruquoy a Grandee of Spaine and a Gentleman of much worth design'd by his Catholique Majestie extraordinary Ambassadour to complement the Queen eight dayes after her arrivall in Antwerp gave a very good account to her Majestie of his Commission and was receiv'd by her with many demonstrations of esteem proportionable to his merit and the greatness of the sender But in the meane time the Cardinall having gather'd together the French Army and disposed the orders where no less his refined understanding and conduct than good fortune appear'd the circumvallation being broken and gain'd which by all was thought impenetrable free'd the tottering City to the very great glory and benefit of the Crowne of France His imperiall Highness retur'd then to Bruxelles on the eighth of September and the next day went to Antwerp to complement her Majestie in his person as he had done before with his letters The Queen receiv'd him at the foot of the staires conducted him to her lodgings made him sit downe oâ— against her in such anoâ—her chaire gave him alwayes the title of Highness and accompany'd him to the bottome of the same staires with reciprocal satisfaction still speaking in Italian The Arch-Duke stay'd in Antwerp one day and return'd the next to Bruxells When the Army was retyr'd into the garrisons the Prince of Conde likewise went to wait on her Majestie who as the first Prince of the royall blood of France pretended the Queen should receive and treat him with the formes and prerogatives she had us'd with the Arch-Duke He therefore sent before the President Viola one of the cheife slingers of the Parliament of Paris and the constantest follower of his party to visit her and discover her intention about his reception who related her Majestie would treat him in the forme due to Princes of his quality Viola was not satisfi'd with these generall words but would sound her farther insisting to pretend the same honours done to the Arch-Duke Whereupon the Queen offended perhaps at the diffidence he seemed to have of her warie and generous discreetness resolv'd to hold her owne refusing the Prince those acts of Civility of which as she afterwards declar'd she would have been liberall if he had not pretended to them as his due Viola then unable to compass the business in the manner pretended by the Prince found at last this expedient that his Highness should go visit her privately as he did being treated like a private Cavalier Francis Duke of Lorraine came afterwards received too privately by her Majestie the Earle of Fuensaldagna and diverse other Grandees of Spaine who had their reception in the forme us'd to them by the Catholique King causing them to be covered The tamburet which is a less seat granted usually by Queenes to Princesses of great quality was given to the Dutchesses of Ascot of Auray and the Princess of Ligni all Ladyes of Flanders who went to waite upon her being married to Grandees of Spaine The King of Scots sent likewise the Earle of Norwich to congratulate her arrivall and the Elector of Brandembourg Count Maurice of Nassau and others The Princess too of Conde sent her Gentleman to passe all due complements with her Majestie While the Queen stayd in Antwerp she still employ'd her selfe in noble entertainements sometimes passing her time in seing some morall representations and cheifly in taking notice of many vertuous persons who flockt from all parts to waite upon her Majestie and be knowne to her From the Hague came conceal'd the Queen of Bohemia marry'd heretofore to the Prince Elector Palatine and sister to Charles the first King of England with Princess Elizabeth her daughter and the princess of Orange and onely to see her as they did at a Comedy they being unwilling to be knowne not to be oblig'd perhaps to give her a visit without a returne of the reception they pretended Her Majestie went often to see the house of the Professed and the Colledge of the Iesuits where she saw represented Thyestes in Seneca as she had desir'd and another play intituled Manasses During her stay in Antwerp the Emperour sent to complement her Earle Raymund Montecucoli his Generall of the Horse a person of rare parts eminent fame The said Earle had been in Swedland a little before with the title of Gentleman sent thither by the Emperour to ratisfy the good correspondence of his Imperiall Majestie with that Crowne as likewise the freedom of a reciprocall commerce She receiv'd Montecucoli kindly declaring her selfe much oblig'd to the goodness of Cesar for the honuor he did her whose letters she answer'd with all due respect remanding this Gentleman to Vienna with all satisfaction On the seventeenth of August her Majestie went concealed to Bruxells and lay in the house of Madame Pimentel She not onely saw the palace but twice too the Colledge of the Iesuits and thei ' faire and great library where she shewâ—d her great learning and the very great knowledge she had of rare bookes and grave sciences She stai'd foure dayes in Bruxells and visited there the Monastery of the Carmelite discalceat Nunns of the order of St. Teresa the Ladyes or religious of Berlaymont the principall Monastery of Flanders and the most noble Colledge of the
Bonefires discharging of Canons Mortarpeices and ringing of the Bells which being in that Countrey well tun'd use to make a gratefull harmony Her Majestie lighting at the Palace the Arch-Duke accompany'd her to the lodgings assign'd her which she found hung with the most excellent and pretiousest Tapestries that are made in that Countrey And because 't was somewhat late the Arch-Duke soon dismissed himself leaving her to her repose and so they all did The rest of the night and the two other following many Bonefires were made with discharging of the Ordinance and ringing of the Bells The same Evening the Prince of Conde Francis Duke of Lorraine and the greatest of the Court came to waite uppon her privately and because t was Christmas Eve they suspended other Ceremonies to give no disturbance to devotion On the said 24. of December towards the Evening the Queen accompany'd by his imperiall Highnesse went into the Arch-Dukes farthest Chamber and there in the presence of him of Earle Fuensaldagna the Ambassadour Pimentel the Earle of Montecuccolâ— and Don Agostino Boreno Navarra the Secretary of State made secretly profession of the Roman Catholick Faith before Father Guemes a Dominican This Religious man came from Spain into Flanders with the Ambassadour Pimentel in the quality of his Secretary and as he before had been privy to the businesse so was chosen for this function to keep it the more secret since occasion so requir'd In the foresaid action a thing of some reflection succeeded which was as the Queen had made an end of professing her Faith while Father Guemes said the word I absolve c. all the Ordinance of the City were discharg'd to the wonder of all that assisted at the Function without notice given to the Magistrates who onely had order to have them shot off indeterminately neare the time On Christmas day the Queen accompany'd by the Arch-Duke and all the Grandees of the Court went to the Chapell where there was most rare Musick and an excellent Sermon Her Majestie past afterwards into a great hall where she dined in Publick together with the Arch-Duke where the order held at Wilbrouch was observed in sitting The Earle of Castelmendo a Portugese and Gentleman of the Chamber to his imperiall Highnesse was Cup-bearer to the Queen and Count Atemis a Dutchman Sewer The ambassadour Pimentel the Grandees of Spain assisted standing at the Table but with their hats on All the rest which were many and the chief of the City stood uncover'd On St. Stephens day the Queen likewise dined in publick and afterwards went in Coach to the Court where the Princesses and Ladies of qualitie were proudly adorned for the purpose In her Majesties return to the Palace all the Coaches waited on her one by one in a row and the greatest part alighted to attend her who receiv'd them with courtesie and singular affability to answer the esteeme very highly deserv'd by those Ladies who usually intermeddle with Masculine spirits in the management of the greatest affaires That evening an extraordinary fire-worke being to play the Queen went to see it invited thither by the Arch-Duke Seven weeks together she remained in the Palace treated with all magnificence by his Highness nor was there any want of entertainments of various exercises and vertuous and noble Passetimes among which in the last dayes of Carneval a Play was recited in Musick which was the noblest thing could be seen On the Tenth of February she went from the Arch-Dukes Palace to lodge in the Duke of Egmonts at her Majesties own charge where she was some time employ'd in receiving the visits not onely of the Princes Princesses Ladies and Gentlemen but of many learned Persons which came from all parts either as lines to the centre or as rivers to the Sea Here her Majestie twice a week used some vertuous exercises for the entertainment of her noble and elevated mind which she did continue till the death of Queen Mary Eleonora her Mother which happen'd on the twelfth of March 1655. in Stockholm This so sad news she receiv'd by the Baron of Spaur a Gentleman formerly of her Chamber and Resident in France dispatched to her by the King of Swedland At this sorrowfull advice she quickly retir'd to a house without Bruxells call'd Tervoren and remain'd there three weeks to divert her afflictions returning thence afterwards to the City where all did condole with her Majestie she likewise put on Mourning in her mind depriving it of all recreation and Passetime Now Father Malines was return'd from Spain to Rome with the Letters of the Catholick King to Pope Innocent to accompany the Queens but it being thought afterwards the conjunctures then were not altogether proportionable to the quality and convenience of so weighty and important a businesse they deferr'd the presenting them for the reasons we shall register more diffusely in its place in the universall History Things pass'd in this manner for some months the Queen entertaining still her self in Flanders in the mean time Innocent the tenth having reigned ten years three months and twenty two daies gave up his soul to God in the age of eighty and one year on the 7. of January 1655. The sacred Colledge after the obsequies and usuall congregations went into the Conclave on the 18th of the foresaid Month and at last came out gloriously on the 7. of the following Aprill with having assum'd to the Papaly Cardinaâ—l Fabius Chigi of Sienna who with the name he took renew'd the immortall and still more happy memory of Pope Alexander the third his Countreyman and Kinsman I cannot expresse the joy and applause with which by all Christianity his election was receiv'd as made with quietnesse liberty and an exact balance of his merits The Heretiques themselves who by reason of the length of the Conclave occasion'd by the power ana discord of the factions were not wanting to murmur when they heard of so worthy an election commended it with opinions of esteem respect and reverence and all was but due to the merit of a Person and name so plausible and Majestick who with the fame of great presag'd a Principality full of Zeal and Christian edification and therefore most sutable to the necessities of Christianity The Queen was glad of this so happy newes justly hoping to find in the new shepheard of Christs flock that charity and resolution her necessities could promise themselves from a heart remov'd from all private interest and wholly intent to the honour alone of God the exaltatation of his Church and the happinesse security and repose of all Christendome The Queen then determining to give an account out of hand to his Holinesse of all that had succeeded as well of the profession she had made as the reasons that had mov'd her to conceale it of her desire to goe to Rome to give him all obedience and kisse his Holinesses foot quickly wrote to the foresaid Father Malines now
remaining in Rome and sent him the fresh Letters for his Holinesse to the end he should present them as he did on the first day of July The Pope at that advice representing in his countenance and testifying in his words the joy and content news so good and so great did deserve call'd happy his Papacy for bringing a Queen to his feet with motives and resolutions so worthy and unparalell'd whereupon he reply'd t was necessary her Majestie ere she came into Italy or at least ere she enter'd the dominions of the Church should publickly make Profession of the Catholick Faith she before had made privately for if at her entrance into the said dominions it appear'd not she was now a Catholick she could not there be receiv'd with those demonstrations of honour his Holinesse had design'd her All things were easily reconcil'd and in the mean time fresh Letters came likewise out of Spain from that King to the Pope to whom they were presented by the Duke of Terranova Ambassadour for his Catholick Majestie in Rome The Queen having caused all things to be pâ—ovided for her journey with expressions of Kindness and gratitude gave all thanks to the Arch-Duke and the Miniâ—ters of the Catholick King for her noble entertainment and here as in each other place she had done she made her unexpressible magnificence and splendour appear by presenting his imperiall Highnesse with a proud and generous Swedish horse with a Sadle Bridle and Pistols enricht all with Diamonds to the value of above thirty thousand Crowns the Earl of Fuensaldagna with a horse like the other and Furniture worth above Ten thousand Crowns and all the other Officers and Servants with Donatives to the value of above ten thousand Pistolls to their admiration who conceived this Princesse as provident as generous had cause to reflect on the future necessities into which she might easily fall but they were deceiv'd for the same generosity and freedome with which she had parted with her Kingdoms made her more liberall than ever On the 22. of September in the year 1655. she departed from Bruxels accompany'd by the Arch-Duke and all the Nobility as well the Gentlemen as Ladies two leagues without the City and at her going out was saluted by all the Canon on the walls and the Musketeers placed in order every where as she pass'd Her Majestie departed highly satisfy'd with the honours received from his imperiall Highness a Prince indeed of so Noble a spirit and so great a mind that he shews he conserves in his heart the ancient and still stronger impressions of the valour and vertue peculiar to his most royall House being worthy in fine of the love veneration applauses and obsequiousness of all That night she lay in Lorrain some seven leagues distant a great City encompass'd with strong and ancient walls fill'd up with earth and famous for the Military successes of which it hath been the Theater in our time Those Senatours had offer'd and prepared her a lodging but her Majestie refusing it was content to be receiv'd by the Magistrates at the gate with the inhabitants in Armes and the discharging of the Canon a Present of 24. great bottles of wine presented to her in the name of the City according to the custome in that Countrey The Queen had with her of her own domesticks about fifty Persons among whom was Monsieur Liliecron Gentleman of her Chamber Monsieur Apelgren her Taster four Grooms of the Chamber two maids of Honour the one a Swede the other a Fleming Sigre Retius a Spaniard her Treasurer Monsieur Gillbert a Frenchman her Secretary three Italians Musitians Father Guemes the Dominican who went in a secular habit to serve there the better and more easily the Queen in saying Masse privately six Pages six Groomes and diverse other servants together with thirty souldiers of her Guard three Coaches and foure Waggons of baggage To these was joyn'd Don Anthony della Cuera di Silva a Spanish Gentleman of eminent quality of a very great spirit and most courteous and affable Lieutenant General of the Cavalry of Flanders and Serjeant major General of the battle He waited on the Queen with the title of her Majesties great Master of the Horse accompanied with the Lady his wife Madam de Broy of a very Noble family in Flanders and the chief Maid of Honour to the Queen a Lady of much vertue and noble deportment who carried with them eighteen servants of their own Don Anthony Pimentel follow'd likewise the Queen as extraordinary Embassadour of his Catholick Majesty to her to assist her and serve her in the journey with a train of twenty men for the purpose Diverse other persons afterwards of quality accompanyed her among whom was Don Francis Dessa of Portugal a Gentleman nobly born and of very great valour in recompence of his merits design'd to the command of General of the Artillery of the Kingdom of Naples who had ten persons with him The young Earl of Buquoy formerly Page to the Arch-Duke who went to Rome with the Eearl of Trassigny his camrade both Gentlemen of Flanders Don Romano Montero a Spanish Serjant Major no lesse famous in war with his sword than renowned in peace for his pen. Don Bernardino di Liepa of Sivill a youth of much spirit and great expectation Messieurs de Gans brothers and Monsieur Pos Hollanders Monsieur Levit a Fleming with many other persons of Honour and Civility so as the Queens Court was grown very numerous being about two hundred persons in all who were all at the Queens charge except the retinue of the Embassadour Pimentel who travelled by himself and at his own cost On the 23 of September her Majestie din'd at Louvaine a chief town in Brabant and one of the greatest in the low Countreys being renown'd for the wars past When the University had waited upon her she went that evening to Montaga some five leagues remote where she visited a miraculous Image of our Lady The next day she passing through Bering din'd there and came that night to Becht a village eight leagues distant In the morning betimes she dined in Steinbruch a village three leagues farther The Earle of Isenghien Prince of Mamines a Spanish Gentleman of a very noble family and Most eminent parts Governor of Gelders and the town of Rurmond overtook the Queen here with a regiment of foot a regiment of horse to invite her to this City where her Majesty was received by the souldiers in armes and discharging all the Canon being royally treated and defray'd by the said Prince Here she saw a rare firework and her Majesty din'd publiquely alone waited on at table by the foresaid Prince and the most conspicuous Officers of war As soon as her Majesty arrived in Ruremond the Bishop the supream Senate of of that Province and the chamber of accounts came to wait upon her All the night they made fireworks in the
place and the Queen went to see them in the house of Counsellor Blitterwich where her Majesty saw diverse curiosities collected by that vertuous and well qualifi'd Gentleman Ruremond is distant seven leagues from the said village of Steinbruch seated on the banks of the river Mose strong in moderne bulwarks large ditches and exteriour fortifications and regular with a very good Garrison it standing on the confines of the Holland dominion very famous in times past and particularly for the mutiny there of a part of the Spanish Army in the beginning of those wars The Princesse of Mamines went beyond the river Mose and met her Majesty with a numerous train Before she departed she was complemented by the Magistrates and presented with the usual wine That evening she went to Arquellens a little City with an old fashion wall some six leagues remote belonging to the said Princes Government who waited on her thither and loâ—g'd her He afterwards dismissing himself on the confines of his jurisdiction the Queen with all her traine advanc'd towards the Abby of Castre a countrey of the Duke of Giuliers where albeit the Abbot the Lord of the place was not present she had the conveniencie of lodging in his Palace six leagues distant from Arquellens where a Gentleman of the Duke of Newbourg arriv'd to complement her Majesty in his name who receiv'd the civility with her usual kindnesse and courtesie On the 28 she removed from Castre to Cullen distant five leagues a City renowun'd as well for its greatnesse as for its great commerce being one of the cheifest of Germany seated on the Rhyne and encompassed with a large circuite of walls and old fashion Towers Here although she was expected by the Senate and the Citizens in armes and with sumptuous preparation yet refusing all invitation except the commodity and pleasure of passage shee made with expedition through the City she passed the river and went and din'd in the Borough of Hof which is o're against the City lodging in an Inne At her entrance into Cullen she was welcom'd by all the Canon on the walls and in her said passage found the streets full of souldiers in armes The Magistrates sent afterwards to complement her Majestie and gave her the accustomed present of 25 greeat bottles of wine which the Queen caus'd to be given to the Carmelite discalceat Nuns together with other almes the effects of her generous piety After dinner she departed from Hof and went and lay that night some four leagues farther in a very fine Castle call'd Siebourg or Zibery very strong and well fortifi'd seated on an arme of the Rhine The said Castle belongs to an Abbot who is a Dutch Prince and came out to meet her and treated her splendidly not onely that night but the other two following dayes she stayed there for her repose Departing from thence on the first of October the Abbot accompanied her to the confines with two companies of foot and as well at her departure as arrival all the Canon in the fortresse saluted her That night 4 leagues off she lay in a poor village called Virembous where all her attendance endured as much as they had been feasted the foregoing dayes From Virembous she went and dined in Aldem Kircken and lay that night in Hackbourgh a town five leagues distant The next morning her Majestie arriving in Valmerode a village three leagues farther with intention alone to dine there was surprized with a little feaver which made her stay there the remainder of that day and the following night but having let blood and taken some rest she the next day continu'd her journey advancing six leagues and arriving on the fourth in the evening at Lembourgh a little walled town of the Elector of Triers in a manner wholly ruined by the former wars as all the rest were in the country thereabouts in having been more than any other infested by souldiers now of this now that party or perhaps for its unfortunate scituation or because peradventure that territory is one of the fruitfulest and pleasantest of Germany the fields and the hills abounding with fruit and the plains watered every where with great quantity of brooks She breakfasted in Lambourg and when she was advanced towards Koningstein a little City with a very strong Castle belonging to the Elector of Mentz she arrived there a good while before the setting of the sun being received with discharging all the Ordinance and invited by the Governour who complemented her Majestie in the name of the Elector his Master but her Majestie refusing his offer would needs lodge in the Inne and defray too her selfe staying there all the sixth of Octâ—ber The Resident of Charles the second King of Scotland came hither from Franckfort to visit her and desire audience in the behalf of his Master who arrived there after dinner and was though privately received with all courtesie they remaining and discoursing together above two houres With the King was the Duke of Glocester his Brother a youth full of spirit together with other Gentlemen who waited on the Queen and were received by her with great demonstrations of esteem affection Her Majesty met the King on the top of the staires accompanying him from thence Being come into the chamber they sate down and 't was observed the King being covered at first took off his hat presently after and alwayes stood bare shewing very much respect who taking his leave the same day returned thence to Franckfort After the King Scotland came Charles the Prince Elector Palatine who likewise was privately received but with all tearms of love and esteem His Electoral Highnesse had intention to receive and treat her Majesty in Heydelberg the City of his residence and therefore invited her thither but she excused it that way being out of the line of her journey Prince Robert the said Electors brother came afterwards who complemented the Queen and the like did a Gentleman sent expresly by the Princesse Electresse Palatine sister to the Prince of Taranto a french woman of the ancient and noble house of Tremoglia This great Lady being a little indisposed in Frankfort whither she came to see the Faire which is usually four times the year with a very great concours of Merchants and merchandize sent to excuse her self she could not wait upon her in person to expresse the devotions and affections of her heart The Queen received them all with great kindnesse and remanded them well satisfied The day after on the seventh of October she passed through the City of Franckfort three leagues onely distant from Koningstien and without making any stay there went and lay three leagues farther at a little walled Town called Steinhain where her Majesty was received and met by the Brother of the Elector of Mentz dispatched expresly by his Electoral Eminence with a troup of horse to the end they might attend her through his jurisdiction Here likewise Monsieur Wambolt Coronel
horsemen full of chief Ladies and the rest of the Queens Court. At the entrance into the City she was welcomed with the discharging of fifty pieces of Ordinance many Mortarpieces and thick Squadrons of Musqueteers who wiâ—h many other Souldiers stood in ranks in the streets the houses being adorned wiâ—h rich furniture and the concourse of people very great Her Majesty was lodged in the Arch-Dukes Palace his Highnesse accompanying her to the lodgings designed her where he presently left her to her rest But the Citizens in the darknesse of the night made every where resplendent with bonefires the joy and content of their hearts for having with them a Princesse of so high a condition The End of the Second Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Third Book The Argument THe Pope receiving advice of the Queens departure from Bruxells towards Italy declares foure Nuntii to receive her on the confines of the Churches Dominions His Beatitude dispatches to her my Lord Luke Holstenius She continues her journey through Germany Holstenius arrives in Inspruch where her Majestie is royally received There she makes publick profession of the Catholick faith performed with great solemnity She departs from Inspruch with great satisfaction She arrives at Trent and is magnificently served by the Prince the Bishop She passes through the State of Venice and is regally received in the Territory of the Duke of Manrova She departs thence and enters the Churches dominions AS soon as the Pope had advice of the Queens departure from Bruxells his Holinesse on the sixth of October sent for my Lord Luke Holstenius principal Apostolical Notary Canon of St. Peters Church and Keeper of the Vatican Library a person very famous for his learning and erudition and a Gentleman of the City of Hembourg To him he imparted the purpose he had of sending him to be assistant at the profession of Faith his Holinesse understood should be made by the Queen ere she came into Italy or at least into the Churches Dominions He therefore gave him order to prepare with all diligence for his journey and when his Beatitude had declared four extraordinary Nuntii to receive her on the confines of the Ecclesiastical State to wit my Lord Hanibal Bentivogli Arch-Bishop of Thebes my Lord Torreggiani Arch-Bishop of Ravenna my Lord Carraccioli Dean of the Clark of the Chamber and my Lord Cesarini Clark of the Chamber persons of great vertue and nobility he consigned them their instructions and two briefs each of which was to them of the following tenor To the Reverend Bretheren Hanibal of Thebes and Luke of Ravenna Arch-Bishops as also to our beloved Sonnes Mr. Innico Carraccioli and Philip Cesarini Clarkes of our Apostolicall Chamber Alexander the VIIth Pope REverend Brethren and beloved Sons Greeting and Apostolicall benediction Your approved wisdom in acting affairs and singular faithfulnesse and devotion to us and the Apostolicall Sea with other deserving vertues accompanied with the noblenesse of your Families with which we know you manifoldly adorned by the Lord are the cause we use gladly your help in a businesse of great weight firmly hoping in the Lord that in the execution thereof you abundantly will satisfie our expectation Wherefore through our Apostolicall authority by vertue of these presents we create constitute and depute you extraordinary Nuntii of us and the Sea Apostolâ—call aforesaid to receive in the name both of us and the same Apostolicall Sea our most dear Daughter in Christ Christina the Illustrious Queen of Swedland in her journey to this our renowned City any thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Dated at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the ring of the fisher on the XXIXth day of October 1655. In the first year of our Papacy G. Gualterius On the 10th of October in the evening the Breifs with the letters and instructions were consignd'd to my Lord Luke Holstenius by my Lord Julius Rospigliosi Arch-Bishop of Tarsus Secretary of state to his Holiness One of the Breifs was for the Queens Majestie which by us shall be register'd in it's place the other for their Highnesses the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand the Arch-Duchess Charles the second Duke of Mantoua the Prince the Bishop of Trent and the Bishop of Bâ—essanon On the 10th then of October the foresaid Holstenius departed from Rome with all secresy accompany'd by order of the Pope with Father Mâ—lines the Jusuit a man of great ability and withall well inform'd of the Genius as well of the Queen as her Court he haveing been in Swedland as aforesaid for a while with particular satisfaction to her Majestie He arriving in Bologna on the 19th of October had advice that the Queen was at Franckfort on the 6th so as fearing she might get to Inspruch before him he resolv'd to send before him by post as he did the said Father Malines to the end at all adventures he might beseech the Queen to be pleas'd to stay in Inspruch till he came Conferring in Bologna with Cardinall Lomellino the Legate he consigned to him the Popes Breif of the following tenor To our beloved Son Cardinal Lomellino of the holy Church of Rome Legate of Bologna OUr beloved Son greeting and Apostolicall benediction Our beloved Son Luke Holstenius of our houshould principall Apostolicall Notary Canon of the Church of St. Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library is going into Germany to act by our command affairs of high concern appertaining to this holy Sea whom as famous for his piety as his various and solid learning and esteemed by us for his faithfulnesse if you shall with all courtesie receive you will do a thing worthy of our love towards you and becomming your own inclination to such men And we impart to you our Apostolicall benediction Given at Rome at Saint Maries the greater under the ring of the fisher on the 10th of October 1655. in the first year of our Papacy Natalis Rondininus He went afterwards to Mantoua on the 21th but found not there his Highness who was gone to Casal The same evening he visited her Highness the Dutchess Mary in the Monastery of S. Vrsula but told her not the business that carry'd him into Germany for her Highness haveing many Nunns about her and being thick of hearing he could not tell her of it without speaking loud and discovering it to many other persons there present Here the Marquis Octavius Gonzaga gave him a particular relation of what had past in Franckfort about the Queens journey and her traine and he quickly sent the newes of it to Rome and to the Cardinall Legates He going thence to Trent arriv'd on the 24th and waited on the Prince the Bishop presenting to him the Apostolicall Breife the contents of which were To our Reverend Brother the Bishop of Trent Alexander the VIIth Pope REverend Brother greeting and Apostolicall benediction
subscribed I Sâ—gâ—smond Francis Arch-Duke of Austria Bishop of Auspurge c. have been a witnesse and subscribed I Don Antonio Pimentel de Prado Embassador of the Catholick King have been a witnesse and subscribed I Luke Holstenius Canon of Saint Peters in Rome have received this Profession and sâ—bscribed Which were likewise afterwards authenticated with the Act of a publick Notary and with the legality of the Arch Dukes Records in the following form In the name of Christ Amen In the year of our Lord 1655. and the eighth indiction on the third of November in the first year of the Papacâ—e of our most holy Father in Christ Alexander the seventh at Inspruch in the Dioces of Brixia about noone in the Arch-Dukes Church of the holy Crosse before the high Altar the most noble Lady Christina Queen of Swedland personally there present freely and delâ—berately on her knees with a clear voice before the above-written witnesses required thereunto in the face of the Church and touching the holy Gospells pronounced this subscribed profession of the Catholick faith Which Profession of faith being ended the most illustrious Queen and Right Honourable and most reverend Lord Luke Holsienius Canon of Saint Peters in Rome and one of the houshold and continual attendance at the table of our most holy Father in Christ very favourably required of me the Notary under-written that in order to this businesse I would make one or more publick instruments in perpetual remembrance of the thing And because I undernamed publick Notary was present with the witnesses at the publick profession of the Catholick faith made by the most illustrious Queen Christina c. and received by the most Reverend Lord Holstenius in the name and stead of the Roman Apostolical Sea according to the order appointed by the holy Council of Trent by vertue of his Apostolical delegation both it and the subscriptions to set dâ—wn I have both seen and heard In testimony therefore of this I have made this present publick instrument have written it with my own hand subscribed and published it and with the usual seal of my Office of Notary being thereunto required have confirmed it Dated as above Nicholas Zerzer the Arch-Dukes Counsellor Secretary and publick Notary by Papal and Imperial authority We N. N. President Chancellor Regents and Counsellors of the Provinces of the upper Austria belonging to the most Illustrious Prince Ferdidinand Charles Arch-Duke of Austria c. do witnesse the above named Nicholas Zerzer the Arch-Dukes Counsellor and also Secretary of the Provinces of the higher Austria is a legal and authentical Notary as abovesaid and therefore to his writings and publick instruments in judgments and out here and every where a full and undoubted faith may and ought to be given In testimony whereof we here present have confirmed it with the Arch-Dukes Seale Dated at Inspruch the 8th day of November 1655. John Christopher Castner of Castenstein Counsellor to the Arch-Duke and President of the Arches Her Majesty remaining in Inspruch thought it good to write this following letter to the King of Swedland the contents of which were Dear Brother I Am happily arrived here where I found the Permission and Order of his Holinesse to declare my self what I am and have been long ago I think my self fortunate in obeying him and have preferred this glory before that of reigning o're the potent Dominions you possesse You should like my resolutâ—on though you thought it not good since to you 't is so profitable and so glorious However I protest unto you I have not at all changed the sense of the friendship I have ever had for you nor the love I owe Swedland which I will preserve as long as I live and eternally be Dear Brother Your most affectionate Sister and Friend CHRISTINA Inspruch Novemb. 4. 1655. Two houres after dinner the Queen went from Inspruch with all her attendance accompanied by their Highnesses some part of the way and waited on by the Baron of Freyberg together with all the Officers and the same train that went to meet her being alwaies very generously defrayed by that Prince to the very last confines of his state The same evening the Queen went from Inspruch Holstenius dispatcht a Courier to the Cardinal Legat of Ferrara advising him of her Majesties advance towards that place and that he might be sure she would be in the Churches dominions on the two and twentieth following In the mean time he continued in Inspruch to perfect the publick instrument of the act of Profession in the Notaries acts and here on that account he being necessitated to expect till the next day after noone he departed then likewise and overtook the Queen just as she was going out of Stersen after dinner on the tenth On the eighth at night her Majesty lay at Motera a little town of Tyrole between Inspâ—uch and the mountain Prainer and the following morning arrived there from Inspruch the Baron John George Clinig Gentleman of the Chamber to his Highnesse and Count Francis di Lodrone Gentleman of the Chamber to Prince Sigismond to visit her Majesty in the name of their Masters to enquire of her health to wish her a good journey and see if she wanted any thing Complements used by Princes among one another in like cases The Queen dispatcht presently the Lord Lilliecron Gentleman of her Chamber to Inspruch to return their Highnesses complement and thence pursued her journey going that night to Stersen a little town seated not far from the foresaid mountain of Prainer in a large space of a very fertile plain shut up on all sides by high mountains From Stersen her Majesty went to Bressanon whom the Bishop and Prince of the City my Lord Anthony Crolino met with a noble traine and lodged with all magnificence that night The day after on the eleventh having dined at Colmar a place that was halfway her Majesty arrived that evening at Bolgiano a very great Town between the mountains in the spatiousest place of the plain where the clear river Adice made navigable carries with a rapid current all the Merchandize sent into Italy from those noble Faires which are usually kept foure times a year A little before they arrived at Bolgiano a Courier came to Holstenius dispatcht from the Legat of Ferrara and the Nuntii to have an assurance of the way by which her Majesty would come into the Countrey of Ferrara to wit if through the state of Venice or of Mantoua but he being unable to give them any answer of that the Venetians having then not declared by what place they would give her leave to passe he detained the Courier till he knew their resolution The four Nuntii were departed now from Rome with Signior Fulvie Servanzii one of the Masters of the Ceremonies and Signior Nuntiato Baldocci one of the Computists of the Apostolical Chamber and with a great retinue and baggage answerable to the greatnesse
of their charge who going easie journeys through Umbria Marca and Romagna were come to Ferrara His Holinesse made choice of this Officer of the Chamber that he by his conduct and integrity might look to the charges of the lodgings which were to be defrayed by the Chamber and see that all things were in very good order as indeed they were alwaies when directed by him And because his Beatitude was extreamly concerned that every thing should be done very splendidly and punctually his Holinesse with a Note of his hand directed to my Lord Franzoni Treasurer general gave order on the 23 of October of the year 1655 that to the said Baldocci he should cause to be paid without any limitation what money he should use and to the said Baldocci he likewise gave authority to make the reckonings even of himself without the accustomed Congregation of accounts And because the charge of Computist of the Chamber is an Office of great weight in the absence of Signior Nuntiato Baldocci aforesaid Signiore Giovanni his Brother had the place who had given many honourable and very worthy proofes of his experience in the employment of Computist of his Holinesses Souldiers in the siege of Castro and likewise in Dalmatia in that of Collateral for the souldiers which warred for the Republick of Venice against the Turke where he was four years exercising besides for two years together the Paymasters place in the absence of the other The said Baldocci as a Minister very zealous for his Holinesses good service arriving at Civita Castallana took Post and rode in great haste to speak with all the Legates and Governors of the places appointed for her Majesties lodgings presenting to them the Popes note aforesaid as likewise the letters of the Secretary of State and the Lord Treasurer general with leaving money every where according to their need and adding by word of mouth what seemed to him fit for a businesse of that nature and wholly agreeable to his Holinesses intention and thus he did all along to Ferrara whither he came six dayes before the arrival of the Nuntii and just in a time when they had not the least information that the Queen was departed from Inspruch insomuch as the time was commodious for preparing of all things for her Majesties reception To Ferrara came likewise opportunely the Coach sent by his Holinesse the Litter and Chaire with the Quartermasters and Harbenger for ordering of the lodgings with two noble beds both alike with Chaires of the same to the end that her Majestie should lye all the journey in her usual beds and one might go before unto the other lodging The cloath of state the carpet and many other things were sent from Rome even the table to eat on the gilt furniture of the Cup-board with divers other Officers all under the command of Baldocci While the Queen staid in Inspruch there arrived the Baron Giovanni Georgio di Fermiano a Gentleman of great spirit and parts dispatcht from the Prince Charles Emanuel Madruzzi the Bishop of Trent and Count of Chiullant to invite her to that City with expressions of obsequiousnesse and respect Her Majesty seeming to like the invitation replyed with her accustomed civility that her passage was granted her by the Republick of Venice with this expresse condition that she should not stay in Trent nor Roveredo and therefore she could not have the honour of his invitation The Baron soon informed the Prince of all who very desirous to serve her in his state sent back without delay a Courier with letters to the Embassadour Pimentel to Don Antonio della Cueva to Count Montecuccoli and my Lord Holstenius entreating them to use their authority with her Majesty for obtaining his desire in order to her lodging in Trent since the supposition of the plague was most false they enjoying perfect health in that City These Gentlemen employed themselves joyntly to comply with the said Princes desire and the Baron of Fermiano had a very courteous audience of the Queen in Bolgiano where he reinvited her receiving this answer from her Majesty that out of the confidence she promised her self she could have in the kindnesse of the Prince though she had not been invited by him she would have invited her self but that the forementioned oppositions to her great displeasure were her hinderance yet that howsoever she was much obliged to the courtesie of the Prince The Baron advised him of all and he with greater vigour persisting in his courteous earnestness the shortness of the time not permitting him to write unto Venice wrote incontinently to the Governours of Verona to have leave to lodge her Majesty in Trent But doubting in the mean time he should not have a favourable answer or if it were favourable it would come too late he gave order again to the Baron aforesaid if he could not have the honour of receiving her Majesty in Trent to procure she would be pleased at least to accept of some refreshing in the town of Lavis the last of the Dioces of Trent and which divides the confines of Italy from those of Germany The Baron performed every thing with his powerful endeavours and the Queen was contented to accept the oblation The Queen departing from Bolgiano on the thirteenth of the month lay at Egna that night a town not long before with another place called Salorno bought by Signior Zenobi di Verona a Nobleman of Venice Here arrived a Courier from the Duke of Mantoua with letters to her Majesty to invite her to that City His Highness had sent to that end the Marquess Andreasi Captain of his guard but because the passages were shut he had been constrained to stay at Volargna a village belonging to Verona a little way distant from Chiusa which is a narrow passage and strong where there is a constant Garrison of souldiers and albeit the Queen refused his invitation excusing her self that she could not go out of the way she going directly to Rome and was not then certain where she should have leave to passe by the Venetians yet she reserved her self to accept of his favour in case she should passe through his Highnesses dominions On the fourteenth her Majesty came to Lavis before fifteen houres and there in the name of the said Prince of Trent she was again invited to stay at least and dine in that City since they had gotten leave from Verona to receive her The Queen then resolved to accept the invitation and went the next morning to Masse in the Cathedral Church and dined in the Palace Madruzzo a very pleasant place called Belvedere which was a Musquet shot without the town At four houres in the night she resolved to dine there the next day so as they immediately sent the Prince notice of it who to his great content understanding the good news caused all things to be presently prepared for the splendid reception of so noble a Princesse
In the mean time her Majesty was presented at Lavis with a noble and most plentiful treatment which consisted of great store of excelent sweet-meats pasts of Genoua wilde fowle all sorts of venison and poultry sea-fish and fresh-water fish of extraordinary greatnesse and in fine most rare fruits and sallads of all kindes All that were there not onely extolled but wondered at this splendid and magnificent entertainment The Queen was much pleased and observed it with particular satisfaction expressing her self much obliged to this generous Prince and admiring as much the punctuality and good order with which its perfection and exquisitnesse appeared Lavis is a little open town situated in the plain between the entrance of those most high Mountaines and washt by the river Lavis from which it takes the name which falling from the Alpes into a narrow vally on the left hand with a very rapid current joynes it self to the river Adige which dividing all the length of the plain is a little below Bolgiano still navigable to the sea on which they traffique greatly out of Germany into Italy On this river Lavis there is a great bridge somewhat long and covered over where usually stands a guard to collect some little tribute of the passengers which is called passage-money This town appertaines to the principality of Trent and here end the confines of Italy with Germany for not far from thence they begin to speak Dutch 'T is distant three Dutch leagues from the City of Trent and for the continual concourse of people and merchandize passing through it is full of inhabitants and very commodious houses with many rich families made very advantagious by their industry as they are almost every where in the Country of Tyrole where though the scituation be narrow and barren yet all things that are necessary for mans life as flesh and wilde game are there in great abundance and perfection with very noble hunting fit and proper for their pleasure who are delighted with it The End of the Third Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Fourth Book The Argument THe Queen continues her journey through Tyrole towards Italy and is invited and royally treated by the Prince the Bishop of Trent From Tyrole she passes concealed through the State of Venice She enters into the Territory of Mantoua and is courteously received by that Duke She is received on the Confines of the Churches Dominions by the Nuntii of his Holinesse where she is splendidly entertained She receives the same entertainments in Bologna Imola and Faenza by the Cardinals Lomellino Donghi and Rossetti THe next morning her Majesty advanced towards Trent whence the Prince came and met her on horseback accompanied by above two hundred and fifty Gentlemen all persons of quality among whom besides the Baron of Fermiano aforesaid the hereditary Marshal of the Principality of Trent and Lord Chamberlain of the golden Key to his Highnesse the Arch-Duke there was the Vicar General Alberti Dean Guelfi the Arch-Deacon Count John Baptist di Lodrone Bernard Malanotte and Charles Pompeati Canons of Trent The Counts Philip di Lodrone Paris di Lodrone Colico di Arco The Signiori Walsperghieri Gaudentio de Wolchestain Christopher Mattirli and others well born and of ancient and conspicuous Nobility At the village of Gardolo three miles distant from Trent the Prince alighting and approaching to her Majesties Litter gave her a short Complement inviting her to dinner at his house which her Majesty accepting with a very pleasant countenance he complemented likewise the Embassador Pimentel Don Antonio della Cueva Count Montecuccoli and my Lord Holstenius After this they went towards the City the Prince riding on the right hand of Count Montecuccoli before the Queens Litter Her Majesty alighted at the gate of the Dome and was there received by all the Clergy the Canons intervening and assisting under a Canopy carried by the Gentlemen of the Colledge of Trent She kneeled on a cushion of cloth of gold kissed the Crosse and received holy water from my Lord Joseph Guelfi Dean of the Cathedral going into the Church where they sung the Hymne She is beautiful c. and kneeling at the Altar of the Crucifix before which were publisht long since the decrees of the holy Council of Trent Here on a royal Carpet raised from the ground covered likewise with a cloath of state shee heard with particular devotion the holy Masse celebrated by the Vicar after which under the same Canopy carryed as before she went on foot to the Church of Saint Mary the greater attended by many Ladies and there hearing the famous Organ of that Church renowned for the Council aforesaid held there having likewise viewed the picture of the Sessions of the Council aforesaid she went into her litter giving order to be carried to the Church of Saint Peter where she saw the uncorrupted and famous body of the glorious Martyr and Childe Simon of Trents going aftervards to dinner to the Palace of Madruzzo The table was royally furnisht with every thing the season would yeild as well wild game as tame with all other sorts of rare meats fish of all kindes sweet-meats and fruits and in fine with each thing that was excellent and noble where the magnificence and punctuality of that generous and valorous Prince most abundantly appeared The Queen dined alone attended by the principal Cavaliers At the same time at another table with the Prince din'd the Embassador Pimentel Don Antonio della Cueva Count Montecuccoli my Lord Holstenius and others of the chiefest of her Majesties Court being exquisitly treated as were all the Officers and Gentlemen of her train Afer dinner the Queen retired a little while into her Chamber and presently after the Prince waited on her and after a short but very cordial Complement her Majesty began again her journey accompanied in the very same manner by the Prince and his train to the plain of Lidorno which is distant three miles where the said Prince alighting from his horse paid again his respects to the Queen and took his leave of her whose hand the Cavaliers and Gentlemen of Trent kissed all one by one she extending it courteously to them and declaring her self much obliged for the honours and civilities received of them So her Majesty continued her journey arriving that evening at Calliano where the Barons Troppi Lords of the place and Gentlemen of very high esteem made a most splendid feast and the Castle of Besen a little way distant from thence seated on a craggy mountain which renders it inexpugnable seconded it with discharging many Canon and Musquets She departed thence the following morning being the sixteenth of November and passing through Roveredo was saluted by that Castle with the noyse of the Artillery the Mortar-pieces and Musquets going thence to Hall a little town but full of traffique where she wrote to the
Prince of Trent the following letter Dear Cosen YOur civilities and the noble entertainment you gave me have obliged me in that manner that I would not let the Arch-Dukes men return without again thanking you for them and assuring you how much I desire the occasion to be able to acknowledge my gratitude to you and give you some testimony of the sincerity with which I am Dear Cosen Your most affectionate Cosen and Friend Christina From Hall the 17th of November 1655. The day after she passing through Borghetto came out of the Arch-Dukes dominions whose Officers and Train which alwayes had attended and defrayed her through that State took their leaves of her Majesty At the news of her Majesties advance towards the State of Venice the Counts Giovanni Battista Allegri and Marc Antonio Chiodo both Officers to take care for the health of the City of Verona and Gentlemen of great quality and eminent birth stood ready on the confines to know of Don Antonio Pimentel what company he had in his train to the end none but they might be suffered to passe since every thing was done in his name the Queen not desiring to be known nor to be met by any as 't was punctually observed Her Majesty next to Hall was to lye in the Village of Dolce above Chiusa whereupon by his Excellencies order Signior Paolo Contarini the then Captain of Verona and a Senatour of great quality her lodgings were prepared as well as the narrownesse and littlenesse of the incommodious place would permit for receiving so numerous a train where they wanted not any thing the season and occasion would afford the charge of the reception being committed to the Marquis Sagramoso Sagramosi and Count Giovanni Paolo Pompei principal Cavaliers of Verona well acquainted and versed in the businesse They went with a noble retinue of Gentlemen their Camrades with servants and coaches with six horses apiece to receive Pimentel aforesaid at the barrs of the passage which were ih the village of Peri and here they presented a letter from the Senatour Contareno to the Embassador Pimentel accompanying it with excuses and expressions of good will which are usually observed in occurrences of that nature The Embassadour accepted their relation with terms of much courtesie and affectionate thanks When they arrived at Dolce they did all they could to accomodate them in their lodgings where the treatment consisted of fish of the lake of Garda of wilde game shell-fish sweet meats and most excellent wines as well of that Countrey to wit Muskadine and Garganicho esteemed the best as of other Greek wines and others brought from Venice and was very splendid and agreeable to the Venetian greatnesse In Dolce the way was resolved on which her Majesty should hold through Ussulengo and the Island of Scala towards the Countrey of Mantoua On the eighteenth in the morning having passed the river Adige on a great bridge brought thither for the purpose she went to Ussulengo that evening being alwayes though under the colour of the Embassadour Pimentel served by Sagramoso and Pompei aforesaid with the same entertainments From Ussulengo at four houres in the night my Lord Holstenius sent back the Courier dispatcht to him before by the Legate of Ferrara and the Nuntii giving them advice of the way resolved on through the Countreys of Verona and Mantoua to come into that of Ferrara On the nineteenth in the morning the Queen went from thence and lay that night in the Island of Scala a place belonging to the territory of Verona where she had the same lodging and treatment In Ussulengo Madam de Cueva was surprized with a gentle feaver occasioned by a defluxion of rhume so as she and the Signior della Cueva her husband were forced to remain there some dayes but she was soon after well and they pursued their journey overtaking her Majesty at Loretto In the mean time the Marquis Andreasi a compleat Cavalier appeared and complemented personally her Majesty inviting her in the name of the Duke of Mantoua a little before returned from Casal to lodge in Reuere a place beyond the Po over against Ostia a Town of the territory of Mantoua which her Majesty accordingly accepted His Highnesse so informed by Couriers sent expresly to him gave order the lodgings should with all celerity be prepared calling together in all haste the Militia as well the foot as horse of the Mantouan state to attend her Majesty with the magnificence the place and the time would afford He then with her Highnesse his wife came to Revere whence he caused to advance to the confines of his Countrey all the troups of horse putting into Ponte Molino an ancient Castle where they passe from the Countrey of Verona into that of Mantoua a good guard of foot The day the Queen moved from the Island of Scala the Marquis Andreasi who after the ceremony of inviting her Majesty in Dolce as we said before was returned to Mantoua was sent by his Highnesse with a numerous and noble retinue to the confines to receive there her Majesty representing to her the Duke would be presently there to wait upon her nor omitted he to expresse his Highnesses discontent for her Majesties incommodity occasioned by the rain which falling then abundantly continued all the following day insomuch as the ways were very ill and the shew in the meeting was hindered extreamly since the Duke who had designed to appear a horseback accompanied by the Nobility which attended him very splendidly apparrelled was constrained by that accident to make use of his Coaches Sending therefore before him his guards of light Horsemen and Launciers in a very good livery all appointed for the service of her Majesty his Highnesse passed the Po with very many principal Cavaliers and went in his coach to Ponte Molino causing likewise to be led along with him the horses richly fadled and adorned with intention to use them in waiting on the Queen but the rain spoiled all his designes When the Duke had discovered her Majesties Coach he quickly alighted out of his to wait upon her whereupon she informed the Duke was in the company causing her Coach to be stopt in an instant leapt out of it hastily not regarding the rain nor the durt whom his Highness approaching did complement in a way as obsequious as sprightly and gracious The Queen received him as compleatly and entreated him often to be covered but he refused to do it seeming very much troubled her Majesty had incommoded her self to come out of her coach in that so soul weather to do him that honour who was with such devotion her servant Their complements ended the Duke went again into his coach and passed before to Ostia to expect the Queen and attend her passage o're the Po. When the Duke was gone her Highnesse the Arch-Dutchess arrived accompanied by many coaches and attended by great store of Ladies all
sumptuously adorned Her Highnesse alighted in a convenient place to pay her respects to the Queen who would use her Highnesse in the very same fashion she had done the Duke coming out of her Coach though in the durt and receiving her with a sweetness full of Majesty and the greatestaffability After their reciprocal Complements the Queen her into the Coach advanced to the Po whose banks on both sides were all beset as far as they could see with souldiers on foot and a horseback the harmony of Trumpets and Drums which were seconded with the noyse of the Canon and Musquets and because now the night did approach many fires were lighted along the banks of the river and divided into very fit spaces which made in the dark with their well ordered splendour the prospect delightfull to their great admiration and curiosity Here her Majesty passed the Po to the opposite bank of Revere on three ferry-boates joyned together which by reason the river was low served instead of a bridge three others remaining apart for the greater conveniency of their train The Port was illuminated with 24 great torches carried by 24 Pages of his Highnesse with very rich liveris In their alighting out of the coach and entering into the Port the Duke led the Queen who was carried from the banks to the water side in a sumptuous chaire being followed by the Arch-Dutches who leaned on the arme of the Embassador Pimentel In this manner all the Ladies passed over one after another as likewise the Cavaliers of the Court with the rest of both trains The town of Revere hath one long street among the rest extended along the Po with houses on both sides Through this which was beautified with lights the Queen was carried in her chair to the Palace of the Duke the 24 Pages aforesaid preceding with torches in their hands and a company of the Guard another company like that following the Arch-Dutchesse and the Ladies in the coach The Duke with his Cavaliers went through a shorter way to the Palace which besides being furnisht most richly was kept by the foot-guards of his Highnesse in their liveâ—y and adorned with a most noble and most beautifull row of Ladies who with the lustre of the jewells and gold with which they were docked augmented the splendour of the infinite number of lights which were burning every where Her Majesty alighted out of her chaire in the great hall of the Palace being led by the Duke who carried her to her lodgings Her Highnesse the Arch-Dutchesse followed her and the Ladies staying in the anti-chamber a little while after introducted to wait on her Majesty who received them all with her usual civility They returning into the anti-chamber her Majesty remained alone with the Duke and Arch-Dutchesse discoursing with them for some time His Highnesses Musitians being afterwards brought into that roome entertained them most nobly at the portalls rowled up with several songs now with one now more voyces intermingling divers harmonies of Instruments with which her Majesty was very highly pleased In the mean time they made ready the table in the same antichamber abounding with Nobility which fillâ—d too the great Hall that was perâ—it many Gentlemen of the neighbouring Cities besides the Cavaliers of the Countrey flocking thither in great numbers attracted not only by a laudable curiosity but out of their own inclination to wait on that Prince who with the atraction of his most sweet carriage commanded the obsequiousnesse of the most remote persons not onely of his neighbours Her Majesty sate at table under a cloath of state in perspective on a carpet raised four fingers from the ground and over against her the Duke and Arch-Dutchesse Don Antonio Pimentel though invited was not there he finding himself not very well The table was adorned so artificially that the eye was not satisfied with seeing nor the mind in admiring that natural beauty The quantity and delicacy of the meats shewed the greatest imaginable magnificence and generosity Yet all was observed without wonder for every one that knows what a mind that Prince hath which even in little things is still great to be answerable to the greatness of the house of Gonzaga admired it not at all Her Majesties Cupbearer was Count Luigi Canossa brother to the Marquis Horatio both Cavaliers of high quality of greatest esteem but this Cavalier had no great trouble given him in choosing the wines which there were very pretious and exquisite since this vertuous Princess was so temperate that she drank only two draughts of wine to drink to his Highnesses health she afterwards quenching her thirst with pure water The Musick continued as long as the supper and every thing was most pleasing to her Majesty who afterwards retired to her lodgings as the Princess and all the rest did On the following day which was the 21 when her Majesty had dined in the very same order and magnificence she passed again the Po and went into her Coach and the Arch-Dutchess with her who would wait upon her to the confines The Duke went a horseback with all his Cavaliers notwithstanding the ill weather the troops of the Mantouan horse and the Guards of his Highnesse preceding and following her Majesties Coach In this manner they marched very near to Melara where alighting after some courteous complements they dispersed themselves those Princes returning thence towards Mantoua and the Queen continuing her journey towards Figarolo The four Nunâ—ii with the Master of the Ceremonies and Don Innocentio Conti de Duchi de Poli a Roman Campmaster general of the souldiers of the Ecclesiastical state and Commander in Ferrara departed on the twentieth in the morning betimes with same troops of horse one of which of the Guard was commanded by the Marquis Carlo Theodoli a person of eminent quality with the Coach Litter and chaire which his Holinesse had sent for the meeting of her Majestie on the confines but by reason of the shortnesse of the time and the ill way they could only advance two miles farther than Calto where discovering her Majesties Coach they alighted and the Queen did the same when she was near to them The Nuntii here complemented her in the name of his Holiness and presented her the Brief which her Majesty with great reverence received kissing it and opened it in the open fields though it rained which was of the following tenor To our dearest Daughter in Christ Christina the illustrious Queen of Swedland Alexander the VIIth Pope OUr most dear Daughter in Christ Greeting and Apostolical benediction In what great expectation we are of your Majesties arrival our venerable Brothers Hannibal of Thebes and Luke of Ravenna Arch-Bishops and our beloved sons Mr. Inico Caraccioli Dean of the Apostolical Chamber and Philip Cesarini Clerk of the same our extraordinary Nuntii to your Majesty will evidently declare For in this excesse of joy we could scarce contain our selves that the interpreters
of it might be kept within the limit of the Churches Dominions and expresse at your entrance the summe of our gladnesse and great charity towards you But because we suppose you as sensible of this joy and content we doubt not but this intimation of our paternal love and earnest good will will likewise be most gratefull to you In the mean time 't is a sweet thing to us to think of the No small or light portion of the pleasure of that day when Rome shall receive you with the glad congratulations of all and you finde the true fountains of wisdom which you formerly have learned not from the doctrine of Christ But in the schoole of Philosophers amongst the foolish things of this world and the interdicted and ignoble and behold at the shrines of the Apostles the monuments of Princes and Kings the Disciples of the Crosse triumphing as it were 'ore the pride and pomp of the World For the rest so well are they descended whom we send to your Majesty and such praises have they purchased besides a noble family that it will be a hard thing for you to determine what you in each of them shall most like Now God whose Word the winds and the tempests obey be with you in your journy and confer on your Majesty the blessings wee most lovingly impart Given at Rome at Saint Maries the greater under the Ring of the Fisher the 24 of October 1655 in the first year of our Papacy Natalis Rondininus Going afterwards into his Holinesses Coach and the Nuntii following her with all the retinue she arrived at Fâ—garolo at half an houre in the night where after a little repose she was visited by the Nuntii whom she met in the midst of the roome and accompanied to the door Figarolo is a Town built scatteringly on the banks of the Po. 'ore against Stellata another place resembling it seated in an angle which is made by the river Panaro in discharging it self into the said Po. Every thing convenient for the lodging of so great a train could not be had in time for computing that the Queen by reason of the ill weather could not arrive there untill the 21 as Holstenius had written things were not observed with that punctuality and necessary sollicitude to which may be added that the river grown tempestuous with the wind suffered not to passe till the twentieth at evening certain Officers and goods designed for the lodging However the things were well ordered for though there were that night in that little place about eight hundred horse of her Majesties train and the souldiers of the Militia and albeit the great rains were a hindrance to every thing the well ordered commands of Don Innocentio Conti facilitated the endeavours of the Ministers subordinate to Baldocchi who had sent them thither from Ferrara he by his assiduous applications in this and that place more deserving still the name of an accurate and diligent Officer On the 22 of November her Majesty dined in Figarolo and afterwards taking coach advanced towards Ferrara which is fifteen miles off all along on the banks of the river Po which there are very strong as a fence against its dangerous inundations A great number of souldiers were distributed in all the wayes for Don Innocentio Conti a Gentleman of great valour and conduct having commanded five thousand foot and a thousand horse had divided them with that order on those banks that he made them seeme more numerous to the wonder of all My Lord Bâ—ssi a nobleman of Viterbo and a Prelate of great parts the Vice-Legate of Ferrara with a very great attendance of Gentlemen of Ferrara a horseback came near Figarolo to complement the Queen informing her the Cardinal Legate would presently be there to wait on her Majesty His Eminence issuing out of the City advanced to Occhiobello distant six miles to meet her with a very good train of Coaches with six horses apiece full of principal Cavaliers of that countrey His Eminence discovering the Queen 25 paces off who was alone in his Holinesses Coach alighted and met her The Queen causing her Coach to be stopt ten paces from the Cardinal did likewise alight and here began the Complement in which still her Majesty gave the title of Eminence Then the Queen went again into her Coach helpt thither by the Cardinal who likewise went into his own and followed her Majesty who had on a mans Hungerlin of plain black velvet with a band and an upper safegard for women of a dark grey colour without which she would have lookt like a man She arriving at the bridge of the black lake three miles distant from Ferrara a place much renowned for the Fort which built some years before by the Pope on the opposite bank was assaulted by the forces of Venice found built a very fine and commodious bridge designed by the admirable architecture of the Marquis Girolamo Ressetti Cavalier of Ferrara of very great spirit and eminent parts It was made of 46 great and thick barques with a floore so broad four coaches could go over it in a breast It reacht fâ—om one side to the other not simply from the brink of the water to the opposite part but from the bank it self on which it stood The construction of the bridge was most rare and the finest peradventure that hath been seen in Europe The Queen would needs go o're it though for her there was prepared a most splendid Bucintoro adorned with the Popes and her Majesties armes and another noble barque somwhat lesse When her Majesty was passed though the bridge was so full of Coaches horses and souldiers that it could hold no more yet it stood alwayes firme and very strong without the least disjoynting At the gate of the City her Majesty was met by the Marquis Francesso Calcagnini the chief Cavalier of the place and a person endued with extraordinary parts He was President of the Councel and afterwards with the Magistrates the Colledge of Doctors and his guard of halbardiers in the usual livery of the City and great strore of servants advanced to complement the Queen who received him with her accustomed affability When his complement was ended he waited on the Queen riding before her with his train among which were 24 Pages nobly born and clothed in plain black velvet designed for the attendance on her Majesty The City spared no cost nor application for Count Julius Caesar Nigrelli Embassadour in Rome for that Town a charge he had exercised with great praise and attention had in order thereunto advertised the Magistrates of his Holinesses minde At the first she was welcomed with six great Cannons with bullets all discharged at the same time and afterwards by the artillery from the walls with an infinite number of mortar-pieces intermingled All the gates streets and breast-works were manned with souldiers with lights in the streets and torches at the Palaces of the Cardinals the
things and even in his younger years followed worthily the glory of his Eminence the Cardinal his Brother who to the integrity of his exempalr life hath joyn'd the greatest prudence an exquisite knowledge of all things deserving the nobleness of his thoughts he shewing to all the highest generosity and courtesie But returning to what was observed at the table the bibbs were presented to the Queen and the Cardinalls Their Eminences were in their rotchets and forbare very strictly to touch any meat till they saw what her Majesty liked and had eaten first of it The first discourse began here by the Queen was of the Painters at Rome she concluding in favour of Peter di Cortona and Cavalier Bernino She then spake of the Musitians and seemed well informed of all the treble voyces or Eunuchs saying Bonaventura was the best at that time and that Cavalier Loreto of Spoleti had taught to sing handsomly continuing a while in the praises of musick and calling it the ornament of Princes and delight of the chambers At the first draught the Queen drank three great pieces of artillery were discharged She discoursed then of the Temples of Europe and said three were great to wit St. Peter in Rome St. Paul in London and the Dome in Millan but that St. Peters was the fairest and greatest adding likewise as it were with a sigh St. Pauls Church in London was now become a stable and here she discoursed awhile of the English affaires Then feeling it grew hot she caused the glasse of the windows to be opened from the top to the botome and the people which stood about the table retired then a little When her Majesty had drank the second time she said she had never drank so much wine as in Italy where it was very excellent The Cardinal Bishop replyed your Majesty hath drank little of it for you put much water to it and we see you carry with you the vertue of the North which the Queen was pleased with In fine new dishes of meat still appearing her Majesty praised Italy as having every thing within it selfe except druggs the Cardinal Legate replyed what sugars Her Majesty answered you have them in Sicily And with these and such like discourses which use to be the pastimes of great persons in their recreations at table and feasts the meat was taken off and the Queen in the midst of the two Cardinals aforesaid retyred to her chamber where their Eminences stayed with her entertaining themselves with several discourses Her Majesty in her speeches shewed a great esteem of France and to be well informed of all the affaires of the world and especially of the Court of Rome and of the last Conclave That night they saw a Comedy at the charge of the Marquis Cornelius Bentivoglio a Cavalier of one of the chiefest families in Italy and who may deservingly be called a true lover of the vertuous This play where the honours of Boreas with Orithia were represented succeeded very well especially for the admirable beauty and finenesse of the machins Her Majesty very worthily esteeming so conspicuous a family honoured with the title of Gentleman of her Chamber and her Cupbearer the Marquis Hippolitus aforesaid who together with the Marquis Cornelus his father waited afterwards upon her to Rome as Donna Constanza Sforza likewise did a Lady of rare parts and great quality and wife to the said Marquis Cornelius who instead of Madam Cueva who staid behind sick as we said supplyed with equal spirit and decorum the charge of chief Lady of the chamber to the Queen attending on her all the rest of the journey to Rome The remainder of the night was solemnized with variety of artificial fireworks all the demonstrations of gladnesse and rejoycing which could proceed from hearts ambitious of conforming themselves to the generous and noble inclination of their Prince While the Queen staid in Ferrara the Count St. Vitale came thither a Cavalier of great quality sent by the Duke of Parma with the title of extraordinary Embassador to complement her Majesty Ferrara is a great and spacious City adorned with splendid and beautiful structures and many piazze inhabited by divers great families and washt on the East and South side with a branch of the river Po. It lyes in a plain low and humid soyle and therefore the aire is supposed a little unwholsome 'T is fortified with strong walls bastions and well flankt with very large and deep ditches being guarded by a cittadel of great strength and very regular in some parts inaccessible to the approaches by reason of the marish scituation on one side The Castle the habitation of the Cardinal Legate is magnificent and sumptuous and was the royal residence of the Dukes of Este the splendour of Italy for the greatnesse of their minds and eminent valour The Cardinal John Baptist Spada a Noble man of Lucca a person of great worth and rare parts preferred for his long services to the holy Sea of Rome to the purple on the second of March 1654. with the title of holy Susanna performed this legation to his very great glory and in this conjuncture acted nobly and abundantly his part On the 25. her Majesty departed from Ferrara being saluted by the Canon from the walls and the fortresse as at her coming thither and they saw all the streets full of souldiers The two Cardinals the Legate and Bishop accompanied her Majesty to the confines of their Legation which end at the river Reno a little way off from the Villa of Poggio appertaining to the Marquis Lambertini an ancient and noble family of Bologna Here at the entrance into the territory of Bologna she was met by my Lord Ranuccio Ricci the Vice-Legate with the traine of many Gentlemen all on horseback who complemented her Majesty in the name of his Eminence Cardinal John Jerome Lomellino the Legate and returned to Bologna leaving the troop of horse that had accompanied him thither to wait on the Queen Her Majesty lay that night in the Villa of St. Benedict in the Palace of the Senatour the Marquis John Nicholas Tanara then President of the Justice and a person highly qualified her train with the four Nuntii being lodged in the Palaces and neighbouring houses where they were treated splendidly The day after she continued her journey toward Bologna whence the Cardinal Legate issuing forth with above 40 coaches with six horses a piece which were filled with the Nobility and three troups of Horse went to meet her at the Villa of Funo distant five miles all the wayes being lined with souldiers and a numerous concourse of people to see this great Princesse She arriving ten paces near his Eminence who allighting before expected her in the midst of the way came out of her coach and received very affably and courteously the complement the Cardinal made her His Eminence after this was constrained to go back with all speed to
went directly to the Palace of the Bishop her lodgings the Frontispice of which had abundance of Torches The Cardinall receiv'd and accompany'd her to her lodgings as all the chief Lady 's of the Countrey likewise did who stood in rankes at the bottome of the stairs The Furniture for the Chambers as well as the preparation for the Tables was sumptuous and rich for the naturall generosity of the Cardinall omitted not any thing becoming a regall entertainment Her Majestie supp'd in publick with the Cardinall the same order in sitting and ceremony at the table being observ'd as at Ferrara and Bologna Count Alexander Sassatelli was her Majesties Cupbearer and Signior Thadius Dalla Volpe her Sewer Besides a great number of Persons well qualify'd twelve Pages the sons of the chief Gentlemen of the City assisted at the table The figures adorning the table were so finely contriv'd and with such mysterious Hieroglyphicks that the Queen looking earnestly upon them nourish't more her mind than her body Cardinall Donghi was Clerke of the Chamber and had other vacant Offices on the track of which he had a large field to shew his great parts which with his deserts encreas'd by his intense applications towards the service of the Apostolicall Sea in the stirrs of the wars of Castro preferr'd him to the purple He is a Gentleman of great integrity and freeness which he vigorously shew'd in the Legations of Ferrara and Romagna administred by him with much praise and advantage to the good and exemplary punishment of the bad His mind is generous and free and his intellect capable of the mannagement of the greatest affairs On St. Andrews day after Masse the Queen went from Imola attended and accompany'd by the Cardinall aforesaid to the confines of the territory Faenza where she met with my Lord Castelli a horseback a Gentleman of much worth and Governour of the City accompany'd by many Gentlemen and two troopes of Horse As soone as he had ended his complement with the Queen he rode forward insomuch as the Queen continuing diligently her journey in those waies which are plaine and good some miles without the City was met by Cardinall Charles Rossetti the Bishop of the Place who with a fine livery of thirty groom's and a traine of many travailing Coaches full of Gentry alighting as the Queen likewise did made the usuall complement being received with equall kindness and courtesie Her Majesty approaching to the City saw the neighbouring plaine all cover'd with people flock't thither to behold this great Princess and with Souldiers in squadrons to honour her arrivall some Pieces of Artillery plac't on the Walls though slight and without rampards were discharg'd and their roaring was seconded by the noyse of the Drums Trumpets Mortar-pieces and Muskets All the streets of the City abounded with people in arms and gay ornaments hanging from the window's and balcone At her entrance into the gate she was reverenc't by the publick Magistrates who on horseback and with their robes of Velvet attended her Majesty to the Palace of the Bishop design'd for her lodging and very richly furnish't with a double guard of Souldiers The Queen alighting out of her Coach in which she came alone and receiv'd by the Cardinall who hastened before her ascended the staires of the Palace on the top of which she met the cheif Ladies of the City who after a short complement waited on her to the lodgings prepared for her with all splendour and magnificence While her Majesty reposed a little with very good order the quarters were assigned to all of her numerous traine by Gentlemen appointed for that function who contended to shew their punctuality She afterwards comming forth of her lodgings went thence to dinner very splendidly prepared with such admirable workmanship of Statues representing Rome the four parts of the world the wordly Monarchy and other carved things gilt and coloured so to the life that they onely wanted motion Her Majesty sate at the table with the Cardinall in the manner observed before The Marquis Francis Rosseti nephew to his Eminence gave the water for her Majesties hands and the Marquis Gâ—rolamo his Brorher presented the Napkin and was Cupbearer Count Laderchi and Cavalier Pasi both Knights of St. Stephen were Sewers receiving the meat from the hands of twelve Gentlemen that assisted at the table At dinner her Majesty had continuall discourse with the Cardinall which was mixed with such a Carriage and gravity that she swerving not at all from the State of a Queen shewed evidently how much she was pleased with his Eminences behaviour an Academy in the mean time being prepared to entertain her Majesty in the exercises which as more peculiar to her most refined understanding might with a more relishing change make her pass from the food of her body to the aliment of her minde In this Academy besides the cheif discourse made in praise of the Church of Rome by father Zenobi the Domcan a Person of great vertue and parts above 30. Compositions were to be recited by others as well Ecclesiasticall as Secular eminent in severall languages Latine Spanish Greeke low Dutch and Italian and amongst these one in musique the fruite of the invention of the said Marquis Francis Rossetti who with a rare phancy introducing musique silence and poesy to sing the Queenes glories was no less harmonious to the eare than delightfull to the intellect but it was not effected for instead of abiding there that night the Queen would continue her journey so as she rising from the table after a short stay in her Chamber went to visit the Cathedrall with a singular example of piety which thowgh it might well appear naked even in the fight of so great a Princess in being the designe of the famous Architect Bramante yet was all adorned with silke with such a rare mixture of colours that it cleerly shewed its joy in receiving within the compass of its walls whom the vastness of a Kingdome was not able to containe Faenza is an ancient and noble City fortified with walls and towers and seated in the middle of most fertile Plains famous for the art peculiar to it selfe of making most white and light vases of earth 'T is divided by the river Lamone which passing through the suburbs and the town leaves them afterwards united with a fair bridge of stone and two towers on the Emilian way The air is very healthfull the inhabitants industrious civil and lovers of their Countrey and the Gentry Courteous punctuall and very generous The Queen coming out of the Cathedrall went again into his Holinesses Coach carrying with her the Cardinall to the confines of that Territory towards which she advanced in pursuance of her journey about two houres before night having left imprinted in the minds of each one high conceits of her most excellent qualities The Queen seemed highly pleased with this Cardinall who had besides his learning and
the Queen leading her by the arme to her chair in which she was carried to the Palace his Eminence with the Nuntij aforesaid going before her in his Coach At the staires stood eight Pages with lighted torches and on the top at the entrance into the hall a very fair Company of the principall Ladies met and paid their respects to her Majesty who encompassing her did reverence and attend her to her lodgings whither the Cardinall conducted them who taking his leave she was left to her repose In the mean time the artificiall fire-workes began to Play in the Piazza which with admirable order was light all the night and the streets too abounded with lights The same evening the Gentlemen and Ladies had a ball in the Queens Chamber where the foresaid Counts Francis Maria and Lodowick Santinelli Brothers danced a galliard with the Lady Mary Camilla Disploratatii but because they danced with their Cloakes and their swords the Queen desir'd them for her greater satisfaction to lay them aside to the end she might the better observe them which accordingly they did danced a galliard which so pleased her Majesty that she seemed desirous to see them Dance the Canaries so as they with the Lady Emilia Vrbani performed it smoothly and with admirable grace Before they began the said ball the Cardinall Legate presented to the Queen to whom it was dedicated a Printed booke of severall verses composed by Count Francis Maria Santinelli the greatest part of which were in praise of her Majesty who was much taken with it and kindly accepted it commending it as the birth of a great spirit and eminent wit as it generally was held Her Majesty sup't afterwards privately in her Chamber where she heard most rare consorts of instruments among which was a violin and arch-lute which delighted her extreamly whereupon she received one of them into her service called Anthony Maria Ciacchi of Sienna The next Morning she went to the Monastery of St. Catharine heard Mass in that Church where she heard the rare Musique of those Nunns two of which are reputed very exquisite The went afterwards into the Monastery to the great consolation and extraordinary content of the Nuns who could not praise enough her Majestyes affability and courtesie That day she din'd in publick with the Cardinall sitting under a cloth of State in the same manner they had us'd in other places Count Francis Maria Santinelli was her Sewer of honour after the fashion of Germany as the Prince of St. Gregory had been in Ferrara and Count Bernardin Ubaldini her Cupbearer Count Hanibal Thiene presented her the napkin and Signior Francesco Maria Bonamini chang'd her plates After dinner her Majesty took pleasure in beholding a Spanish Ciaeona which was danc'd with a grace agility and incomparable dexterity by Count Lodowick Santinelli and she was likewise pleas'd to like certain Playes call'd the forces of Hercules perform'd by some persons most nimbly and handsomely Having afterwards been abroad to see some other Churches and Monasteryes of Nuns in her return to the Palace she was introduced to behold some Academical and Comicall representations the extravagancy and novelty of which pleas'd wonderfully the Genius and gust of her Majesty so as 't is no wonder this Princess said afterwards in publick at Rome that of all the great honours she receiv'd in the places where she pass'd none arriv'd to the excess of her satisfaction but those that were done her in Pesaro All the compositions were the fruits of the wit and the Pen of the foresaid Count Francesco Maria Santinelli a Cavalier as conspicuous for his ancient Nobility as esteem'd for the vivacity of his spirit and rare parts These actions were ended about seven hours in the night at what time her Majesty supp'd privately and went to her rest On the following morning the fifth of the month the Queen with her accustomed civility honoured the Nuns of St. Mary Magdalen with her presence hearing Mass in their Church and the excellent Musick they made her After dinner she departed to Sinigaglia attended by the Cardinall in Coach with the same traine of Coaches Gentlemen on horseback and guards of the Switzers the foot Souldiers standing within and without the City in squadrons and files and discharging from the walls many Canon Morter-pieces and Muskets as they had done at her Majesties entrance Pesaro is a noble City populous full of Traffick and abounding with Gentlemen of great worth and civility 'T is seated on the Sea in a chearfull Scituation and very pleasant Prospect all in a plain and for many miles severed from the Hills and the Mountains The walls are good with rampards and strong Bullwarks besides a fine rock built by Giouanni Sforza long since who at other times was Master of the Place The Port though decay'd is of use to little Boats carrying Merchandize to Venice and other parts This City was last of all possest by the noble Family of Rovere but it fayling in our dayes of male issue return'd to the Church as feudatory to it Here for 9. months in the year the Dukes us'd to dwell who had for that purpose built a Palace truly royall The Queen took the way of Fano on the Confines of which she found my Lord Bargellini of Bologna a Person of great worth and Governour of the City accompany'd by Signior Luigi Rixadducci and Count Hanibal Montevecchio the principal Gentlemen The other stay'd behind to waite on the Magistrates of which Signior Scipio Forastieri was chief and the Prior Alexander Castracani and Cavalier Peter Soldati To receive her with more honour a Gate wall'd up was open'd and beautify'd with severall Ornaments and among other things they saw under his Holynesses arms the following inscription D. T. V. His Holyness Alexander the seventh ruling P. O. M. Peter Bargellinus the Governour in the year 1655. that Chrâ—stina Queen of Swedland in her passage through the City might have a nobler entrance caus'd the Gate to be open'd for her Majesties reception Here she was receiv'd by the Magistrates accompany'd by a noble and numerous traine and attended to the Palace of the Governour where the Coaches standing round in the Court her Majesty not alighting rare sweet meats were presented her in many silver Basons of which she tasting some gave two Basons to Count Hanibal Thiene giving order the rest should be distributed among the Cavaliers that accompany'd her Fano is a little City encompass'd with strong walls partly antique and partly moderne towards the Seas with a Bulwark erected by Pope Julius the third in a plain Scituation on the shore famous for the Temple of Fortune who there was ador'd and for the remains of the Arch of Augustus Not far off runs the river Metaurus and there are yet the relicks of some memorable places for the accidents occurr'd in times past There Asdruball the brother of Hanibal of Carthage was kill'd and Totila King of the
Gothes overcome and wounded by Narsetes dying afterwards in the Mountains of Appenninus near the Fountains where the noble river Tyber hath its source This City abounds with a sprightly Nobility and very faire structures and here the two Countesses Martinozzi were borne neeces to his Eminence Cardinall Mazarine Ann and Mary the wife of his Highness Prince Armand of Conty of the royal blood of France and Laura marry'd to the Pâ—ince of Este eldest Son to the Duke of Modena The Family of Martâ—nozzi is ancient and noble having formerly been one of the four noble Families of Sienna renown'd in history as it hath likewise been for the space of 300. years esteem'd the principal in Fano 'T is evident in writings and publick inscriptions in marble seen by me that in the year 1364. Julius Martonozzi as chief of his Countrey accompany'd in the name of the publick to Rimini the Nephew of the Emperour of Constantinople as it likewise more particularly appears in the proofs of nobility made by Vincent Rinalducci of that City a Cavalier of Malta ally'd to the said Family of Martinozzi in the person of Laura sister to Count Vincent Martonozzi Grandfather on the Fathers side to the said Princesses and Grandmother to the said Cavalier The Queen leaving Fano and saluted by the Canon Mortar-pieces and Muskets and reverenâ— t by all the Militia continu'd her journey towards Sinigaglia where she arriv'd after the setting of the Sun in such rainy and windy weather that in hinder'd the volley's of Shot for her welcome to the City whose Gates Walls and Streets abounded with armes She went directly to the Palace of the Signior Bavieri the principal Gentlemen there prepar'd for her lodgings the traine being quarter'd in other neighbouring houses Here she was met by the Ladyes of the City among whom was a Neece of his Eminence Cardinall Chembini who being unable to wait on her Majestie by reason he was sick in Montalbotto his Countrey gave seasonable orders for accommodating that lodging Here besides the bonfires and lights which that evening were seen for her Majesties entertainment a ridiculous short Comedy was acted in her Chamber by the Count Francis Maria Santinelli and Lodowick his Brother which was order'd in one night by Count Francis Maria for the pleasure of her Majestie who seem'd desirous of it After the Comedy she likewise desired to see the agility of these two Cavaliers which they shewed in vaulting and their skilfulness in fencing insomuch that as vertue accompany'd with nobility not only disposes but forces the minds of great Personages to affection so this Princess with her generosity and refin'd understanding reflected on these Gentlemens qualityes and abilityes to serve her Having therefore had full information by the Cardinall of the antient nobility of their Family in which in each age they have had men of eminent valour as Count Sforza Santinelli Kt. of Michael under Charles the 8. King of France which was then the first order and Count Julius Caesar Santinelli great Prior of Mâ—ssiâ—a for the noble Knights of Malta she first by Holstenius and afterwards by the Ambassadour Pimentel desir'd them to serve her whereupon they glorying in the honour of her Majesties service shew'd a readines to obey her a little while after overtook her in her journey Sinigaglia is a City of small compass but fortify'd with strong Bulwarks ditches and breast-works on the side towards Fano having a chanel which divides it and serves for a haven to little barkes It hath likewise an old rock towards the Sea fortify'd with thick and strong Towers for its greater security The Queen departing hence in her Coach with the Cardinall Legate and attended by all the foresaid traine arriv'd at the Confines of the legation where she found Signior Giorgi of Fano master of the Camp of Pesaro with a very good body of foot in array who welcom'd her Majesty with a very faire volley of shot where she thank'd the said Legate for her noble entertainment declareing herself highly satisfy'd with him We may truly say this Cardinall is the Idea of valour and goodness it self He is of a joviall presence of a noble behaviour most courteous and sincere and justly reputed for his wisdom prudence and experience in business very capable of any great employment He is called by the title of St. Alexius was Clerke and Deane of the Chamber had many offices under Pope Urbane and in that of Commissary Generall of the Army in the Ecclesiasticall state gave great testimonie of his zeale and his valour In the Reign of Pope Innocent he exercis'd his qualityes with that vertue and freeness that compassing the ends of his great undertakings without suffering a sword to be drawne he deservedly was preferr'd to the purple oh the 19. of February 1652. This eminent dignity hath illustrated his Person but he with his candid behaviour hath very well answer'd its greatness In his Legation of Urbin he acted entirely the parts of a good Prince He every where hath scatter'd the treasures of his generosity and being Protector of the Church of St. Charles in the place call'd the Course hath been at great charge in beautifying and adorning it most splendidly Between the burnt houses and Flumicino the Confines of the marches with the state of Urbin they met with the Marquis Tassoni Governour of that Province a Cavalier of Ferrara of try'd valour who had with him many Officers of War and Gentlemen his friends richly cloth'd together with a troop of horse for his guard whose souldiers besides being very well arm'd mounted had Cassocks with four wings of fine blue cloath with four white Crosses hemm'd with Gold-lace Here likewise they found my Lord Francis Lucini of Millan the Governor of Ancona with a traine of many Gentlemen a horseback with sutable rich clothes Both the one and the other alighting with the Gentlemen their Camrades did their duties to the Queen Lucini was receiv'd into the Coach of the Nuntii and the Marquis rode before towards the City As the Queen pass'd along she was welcom'd by a body of four thousand foot set in array by the Marquis aforesaid with five troops of horse flancking them in a fine and martiall manner The rock of Flumicino saluted her Majestie with many tires of Mortar-pieces Captain Anthony Fasat with a troop of horse of the City of Ancona and Captain Magagnini with the troop of Jest preceding all the traine The Queen arriving at the Gate the artillery of the fortress and the walls of the City began to be discharg'd which continu'd till her Majestie was alighted at the Palace The Magistrates on horseback met her at the Gate and complemented her Majesty in their black Velvet Gowns with their foot cloaths of the same richly trimmed with Gold being follow'd by a traine of many Gentlemen on horseback with twelve Pages all Gentlemen of Ancona very finely adorn'd and 24. Groomes in the livery of
she was receiv'd at the gate by the Magistrates the chief of which was Signior Fulvius Magalotti and by the Colledge of the Doctors and Counsellors all very well apparrelled and attended with the principall Gentlemen of the City with Trumpets Drumms and many Souldiers standing in rankes in the streets which were hung with Tapistries though it was rainy weather Being arrived at the gate of the Cathedrall she was by my Lord Emilius Altieri the Bishop the Chapter and Clergie received with the accustomed Ceremonies and excellent musick she went afterwards to the Bishops Palace her lodging and after a little repose sent for the Musitians whose singing entertained her till supper time which was private All the streets and windowes abounded with bon-fires and lights but the weather being ill cold snowy and rainy her Majestie her self prohibited the discharging of the Canon In the Hall of the Palace were fifteen of the principall Ladyes Sigra Margherita Morelli complementing her Majestie in the name of all the others That evening Count Montecuccoli returned from Rome to her Majestie who as we said before had dispatch't him from Ferrara to the Pope In the Piazza was erected an Arch triumphall with two great Pillars over which appeared a rainbow The said Arch was adorn'd with various Figures and many Inscriptions and Mottos The Queen lay in Camerino with part of her train the rest going by the valley to Valcimarra to avoid that uneasie ascent On Sunday the 14. of December her Majestie arose before day and went to hear Mass then returning to her lodging and breakfasting she departed accompany'd and alwaies attended by my Lord the Governour and the Souldiers a horseback to the Confines 300. foot being reduc'd into squadrons at Muccia as she passed along The City of Camerino is seated on a hill in the midd'st of Appenninus being encompassed with old walls and almost wholly ruinous Towards the South it is guarded by an ancient rock the then Commander of which was Signior Giouanni Maria Benigni of that City in the roome of the Cavalier his Brother the Artillery of which was taken away by Pope Urbane the eighth of happy memory in the time of the War The Palace where the Governour and Treasurer reside is somewhat ancient but that of the Bishop modern and handsom This City in times past was govern'd perpetually by the Family of Varani and in the year 1518. erected into a Dutchy and given to Giouanni Maria Varani the last of this Family who left but one daughter call'd Julia borne of Catherine Cibo neice to Innocent the eighth and marryed to the Duke of Urbin who being master of it resigned it to the Apostolical Sea by exchange for Sin gaglia Afterwards another of the Family of Varani pretending to it by inheritance as included in the former Concession it was granted by Pope Paul the 3. to Pier Luigi Farnese his kinsman who was invested Duke of the Place and finally in the year 1344. changed it for the states of Parma and Piacenza My Lord Marazzani the Governour of Umbria coming from Perugia the place of his residence to those Confines appeared at Collefiorito accompanyed by a very noble traine of Cavaliers and attendance and complemented her Majesty who was saluted by 300. foot Souldiers and dined at the new houses where by the good order of Signior Baldocci she was royally entertained and arriv'd about an hour in the night at Foligno At the Gate of the City she was met by my Lord Cuccâ—ni Romano the Governour and the Magistrates who receiv'd and waited on her being accompany'd by twelve Pages very splendidly apparrell'd with lighted Torches in their hands appointed for her Majesties service She lay in the Palace of the Venturini but at the charges of the Apostolical Chamber and by order of my Lord Marazzani aforesaid Before the gate of the Palace was an Arch supported by four Pillars with severall Figures Mottos and Hieroglyphicks explained in intilligible inscriptions That City had prepared severall bon-fires and things of that kind to make their respects to her Majesty more splendidly appear the like too the said Cities of Macerata and Camerino had done but the very ill weather which continued still rainy hindered their effects The Queen at her entrance into the Hall was received by many Ladies one of which complemented her in the name of the rest all of them afterwards waiting on her Majesty to her lodgings where she courteously dismissed them The content and concourse of the neighbouring Cities was great and particularly of Perugia for having the conveniency of seeing so worthy and so vertuous a Queen where she supped betimes and privately Foligno is a City of little compass with old fashion walls being pleasant full of traffique and very much frequented especially in the times of the Fair which is very famous Here they see that renowned gate out of which the Citizens expelled the Lumbards 'T is chearfully seated in the plain of a valley which is one of the fruitfullest and best cultivated of any it bordering on both sides on hills abounding with olive trees vines fruites and habitations insomuch as it lookes like a beautifull scene Her Majesty determining to go see the City of Assisi to honour there the Temple of the seraphiâ—all Father Saint Francis on the 13th in the Morning after Mass departed from Foligno accompanied by the Governour aforesaid and all the attendance At Spello she was met by two troops of Launciers and two others of light horsemen and on the confines by Cardinall Paul Emilius Rondinino the Bishop of that City with severall Coaches full of Gentry and many Pages and Grooms in rich liveries of velvet where they met two other troops of horse one of Launciers and the other of Cuiraciers of the City of Assisi with others of the Province The said Cardinall alighting out of his Coach when her Majesty was in sight advanced towards her but she discovering him caused suddenly her litter to stop and alighting on a carpet brought thither and spread on the ground by the order of the Cardinall receiv'd his complement with signes of great esteem and affection His Eminence returning to his Coach another way advanced to the City to bee ready to receive her at the Church The Queen continued her journey being saluted from time to time by the Musketiers reduced into squadrons in the most conspicuous places and particularly at St. Mary of the Angells Thence approaching to the City where there were two other Companies like them she was receiv'd at the gate by Signior Granella Granella da Gualdo the Governour the Magistrates who complemented her She advanced to the Church of Saint Francis at her entrance into which the Cardinall and Clergy performing the accustomed ceremonies she past to the high Altar and having heard Mass which was solemnely Sung by my Lord Forreggiani one of the four Nuntij with exquisite Musique went into the
qualities of the Cardinall a Person abounding with the vertues sutable to an Ecclesiasticall magnanimous and accomplished Prince This Gentleman nephew to Cardinall Lodowick Zacchia of happy memory was born in Rome and finish't there his studies in humanity and philosophy in the Roman Colledg under the fortunate discipline of the Jesuits accomplishing those of the law in Perugia where he was in the mean time made Clerk of the Chamber by Pope Vrbane the eight When he had administred many offices of that Tribunall he likewise performed with Cardinall Raggi the charge of Treasurer in the place of Cardinall Rapaccioli who was Commissary of the Souldiers after which on the 12th of July 1643. he was preferred to the Purple with the title of Saint George and Pope Innocent the tenth conferred on him the Bishopprick of Assisi This City is seated on the side of the Mountain Asius which in a bending line by the side of a high hill derived from the said Mountain Asius extendeth it self a mile long from the East to the West lying wholly towards the South and though at the head and the shoulders 't is environned with Mountains not uneasy and rich in fruitfull Pastures it hath fertil hills at the slanke and finely arayed and a most pleasant plain at the feet which no less for it's greatness than fertility is one of the most beautifull and best parts of Jtaly Her Majesty returned to Foligno about three howres in the night being met by the Governour the Magistrates and part of her own train which staid there the night being resplendent with many fireworks and her Majesty Supping privately The Morning after the 14th of the month she went to the Dome at the gate of which she was received in the usuall forme by my Lord Montecatini the Bishop of that City That Church was very splendidly adorned where her Majesty heard Mass then visiting the said Church of the Nunns where she heard a little Musique she returned to the Palace and dined there in publique for their satisfaction who desired to see her at dinner The end of the Fifth Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Sixth Book The Argument FRom Foligno the Queen goes to Spoleto where she is royally treated by Cardinall Fachenetti She goes to Terni where she is waited on by my Lord Bonfiglioli the Governour of that City she passes to Gallese and is met by my Lord Visconte Governour of the Patrimony she advances to Caprarola where she receives the complements of the Spanish Ambassadour and thence goes to Bracciano and finally to Olgiata whither the Cardinall Legates a latere come to complement her Majestie conduct her to Rome where she makes her private entrance and is received by the Pope with all courtesie She makes her solemn entrance into Rome AFter dinner her Majesty departed from Foligno to the Confines being accompany'd by my Lord Marazzani and all his retinue and waited on to the gate by the Magistrates of the City and saluted by the Canon Mortar-pieces and Muskets the Souldiers standing in squadrons and rankes in severall places Then continuing her journey through that fruitfull Valley she dismissed on the Confines the Prelate aforesaid seeming very highly satisfyed with him And here she was met by my Lord Capecelatro a Neopolitan brother to the Duke of Sejano Governour of Spoleto who having with him a great traine of Gentlemen and two troops of horse complemented her Majesty Three miles without Spoleto Cardinall Caesar Fachenetti the Bishop of the City came out to meet the Queen accompanyed by my Lord Faustus Poli of Spleto the Bishop of Amelia the Governour of Orvieto the Prince of Gallicano and many Gentlemen The two Prelates aforesaid were there expresly to assist in this service the Cardinall The Prince came from Rome on the 11. in the evening on purpose to waite on her Majesty and being himself lodged in the Palace of the Bishop gave place to her Majesties traine and retiring into the house of a Gentleman his friend met with the opportunity of paying his respects to the Queen who received him very courteously having known long before his deserving and eminent qualities The Cardinall having complemented her Majesty returned into his Coach and went before to be ready to receive her in his Bishoprick who before she arrived at the gate found many thousand Souldiers in squadrons who saluted her with volleys of shot The Magistrates appearing with the Pompe peculiar to the sprightly inhabitants of Spoleto presented her Majesty with their humble respects at the gate of the City who caused the Coach to be stop't and kindly received them Diverse Arch triumphalls were erected in the streets which were all adorned with Figures Inscriptions and other sprightly Mottos Among all the foresaid Arches the remarkablest was that which was repaired o're an ancient gate of the City where besides the Inscription set there in honour of the Queen there was another alluding to the place where Haniball of Carthage after the battail won at Thrasymenus desiring to advance towards Rome was put to flight whereupon the same gate retains to this day the name of the gate of the flight The Queen passed through the Piazza reduced into the form of a Theater The circuite of the laterall Portici was enclosed with two great gates in each of which were Inscriptions Mottos fine Figures This Theater was made at the charge of the Gentlemen of the City incited by the generous example of the Cardinall who first of all contributed to the worke They did it supposing the Queen would have come thither by night the better to see the fireworkes which were plac't upon it and played the same evening On the great gates of the Theater were the Arms of the Queen with severall Mottos of the Kingdom of Swedland on the one side her Majesty and on the other the King her Father both on horseback The Queen being entered the Palace of the Bishop met a very noble company of Ladies who having had before of the Cardinall a splendid collation of sweet-meats were assembled together to wait on her Majesty At her entrance into the Hall they all kissed her hands and were received by her with the greatest affability her Majesty being pleased they should be present and sit at a musicall consort which was in her own Chamber and served for her Majesties entertainment that night The subject represented Faith triumphing which having sent three Persons to Sing the Queens Prayses appeared at last inviting her to enter into the little ship of St. Peter The Queen with some of her Domestiques lay in the Bishops Palace the Nuntij the Ambassadour Pimentel Count Montecuccoli and the other cheife Gentlemen being distributed in severall private houses in every one of which were Gentlemen of the City deputed to their service The direction of these lodgings was committed to the care of Signior Joseph
Besides diverse Gentlemen were distributed in the houses of the Marquisses Castelli and so from hand to hand all the rest of the meaner sort were orderly lodged after 3. hours in the night the Nuntii informed the Governour of the necessity of her Majesties dining on the following Friday in Otricoli a Town remote 15. miles and though the place was very incommodious and wanted all sorts of Provision the Governour sent presently thither eight loaded mules with Cooks Sewers Cup boord-keepers Butlers and all other necessary Servants who travailling all the night arrived there betimes in the morning to get all things ready that were needfull The Queen sup'd privately in Terni that night being attended by her owne Domesticks However the entertainment was regall and abounded with exquisite meats The table was deck'd with severall statues and triumphs which shew'd in the beauty of the work and designe the excellency of the Roman spirit and gust The Souldiers stood in rankes all along and gave her frequent volleys with their muskets and mortal-pieces all the City being resplendent with the bon-fires and lights This City is little but handsome The circuit of which is not modern The Territory is narrow but fruitfull by reason of the goodness of the soyle and abundance of waters and being exposed to the south produces store of fruit and excellent fowle The medows are curthrice and four times a year and afterwards serve for Pasture Here are seen many Inscriptions in marble which shew it was a free City of the Romans and retains still some remains of the septentrional Nations Cardinal Rapaccioli is Bishop of the place Who though confin'd Rome by his indisposition was not wanting though far off to demonstrate large heart his great spirit and natural generosity in the fruits of his happy invention and expressions of obsequious respects to her Majesty The Queen departed from Terni on the 17. in the morning attended by my Lord Bonfiglioli with some Souldiers and the traine of the Gentlemen But he went before to provide all things fitting at Otricoli so as because the straightness of the place was not capable of so great a retinue he with an ingenious shift caused the people to dine quickly by course as they came and sent them immediately away to make roome for the rest and avoid confusion About twenty hours her Majesty arrived being received by the said Prelate and many Souldiers who standing in their rankes gave her volleys of shot her Majestie alighting at the Inne the narrowness of which place afforded not that plenty and delicacie of meats a noble entertainment required Otricoli at this time is a little Borough compos'd of severall houses built together on a Mountain a little above a mile distant from Tybur which flowing from those Mountains dilates it self afterwards here in a spatious and open Countrey After dinner her Majesty remov'd from Otricoli and descending into the plain still keeping along the river at six miles end arrived at a bridge call'd Filice o're which she passing the Tybur came to a little Town nam'd Borghetto appertaining to the Dutchy of Ronciglione Here my Lord Bonfiglioli took his leave and my Lord Vitellianus Viscont the Governour of Patrimony met her Majestie accompanied by a noble troop of Gentlemen and many Souldiers a foot and on horseback reduced into squadrons who when he had complemented her Majesty advanced to the foresaid bridge Filice to receive her afterwards at Bracciano a Town appointed for her lodging that night Collonel Tofano the Governour of the arms of Patrimony ranking the Souldiers in the places he thought fittest for a nobler reception Part of the Court remained in Borghetto where they were very orderly and commodiously treated From the walls and the Castle of this place she was welcom'd with many volleys of shot and some mortar-pieces The said bridge Filice is very finely built large and long in order to the breadth of the Tybur being made by Pope Sixtus the fifth who from his first name call'd it Filice The Queen arriv'd late at Gallese and alighted at the beautifull Palace of the Duke of Altemps the Lord of that Town who royally received her The Frontispiece was resplendent with lights as likewise all the streets where the Souldiers stood in rankes and welcom'd her with volleys of shot which were seconded with many mortar-pieces Her Majesty sup'd privately yet was seen and admir'd by diverse Persons of quality who came from Rome thither to satisfie their impatient curiosity where her Majesty was served as nobly as in any other place Gallese is encompassed with old walls and on the one side built on high where there is a deep ditch with a rock on the other side likewise walld and great Towers and Ditches The Tybur runs near it some two miles onely distant where there is a Port to carry Goods and Victualls to Rome This City by Pope Sixtus the fifth was erected into a Dutchy where there formerly was a Bishop but now 't is united to Civita Castellana The next morning after Mass she went to Caprarola appointed for her lodging on the 18. of December where she was received in the sumptuous Palace of the Duke of Parma the pleasure and curiosity of all being wonderfully entertained as well with the strange architecture of the famous Vignola as the Pictures and rich Furniture In the Piazza before the Palace was erected on a great pedestall a high arch supported by eight Pillars which rested on another pedestall somewhat less than the first In the middle was a great statue with a bundle of ears of Corne in its hand the arms of her Majesty and on the other side a crowned Lyon under whom were diverse Mottos and Inscriptions in Italian verses but nothing succeeded very well the continuall raine which fell in great abundance all that day and that night interrupting many other demonstrations of honour and joy which were prepared there The Duke of Terranuova the Embassadour in ordinary in Rome for his Catholick Majesty came hither expresly to wait on her Majesty who received him with her usuall affability and kindness after which he taking his leave return'd the next morning to Rome Her Majesty sup'd privately being attended by her Domestick Cavaliers but exquisitely well treated my Lord Visconte using all diligence and means peculiar to his singular ability The foresaid Count Santinelli arrived here who received by her Majesty with her usuall kindness and courtesie were declared Gentlemen of her Chamber Caprarola is an open Town well built and handsome at the head of which is the Palace of the Duke of Parma in an eminent Scituation of admirable architecture and beauty It hath five fronts and yet all the Chambers are compleatly square of which there is one very great and contrived in that manner that one standing in one of the four corners hears what another speaks in all the other though he speak very softly
'T is enricht with delicious Gardens and noble Fountains and in fine is as sumptuous as any whatsoever in Italy The same day her Majesty departed from Caprarola accompany'd and attended by all the retinue Don Parlo Giord ino Orsino the Duke of Bracciano and the Dutchess his wife with 4. Coaches with six horses apiece full of Gentry and 200. Cuirassiers came to wait on her Majesty as they had done at Oriolo a Town appertaining to their jurisdiction and after their complement advanced towards Bracciano to be ready to attend her in that beautifull Palace The Queen at her arrivall found the Souldiers in their rankes who welcom'd her with volleys of shot as she likewise was saluted with some pieces of Canon and severall mortar-pieces A little way off from the City were 18. Archers and 18. Dutch men of the Dukes guard which accompany'd her Majesty to the Castle and alwaies attended her At the Gate of the Palace the nobleness of which was augmented with the riches of the most sumptuous Furniture stood the Duke who cover'd lead her Majestie as she walked Her Majestie was entertained that evening with a very gratefull harmony of Musitians with which she was extreamly delighted as being very pleasing to her Genius She sup'd afterwards in private and retired The morning after as she went from her lodgings to the Chapell to hear Mass she was lead by the Duke and afterwards carryed in the Dutchesses chair to the Piazza where her Majesty taking Coach went directly to Casale in Polzetta called Olgiata a Vâ—lla of Signior Filippo Franceschi a Florentine where her Majesty was to dine Bracciano is encompassed with Ditches Walls and Bulwarks the greatest part of wich were made by Bartholmew d' Alviano when the City opposed the Army of Alexander the .6 commanded by Duke Valentino The fortress bearing the name of the Castle of St. James hath regular Fortifications but is of an old forme being furnisht with all necessary artillery and arms with a Garrison of Dutch men two royal Appartaments Gardens and other delights The Scituation is pleasant on a Hill and the Castle stands on a flinty Cliffe which is hard to be mined On the one side 't is washt with the lake Sebeto on the bankes of which there are other Towns of the Dutchy aforesaid The Duke and the Dutchess by the way of Anguillara advanc't before the Queen a quarter of a mile from Olgiata where alighting they gain paid their respect to the Queen who causing her coach to be stopt received their complement and seeming to be highly pleased with it told the Duke they should meet again at Rome His Holiness on the 29. of November declared in the Consistory two Legates a latere to meet and receive her Majesty who were the Cardinall John Charles de Medici Brother to the great Duke of Toscany and the Cardinal of Hessen who to the royall splendour of their births have joyned great and eminent qualities in the lustre of their purple representing the endowments which Heaven hath so liberally given them They were both appointed for that function with his Holinesses Brief of the following tenor Alexander the 7. Pope Beloved Sons greeting and Apostolical benediction Since the day is near that that our beloved daughter in Christ Christina Queen of Swedland by the blessing of God is approaching to Rome we out of the singular affection of our fatherly love charity to the said Queen Christina desiring she may be received with greater solemnity do with the mature deliberation of our venerable brothers the Cardinalls of the holy Roman Church and by their Counsell and consent with our Apostolicall authority by vertue of these presents make constitute and depute you whom the splendour of your Families and the approved qualities of your minds in diverse sorts adorn our Legates de latere and of the Apostolicall Sea to go meet the said Queen Christina any thing to the contrary notwithstanding Given at Rome at Saint Peters vnder the ring of the fisher the 29th of November 1655. in the first year of our Papacy The endorsement was To our beloved Sonnes c. When the Legates had advice the Queen was arrived at Bracciano and would be at Olgiata on the 19th of December they hastened their departure from Rome to execute their office whereupon at the Palace of the Medici in the Piazza Madama all the train of both the Legates being assembled together the Cardinall of Toscani gave them so splendid a collation and abounding with such exquisite meats that it might have been compared to a sumptuous and royall dinner He kep't open house and profusely distributed bread wine flesh and sweet meats to all that were there though they were not of the train After that the Civalcata of the Legates advanced which for the great quality and condition of the Persons there present and the rich cloathes and liveries with which they appear'd was extreamly remarkable and commendable It reached from the Palace of the Medici aforesaid 200. paces without the gate of the people where they leaving their horses took Coach Three trumpets and a tabour preceded with the led horses of Captain Corradino at the head of a hundred Cuirassiers well mounted and armed with his sword in his hand Five trumpets followed after and a tabour of the Cardinall Landgrave with Cassocks of Scarlet fringed with thick broad lists of azure velvet border'd on both sides with rich trimming of silver which in that mixture of the red and skie colour made the shew very handsome especially by the waving of the thick plumes on their heads which enriched their haire and their shoulders After these came the trumpets of the Cardinall de Medici who had likewise Cassocks of fine cloth of Cinnamon colour all trimmed with thick twists of gold which about twilight cast a mervellous lustre The eyes of the spectators were greatly allured with the appearance of a numerous and noble Company of Pages on high metalled coursers trapped with rich furniture of gold and silver and sutable valizes The pages besides their cloths trimmed all over with gold had either their doublets of cloth of gold or embroyder'd with rich branched work Four trumpets of his Holiness followed after with red Casocks listed with gold and about seventy Knights of the train of the Cardinall Legates who with their sumptuous cloaths and noble aspects gave lustre to all the retinue Among these were confusedly mingled without any order of precedence the Dukes Salviati Lanti and Mattei the Marquisses Nari Corsini Tarquinius Santa Croce and Patricii The Lords Paul Francis Falconteri Baron Mattei the Counts Prainer Slavata Sciaffcutz and Tilli and Cavalier Passionei these particular camerads of the Cardinall Legates with many servants richly apparrelled Near these on two generous steeds came the Legates with their usuall Cardinalls habits of Purple waved tabby and red hats on their heads who gracefull and most affable with a seriousness and sweetness in their faces made their Majestique
appeared the Majesty and decorum of the Court of Rome The light horsemen of his Holinesses guard arm'd with breast-plates and having red Casocks trimed with gold twist and lances in their hands with colours at the points shut up the Cavalcata Behind the horses which shut up this royall Cavalcata came the travailing Coaches and the Coaches of the City of all the great Persons which were all noble sumptuous and enricht with rare furniture and most sprightly Coursers After her Majesties Coaches came three of Prince Panfilio which were very splendid and one among the rest as noble and Majestique as could be devised it being all of gold and embroydery with admirable metals and the armes of his family Two likewise appeared of the Prince of Pallestrina one of which was rich and stately of black velvet with golden fringe and lin'd with cloth of gold the Carvings Figures Nayle-work Iron-work and furniture of the horses being gilt most splendid and magnificent The gate of the people by order of the Pope was finisht before by Cavalier Bernino on the ancient design of Michael Angelo Bonaruota with some embellishments of the said Cavaliers own invention and an Inscription representing the happy and fortunate entrance of this Queen into Rome on the top of the gate aforesaid they saw appear in a great embossed work six Mountains and a starre on the top the Armes of his Holiness At all the ends of the streets of the course St. Mark Giesu della Valle Mount Jordan di Banchi the bridg of St. Angelo and the Suburbe through which the Cavalcata was to pass stood Souldiers in rankes and all Coaches were forbidden to stirre up and down and stand in those streets after 18. houres All the windows were hung with rich tapestries and full of Ladies and Cavaliers all the way being covered with a very great number of people At her Majesties entrance through the gate of the People she was welcomed by many Mortar-peices and Canon brought into the Garden of that convent the roaring of which was answered by all with an Echo of Prayses and blessings As she passed through so many peopl who were more desirous to see her than curious to contemplate the pompe of the Cavalcata she saluted every one with so cheerfull a countenance and a carriage so tempered with decorum and courtesy that she made it appear she could not stirre a foot but 't was measured with the compass of her vertue She often turn'd her self to speak with their Eminences Orsini and Costaguti and all her words breathed a gravity and sweetness As her Majesty pass'd the bridge of St. Angelo Count Jerome Gabrielli the Vice Governour of the Castle stood at the door of the grate of the fortress at the head of a hundred Musquetiers in array who took up all the drawbridges to the gate of the Castle Captain Decius Laurentini arm'd with a corselet and pike standing a little behind him towards the left hand and on the right Captain Rutilius Ferraccioli the Adjutant of the Fortress The Souldiers of the Garrison displayed their colours from the walls and as the Queen passed along she heard first from the Castle a pleasing harmony of fifes and Sackbuts which was afterwards seconded by a volley of Muskets accompanied immediately by the roaring of a hundred and fifty Mortar-peices and sixty peices of artillery On the top of the great Tower hung the arms of his Holiness and the Queen where likewise were prepared many squibs and great store of fireworkes which in the beginning of the night had admirable success the Mottos and Arms being handsomly seen and illuminated On the Piazza of St. Peter on this and that side of the Guglia two battalions of a thousand foot apeice stood in rankes with two other squadrons of cuirassiers 'Ore against the same Piazza near the fountain was squadroned the free Company of Dutchmen of Count Vidman aforesaid in the midst of two squadrons of Carabines The said Count Vidman was likewise a horseback with severall his Camerades at the head of the said Souldiers by whose good order and experienced understanding every thing was regular This Cavalier was assisted by Sergeant Major Molinati Captain Corradino and Grassi Count Baschi Buonfanti Captain Alphonsus Bartoi with the Militia of Frascati Castell Gandolfo and Rocca Priora Captain Anthony Torazzi with the Souldiers of Velletri and others commanders of that people who the Queen being alighted at the staires of St. Peter gave their last volley of shot which was seconded by twelve peices of Artillery brought to the said Piazza The end of the Sixth Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Seventh Book The Argument THe Queen after the Cavalcata is received in St. Peters Church by that Clergy and afterwards in the Consistory by the Pope She visits the Church of St. Mary the greater She dines with the Pope From the Vatican she goes to the Palace Farnese and is there visited by the sacred Colledg and the Grandees of the City She visits the Churches of Saint Iohn Lateran St. James of the Spaniards Giesu and the Monasteries di Torre de Specchi and St. Sixtus she sees the Castle of St. Angelo la Sapienza the Monastery of St. Catharine of Siena the Greeks Church the Roman Colledg and that of Urban for the propagation of the Faith She is present at Academies and entertained with severall Musicall Comedies THE Queen come to St. Peters while the Cardinalls were dismoâ—nted before to goe and assist the Pope in the publique Consistory did likewise alight and their Eminences Orsini and Costaguti committed her to the Cardinalls Medici and Sforza they themselves going thence as the first Deacons to vest and serve his Holiness Being ascended the first steps and come through all that space to the last which arrive at the Portico of the Church she saw on the last step my Lord Scanarola the Bishop of Sidoma Vâ—car to his Eminence Cardinall Barberino the Arch Priest of St. Peter together with all the Chapter of the said Church which stood attending her The said Scanarola presented her the Cross to be kiss'd and she kissed it kneeling on a cushion of cloth of gold vnder which was spread a great carpet of the same In the mean time while a great quire of Musitians Sang the Anthem she is beautifull c. The Queen entred into the Church in the midst of the said Cardinalls Medici and Sforza The said Bishop gave her holy water and by all the quires of the Musitians was begun the hymne of Te Deum This sumptuous Temple was all hung with tapistries out of the wardrobe of Cardinall Barberino among which were fifty eight hangings for doores very splendidly embroydered with gold with the Armes of her Majesty in the middle ten of which were embellished with severall Mottos alluding to the glories of this renowned Princess So being preceded by the Clergy with the
of Christianity may best of all others give a happy long and fit entertainment to her Majesties glorious fortunes FINIS The life and qualities of Gustavus Adolphus of Swedland His stature The Turk was jealous of his fortune His remarkable sayings His Conquests With what Army he pass'd the Sea Christina his only daughter succeeds in the Kingdom The education of this Princesse Her wonderfull wit On whom the Government of the Kingdom depended on her minority She learnt diverse tongues She makes great Progresse in learning She begins to assist at the Council of State and afterwards takes the Government upon her She administers her self the greatest affairs She makes her self belov'd and fear'd She contemns all delicacy She makes war and then peace with Denmark to her advantage She is honour'd by all the Princes of the world Heavens is propitious to her The reasons which give motives to the true knowledge Important observations Her own vertue makes her see the truth She examines the life and conditions of Martin Luther She perceives the falsities and untruths spread by him She fortifies them with some important examples She detests heresie She resolves to turn Catholique She sends a Jesuit to Rome In her letter to the Father General of the Society She desires two Fathers of the Society may be sent to her The Father Generall receives her letters very gladly He sends two Fathers into Swedland Their journey Their arrivall They are courteously receiv'd She treats secretly with them and determines to inform the Pope of her resolution Don Antonio Pimentel is in Swedland for his Catholique Majesty The Queen imparts to him her thoughts And resolves to rely on the Catholique King Father Malines the Jesuit is dispatcht to the Court of Spain for that effect Father Guemes a Dominican arrives in Swedland and her Majesty makes use of him She informs him of the business and sends him into Spain Her negotiations The King of Spains sense of the news The King of Spain's perplexity With great piety he undertakes the business and writes to the Pope The States of Swedland make instance to the Queen Her Majesties answer Charles Gstavus Palatine is declared and substituted in the Kingdom after the death of the Queen She trusts wholly in God She resolves to forgoe her Kingdoms She is disswaded but without effect The renouncing follows The ceremonies of this action A generous act of her Majesty She gives some advertisements to the King her Successour The Prince Palatine is anointed King of Swedland The Queens return to Stockholm and her departure She makes them believe she will go into the Island of Holland The affliction of the people for her departure Her Majesties journey She visits the Queen her Mother She gives out she will change her journey She dimisses divâ—rse of the Court. She puts on mans cloaths to pass unknown She passes the straight of the Sound She comes to Hambourg She speaks with the Prince of Holsteria and concludes the marriage of his daughter with the King of Sweden She is Visited in Hambourg by diverse Princes of Germany She is feasted abroad by the Landgrace of Hessen She departs on the suddaine from Hambourg Differences between the Crown of Swedland and the City of Bremen Her Majesties journey from Hambourg to Antwerp She is known in Munster She arrives in Antwerp The applauses with which she is seen in that City The Arch-Duke sends to complement her The Prince of Condes pretences not admited He visits the Queen as a private Gentlemen Many Iricys and great Lods come to â—isit the Queen The Emperour sends Earle Montecucoli to complement her Majesty She goes conceal'd to Bruxells The King of Spaine sends Don Antony Pimentel extraordinary Ambassadour to the Queen The Aâ—ch-Duke returns to Antwerp to invite the Queen to Bruxells Her Majesties entrance into Bruxells The rejoycings with which she is publickly received in Bruxells She makes secretly profession of the Catholick faith She eats in publick She is alwaeis inclin'd to Noble and worthy entertainments The Queen her Mother dies The death of Pope Innocent Cardinall Chigi is assum'd to the Papacy With the applause of all Christianity The Queen gives an account to the Pope of her desire to come to Rome Letters from the King of Spaine to his Holiness Presents made by her Majestie to the Arch-Duke in Flanders and others Her departure from Bruxells The quality of her Majesties Traine The persons of quality that accompanied the Queen Her reception in Ruremond She passes through Cullen The continuation of her journey She is visited by the King of Scotland And by the Elector Palatine Afterwards by Prince Robert She goes from Steinhaim She arrives in Rotemburg She comes to Nordlinguen To Donavert Earle Montecuccoli returnes dispatcht again to the Queen from the Emperour The Queens letter to the Arch-Duke of Inspruch She goes privately to Auspurge to see the most remarkable things The Queen is met by the Officers of the Elector of Bavaria She is treated sumptuously in Landsperg She enters Tyrole The Arch-Dukes of Inspruch go to visit the Queen privately in Seefelt Her Majesties entrance into Inspruch The honours done her by their Highnesses the Arch-Dukes His Holinesse resolves to dispatch to Inspruch my Lord Luke Holstenius He elects four Nuntii to receive the Queen on the Confines of the State Ecclesiastical Breifes consignâ—d to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines the Jusuit goes with the said Holstenius to Inspruch The Breife to his Eminence Lomellino Cardinall Legate of Bologna My Lord Holstenius arrives at Mantoua The Popes Breifâ— to the Prince of Trent The Breife to the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand My Lord Holstenius is received by the Arch-Duke with much Courtesie The honours done to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines is sent to discover the will of the Queen The Popes Breife to the Arch-Dutchness of Inspruch My Lord Holstenius visits the Baron Ghirardi The expressions of the said Baron My Lord Holsténius visits the Ambassador Pimentel He imparts to him his Holinesses intention And he to the Queen who submits to the Popes pleasure My Lord Holstenius hath audience of her Majestie Her Majestie discourse with my Lord Holstenius His Holineses Breif to the Queen The Queen dines publickly with their Highnâ—sses the Arch-Dukes Her Majesty visits the Palace of Ambre She goes into the Church publickly The Order of the Church for performing the function of the Catholick profession The contents of the Popes Brief to my Lord Holstenius The Act of the Catholick Profession made by the Queen The Queens great generosity The absolution given to the Queen by my Lord Holstenius The joy for this profession The Recreations and plays recited before her Majestie The forme of the subscription of the act of profession Her Majesties departure from Inspruch The Arch-Duke sends a Gentleman to visit the Queen Her Majesty returnes the Arch-Dukes Complement The honors done her Majesty by the Bishop of Bressanon The Baron of Fermiano comes to
which is a noble Palace or Lyceum design'd for publick studies She was met at the Gate and attended by Cardinall Rapaccioli the Vice-Chamberlain in the place of Cardinall Anthony Barberino who as Chamberlain is the head of that University being accompany'd by my Lord Richi Auditor di Rota as Lieutenant of the Cardinall Chamberlain and all the Advocates of the Consistory The great Hall and the less the antecedent were very richly furnish't o're the door of the first stood her Majesties picture at length and in the said Hall was erected a cloth of state in the midst of which sate the Queen and the Cardinall on her left hand The Advocates stood on one side and at the bottom of the royall seat all the Professors in a ring and the Bedells with maces of Silver in their hands On the right hand was prepared a chair for the Professors whom her Majesty would hear speak First she desired to hear a Divine which place was performed by Doctor Peter Maria Passarino of Modena Procurator General of the Order of St Dominique who made his rare parts and deep learning appear after whom a Phisitian was desired by her Majesty so as Signior Giouanni Benedetto Sinibaldi most learnedly and to his great praise discharged his part Then Signior Henrico Chifellio a Humanist was call'd who though a long time blind shew'd he hâd seen much in the knowledge of Humanity Her Majesty seem'd afterwards desirous to hear a Philosopher and Dr. John Baptist di Lezana a Carmelite was not wanting to give laudable testimonies of his knowledge whom Signior Giacomo Cincio a Canonist succeeded who rarely performed his part and gave the Queen great satisfaction The Mathematician Don Antonio Santini did the like who in his demonstration on paper came down from the chair to satisfie her Majesties curiosity who desired to see it nearer her The Queen was askt afterwards if she pleased to hear the Professors of tongues and she seeming content severall of them went into the chaire one after the other fully satisfying the genius of her Majesty The first was Signior Giouanni Battista Giona Galileo who in the Hebrew tongue explained a passage in Genesis the second Signior Gulielmo Artio who discoursed in Greeke of Philosophy the third Signior Abramo Ecchlensio who in the Syriaqâ—é tongue displayed some points relating to the knowledge of it and the fourth Don Philippo Guaâ—agnolo who in the Arabick and Chaldean tongue disputed against some points of the Alcoran of Mahomet This royall entertainment being ended the Advocates of the Consistory presented her Majesty in a hundred and twelve volumes the works in print of the Professors of that study as well of those now living as the others lately dead which volumes were all bound richly in Gold with the Arms of her Majesty she had too a Catalogue in print of the works aforesaid with an elogie composed by Count Charles Emanuel Vizzani one of the Advocates of the Consistory and a person of great fame Thus ended the visit with extraordinary satisfaction to her Majesty for the nourishment which with her rare understanding she had found in the qualities of such eminent Persons this Princess being likewise astonisht as well at the various and solid literature and learning as the other great parts which with her refined judgement she discovered in the said Cardinall Rapaccioli Her Majesty had likewise a desire to see the noble Monasterie of the Nuns of St. Catharine of Sienna of the order of St. Dominick seated on the Mountain Magnanapoli in which they receive only Ladies of great quality At the Gate of the said Monasterie she was received by the Prioress sister Emilia Cenci with other Nuns which stood in rankes on both sides with the Queen went in the Father Generall of the Dominicans of the Family of the Marquisses Marini of Genova a person much esteem'd for the nobleness of his birth his good life and great learning Father Guemes her Majesties Confessor the Arch-Bishop Forregiani and four others of the most eminent Fathers of the Order of St. Dominique She went presently into the Quire where she was welcomed with a consort of severall musical instruments and heard with much pleasure a Moletto sung most exquisitely From thence she was conducted under a Canopie to the Hall where two tables were furnisht with a noble collation Here staying a little she afterwards went up into the Tower from which she discovering not only all Rome but much of the Countrey there abouts was so pleased with the prospect that she staid there two hours with great satisfaction coming afterwards down into the Church and hearing there Mass she return'd from thence to her Palace whither the Nuns sent her Majesty many pretty devises with a little Cofer of Carnation sattin embroydered with Gold in which was a relique of St. Catharine and another of San Romano with a relique of St. Nicholas da Bari in christall and six viols of Manna of the said Saint all embroydered with Silver with severall flowers of ambre and silke which her Majesty most kindly accepted as a testimony of the generous respect of those Ladies towards her person She was pleased too to visit the Convent of the Nuns of St. Sixtus of the most noble order of St. Dominick seated in Quirinale on the Mountain Magnanapoli for nobleness and beauty equall to the other there contiguous of St. Catharine of Sienna of the same order Her Majestie went in accompany'd by my Lord Forregiani the Father Generall the Father Procurator and her Majesties Confessour all Dominicans The Prioress sister Raimonda Colonna assisted by the rest of the Nuns received her at the Gate and waited on her throughout all the Monastery and Garden the fineness and neatness of which buildings together with the beauty of the seat pleased highly her Majesty who had there a noble Collation On the 16. of January her Majesty going into the Coach which his Holiness gave her accompanyed by the Princes Prelates and other Cavaliers went to the Greeks Church which was adorned with very rich Hangings especially the Cloyster called Sancta Sanctorum as also the door of the Sacristy where a throne was erected for her Majestie to the end she might see the better the Ceremonies they did within the Sancta Sanctorum She was received in the Church by Father John Rho Provinciall of the Society of Jesus and Father Octavius Massa Rector of the Greeke Colledge At her Majesties arrivall they began the Greek Mass which was sung by my Lord Laurence Constantino Arch-Bishop of Cassandra with three Priests a Deacon and Subdeacon they using the same ceremonies the Greek Church is accustomed to do when the Bishop does solemnly celebrate the said Prelate vesting himself in a pontifical habit in the midst of the Quire on a little throne Her Majestie was much pleased with this ceremony and shewing she understood well those rites discoursed of them with Signior Allatio of the City of Scio a person of
great learning who was expresly there to satisfie her Majesties demands The Queen saw their communion and when the Masse was done a Priest bringing to her the bread that was blessed she tasted some of it The said ceremonies being ended she arose up very gladly having satisfied in that her curiosity which desired to understand and know all things and was accompany'd out of the Church by the Fathers aforesaid and other Cavaliers As she was never idle so to exercise continually her mind and entertain it in noble and vertuous habits besides musicall Consorts which from time to time she had in the evenings in her lodgings at which great Personages were present she gave order to Count Francis Maria Santinelli Gentleman of her Chamber to bring her a list of the persons fam'd for learning and experienced in the Academies of Rome and acquaint them with her Majesties desire to have them hold their Academies in her Palace And as every one justly sought to shew her a dutifull respect not only with the tribute of reverence but with their parts and talents so they were most ready to comply with her desires which no sooner were made known unto them but many fruitfull wits with which the Court of Rome still abounds were employed in her praises The Fathers of the Society who justly may be called the Oracles of the Sciences not permitting their sublime wits to sleep nor their fortunate Pens to be idle as they knew that the Queen so great a lover of learning would see their Roman Colledge the most happy schools of the Sciences and piety so they put those compositions together which they thought not so much to be sutable to the ornament of the place as meet for the reception of a woman who exceeded the capacity of men in the knowledg of the most profound literature And indeed in the rich mine of their sublime wits they found so much matter that all that beheld it were astonisht and amazed at the numerous and proper applications of so many images Mottos Hieroglyphicks and Emblems all alluding to the Person alone of this renowned Princess On the 18th of January after dinner her Majesty came to the said Colledg with her usuall attendance accompanied by so many Persons that she could hardly get in her self though the gate was well lookt to by the Guards of the Switzers set expresly there to hinder the disorders which usually occurre in the like crowds and throngs At the entrance into the said Colledg was a great quadrangle with walkes round about supported by Pillars under which in three parts the Schooles are extended All the Pillars were adorned with the pictures of women remarkable in learning with their medalls of embossed work coloured like brass and under two thick pastboords of the like embossed work In the first they read the elogy of each one which was still applied to the qualities of the Queen and in the second they saw a Motto on the same subject In the semicircles of the Arches the Universities and Colledges in which those Fathers teach were painted with their Inscriptions Between the Pillars and each door of the Schooles were represented the particular donatives of each City offered to the Queen and displaied underneath with an Epigram written within a wreath supported by an Angell The second place was the room of the gate through which they goe into the Colledg In this they represented the statues of the Queenes renowned for their raignes expressed in darkish colours and standing on their bases under which in severall pastboords hung their Elogies all applied to her Majesty Between one statue and another on a great gilt pastboord were the Emblems relating to the vertues required in Princes and under the Epigrams of the Emblem All these roomes seemed adorned with red damaske with twisted gold being so naturally painted that they cozened the eyes in case they were not toucht The leaf-workes had interchangeably on them the Armes of her Majesty and the Mottos alluded to the vertues aforesaid In the third place were extended the little walkes which are behind this roome in the which as contiguous to the garden was painted most excellently a beautifull garden with a prospect of various Pillars in which were written elogies and odes on the Empresses and Queens renowned for their vertues and piety on the doores four Emblems with their Epigrams being delineated The fourth and last place was the space between the sacristy and the Church and there they saw painted the Empresses and Queens come to Rome to honour there the Vicars of Christ The painting represented a plain in which were erected great Pyramides in every one of which was imprinted an Elogie in praise of that picture which still had relation to her Majesty between the one Pyramide and the other was a fained bound of brass which held up an ode on the same subject and on the other between these hung a paper with an Epigramme The Church of the said Colledge dedicated to St Ignatius the founder of the Society of Jesus albeit not yet finished was most beautifully adorned As her Majesty went in at the great gate she saw on the first arch within an inscription containing the argument of all the preparation and in the space between the great gate and the walkes of the Court on the right hand was painted the heavenly wisdom desired by Solomon and preferred before riches and Kingdoms on the left hand Pallas the wisdom of the ancient Gentiles who with her speare made an Olive-tree grow up in opposition to Neptune who caused a horse to appear All this was display'd in 4. odes written on thick past-boards supported by the bounds in four pillars and in four others the Sybills and Muses who with their predictions and verses alluded to her Majesty She went afterwards up into the roome o're the Gate where a throne being prepar'd she was complemented by Father Lodowick Bompiani the Rector of the said University with a Latin oration Being come without the Court she went up and down all the Schooles in every one of which she was welcom'd by one of the most eminent Scholars with a short Epigramme Being afterwards returned into the said roome o're the gate she was by Father Rho the Provinciall informed of the contents of that noble preparation and heard him read the names of those renowned Princesses Thence she went into the Church where she heard a motetto with most exquisite musick and afterwards departed This vertuous preparation was most curious and noble and therefore the concourse of the people to see and admire it was great On the first of February her Majesty went to see the Colledge of Urbane for the propagation of the Faith where Cardinall Capponi as Vice-prefect of that Congregation in the absence of Cardinal Anthony Barberino the Prefect was ready to receive her She was first conducted into the printing-house where they print two and twenty severall tongues and she saw in an