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A50476	Parthenopoeia, or, The history of the most noble and renowned kingdom of Naples with the dominions therunto annexed and the lives of all their kings : the first part / by that famous antiquary Scipio Mazzella ; made English by Mr. Samson Lennard ... ; the second part compil'd by James Howell, Esq., who, besides som [sic] supplements to the first part, drawes on the threed [sic] of the story to these present times, 1654 ; illustrated with the figures of the kings and arms of all the provinces.; Descrittione del regno di Napoli. English	Mazzella, Scipione.; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing M1542; ESTC R9145	346,662	279

which they perceiving for this cause the time of their service being expired took part with Guaimaro who by their worthy deeds in a short time recovered much Through these famous atchieuments the Normans gained the reputation of valiant Warriers with every one In the mean time died Tancred their Father which was Earl of Altavilla the which Count descending to Gugli●lmo Ferrabach his eldest son omitted no time to go into Normandy to take possession thereof where after he had setled the affairs of his State returned afterward into Italy bringing with him no less then fifteen thousand Normans into Romagna and in process of time got not only the dominion thereof but also the most part of Tuscan Things resting in this manner the Saracins possest all Sicilia and Sardinia and many times did much prejudice the Coast of Italy whereupon Pope Sergio the 4 fearing and much suspecting they would overrun all Italy demanded aid of Guglielmo Ferabach Guglielmo through the perswasion of the Pope went in this expedition with eleven thousand of his souldiers together with Maniace Captain of Michele Paslagone the Greek Emperor to the recovery of Sicilia and with much valour and courage expeld the Saracins out of all the ●sle but Maniace not observing the agreement that what was gotten should be equally divided between them Farabache growing wrathfull past with his Normans into Puglia making a mighty slaughter subdued the greasted part and finding a fit and secure place builded the City of Melsi in a difficult place and well fortified by nature The which Maniace understanding came upon him with a strong Army but Ferabach braving the enemy which besieged him being wearied with travel came out against them and encountring them gave them a mighty overthrow near the River of Lofonte in Puglia the Normans remaining Conquerors and so rich both of reputation and spoil mounted mightily in state indeavouring both by might and other Military means to obtain other places and Cities in Puglia the which atchieuments succeeding with so great felicity to the Normans it followed that all Puglia came into the possession of the said Guglielmo who through his valiant acts had the name of Ferabach that is to say strong-arm of which dominion he afterward took the title of an Earl Afterward Guglielmo died in the year of our Lord 1042. and because he left no child his brother Dragone succeeded in the County which was Lord of Venosa who had at his beginning a great overthrow by Melo Captain of the Greek Emperor and lost a great part of Puglia but being aided by Guaimaro Prince of Salerno he oftentimes fought with the Greeks without any advantage yet in the end in a great conflict he overthrew and dissolved the Greek Army and not only recovered that which he had first lost but also got many Castles and Holds which the enemies possest upon the Sea-coast of Puglia At this time the Emperor Henry the second came into Italy and having pacified the affairs of the Church went into the Kingdom and confirmed to Dragone the County of Puglia from whom he received not only much money but had also the best and fairest horses that were in all the Kingdom The Emperor departing Italy the Earl Dragone moved the Beneventani to War and in two battels which he made his Army was overthrown and he flying was slain by the enemies His brother Humfrido took the possession of the Earldom at which time Guaimaro Prince of Salerno was cruelly murdered by his own people and his son was made Prince with the help of the Normans which the said Count laboured with long War in the end the Count ill demeaning himself with the Pugliesi was for his cruel nature slain in the year 1057. Baielardo his son succeeded in his fathers Dominion the which being chased away in the same year by Ruberto Guiscard his uncle this Ruberto became the fourth Earl of Puglia who being a valiant man at arms and of a great spirit suddenly besieged Reggio and having taken it went with prosperous victory subduing other parts and Cities of Calauria to his dominion Afterward he returned into Puglia took Troia and in such manner never rested taking from hand to hand many Cities and brought all the Normans of that Country under his Empire and being fully resolved to continue no longer an Earl with a general consent caused himself to be called Duke of Puglia and Calauria At this present Nicholas the second Bishop of Rome being much incumbred with the Roman Barons came in the year 1●59 to the Parlament with Guiscardo in the City of Aquila and Guiscard having with much humility adored the Pope made peace with him and restored unto him the City of Benevento and all other places that he had belonging to the Church for the which the Pope not only received him into grace and favour but confirmed and invested him with the Title of Duke of Puglia and Calauria The which act was registred and confirmed with a solemn Oath and so Ruberto was now made a Vassal and Liegeman of the Church Sigonio writeth two Acts of the Oath which Ruberto at this present made to the Pope the one to pay the yearly tribute the other loyalty and homage the which two Acts I thought good to insert in this place to the end the Reader may know how the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction began in the Kingdom of Naples The first is in this sort Ego Robertus Dei gratia St. Petri Dux Apuliae Calabriae utroque subveniente futurus Siculis ad confirmationem traditionis ad recognitionem fidelitatis de terra S. Petri promitto me quotannis pro unoquoque jugo boum pensionem duodecim denariorum Papiensium persoluturum B. Petro tibi D. meo Nicolao Papae omnibus successoribus tuis aut tuis aut tuorum successorum nunciis ad S. Resurrectionem obligans me meos haeredes sive successores tibi successoribus tuis Sic me Deus adjuvet c. The second is thus Ego Robertus Dei S. Petri gratia Dux Apuliae utroque subveniente futurus Siciliae ab hinc in posterum fidelis ●ro S. Romanae Ecclesiae Apostolicae Sedi D. meo Nicolao Papae Neque ero auctor aut adjutor ut vitam aut membrum amittas aut capiaris mala captione consilium quod mihi credideris ne enunciem imperaris non enunciabo in tuum detrimentum sciens S. Romanae Ecclesiae ubique adjutor ero ad tenenda acquirenda regalia S. Petri ejusque possessiones pro viribus meis contra homines adjuvabo te ut securè honorifice tenens Pontificatum Romanum terramque S. Petri Et Principatum nec invadere nec subigere tentabo nec praedari contendam sine tua tuorumque successorum licentia Pensionem de terra S. Petri quam ego teneo aut tenebo sicut statutum est recta fide studebo ut

terra Lennia and terra Sacra it is much commended by Galen and many other Physitians as an excellent remedy to heal wounds and the bloudy flux and pestilent diseases and the biting of venomous creatures and to preserve a man from poyson and to vomit poyson already taken and for other infirmities There is also a Mine of natural and artificial Salt-peter In the Province of Calauria on this side In the Territy of the Country of Martorano is a Mine of Steel In the Territory of the City of Cosenza near the River Iovinio are Mines of Gold and Iron and in a place commonly called Macchia germana is a Mine of Gold of Lead and Brimstone and a little farther in another place called Miliano is a Mine of Salt and Alume In the Territory of Pietr● fitta near the River Ispica are Mines of Steel Lead and Salt In the Territory of the Country of Regina are Mines of Alabaster of Brimstone and of Coperas In the Territory of the Country of Longobucco are Mines of Silver and Quicksilver In the Territory of Rossano are Mines of Salt and of Alabaster and the Marchesite stone In the Territory of Alto monte are Mines of Gold of Silver of Iron and of Alabaster and there grows Cristal and there also mighty Hils of white salt In the Province of Calauria on the other side In the Territory of the City of Regio are Mines of Alabaster of Brimstone and Saltpeter In the Territory of the City of Taverna is a Mine of Antimonium which is a stone of the colour of lead and very brittle like that which grows in Britany In the Territory of the Country of Agata is a Mine of Iron and Steel and of the Adamant stone In the Territory of Belforte is a Mine of Gold and of Iron and there grows Coprass and Cristal In the Territory of Calatro is a Mine of Iron In the Territory of Belvedere are Mines of Silver of Iron of Brimstone of Alume of Salt and of white and black Alabaster and there grows a stone which shineth like Silver In the Territory of Soriano is a Mine of Quicksilver In the Territory of Nicastro is a Mine of Quicksilver and there are also goodly Hils of mixed Marble In the Territory of Mesuraca is a Mine of Earth which yields a colour called of Latinists Giluus In the City Cotrone grows a Thistle which yieldeth Mastick and also it grows in Castrovillare and in many other places of Calauria And to conclude Calauria is a very goodly Region and yieldeth plenty of all good things The Castles and Forts of defence which are in the Kingdom of Naples with the number of Souldiers which remain in every Guard and their monthly pay The names of the Castles The number of souldiers The pay what it monthly imports In Naples are these 3 Castles   Duckets 1. The new Castle 167 775.2.12 2. The Castle of Eramo 110 452.2.9 3. The Castle of Vovo 25 90.4.11 The Castle of Baia. 69 233.0.13 The Castle of the Isle Ischia 34 116. The Castle of Gaeta 86 322.3.3 The Castle of Capoa 51 200.1.13 The Castle of Aquila 53 197.1.13 The fortified Castle of Brindesi 56 175.3 The Castle of Leccie 54 201.1.13 The Castle of Otranto 86 144.1.13 The Castle of Civitella 94 Duckets 321.0.13 The Castle of Pesara 62 303.2.10 The Castle of Viesti 36 247 1.13● The Castle of Momfredonia 34 137.1.13 The Castle of Barletta 52 194.1.13 The Castle of Bary 28 118.1.13 The Castle of Monopoli 29 140. The Castle of Brindesi 41 151. The little Castle of Brindesi 63 223.4 The Castle of Cosenza hath only a Capt. with the pay of 10 crowns monthly 1 10 The Castle of Gallipoli 30 Duckets 125.1.13 The Castle of Taranto 46 176.0.4 The Castle of Cotrone 39 136.3.6 The Castle of Bi●eglia hath but only a Captain 1 10 The Castle of St. Germano hath only a Captain with the allowance of 200 duckets yearly 1 17 The Castle of Trani hath only a Captain with the pay of 10 crowns monthly 1 10 In the Isle of Nis●ta the Court maintain●th a Ga●ison   Duckets The Fort of the City of Aman●e● maintaineth 6 souldiers 6 20.4 The Fort of St. Cataldo maintain there 6 262. In the Isle of Tipare are two Gunners 2 2 A CATALOGVE Of the Earls and Dukes of Puglia and Calauria and of all the Kings of Naples Normans S●evi Angioini Durazzeschi Aragonesi Castilliani Austriaci ALthough I have more at large written in another book of the lives of all the Kings which have ruled the Kingdom of Naples but being now to speak of the same subject I will handle every thing with as much brevity as may be hoping that as it will be no small ornament to this work so it will give no little contentment to the Reader It is then to be understood that in the year of our Lord 987. the last year of the reign of Lewis the fifth King of France avaliant Norman souldier and of great magnanimity called Tancred having twelve sons which he had by two wives that is to say of Moriella Lucha his first wife he had Frumentino Gotfredo Sarno Tancred Malugero Dragone Godfredo and Alberedo of the second wife called Fresanda Rotaria the daughter or as some write the sister of the Earl of Altavilla he had Guglielmo Feraback Vnfredo Ruberto Guiscard and Ruggieri Bosso with these twelve sons Tancred determined to seek out some new Country to inhabit and to try some new and better fortune with hope to find some other place to live better and more richly through his industry and wit and coming into Italy first arived in Romagna and perceiving that Landolfo Prince of Salerno was much opprest through the excursions and outroads of the Saracins sent in his aid six of his sons who being well provided by the Prince both of horse and arms in three battels wherein they incountred the enemy made an admirable slaughter of them whereupon they returned as it were in triumph to Salerno and were by the Prince and all the people received and with much intreaty were sollicited to remain in that Court But they declaring that what they did was not for any human pomp nor for any other end but the service of God refusing all gifts returned to their own habitation But within a few years following there fell certain controversies between Pandolfo of St. Agata and Guaimaro Prince of Salerno Pandolfo sent Ambassadors into Romagno requesting Guglielmo Dragone and Vmfrido three sons of Tancred with many promises and offers to serve under his pay which that he might the better do in the manner of another Narsetes sent them not only rich furniture for horses and costly apparel for themselves but great store of money These worthy men made no delay to come to the Prince Pandolfo through whose assistance the enemy being foild was forced with shame and sorrow to retire but Pandolfo being brutish and ungratefull made no great account of them

fift Emperour and the 26th King OF NAPLES FOR compleating the History of Naples I will take my rise from a High-ground from that Heroick Prince that Top of men CARLOS Quinto who was the first of the Austrian Family that saluted in person the fair Parthenope and mounted the Napolitan Courser From him we will go regularly on and draw the thred of the Story to his Great Grand-child Philip the fourth now Regnant THE Emperour Charles the fift is famous for divers high Feats of Magnanimity and Prudence but the greatest and difficultest Exploit that ever he did the most signal Victory that ever he obtained through-out the whole course of his life which had bin so active was that Conquest he made of Himselfe when he brought his passions and height of spirit to be so succumbent and co●chant and to stoop unto Him in so low a posture that stripping himself of all his Imperial and Royal Robes which he had worn in so much glory the first 36. yeers the other 40. from sixteen to six and fifty he reach'd them with his own hands the one to his brother Ferdinand to put on the other to his son Philip denuding himself thereby of all earthly power command and wealth and pulling off as it were all his clothes therby before he went to bed and burying Himself in a dark Cloyster before he was dead An act without controversy most heroick and discovering a high Soul For as while we sojourn here among these frail and mutable Elements the Conduct of our passions is held by the Philosophers to be the principall busines of Vertu so the Conquest of them is the noblest part of Valour A man need no● go abroad to seek Enemies wheron to exercise his Courage if he descend into himself he shall find Foes enough at home I mean those Inmates and innated rebellious appetits those tumultuous irregular humors which lodg within him and to give Them the check is the hardest part of the Play we are to act upon this worldly Stage Charles the Emperour did this when he had but newly finished the eleventh Lustre of his Age being then not 56. yeers old nor did he thus controll himself by abandoning the pomp and glory of this life and avoiding publick care that he might retire to a Country House of pleasure to hawk and hunt or use such pastimes but he remov'd from so many Thrones to enter himself into a Monastery or Hermitage rather that by that reclus'd life he might sequester himself from all mundane negotiations and delights to have more vacancy not only to study the Theory of Mortification but put it in practise Besides this reason he declard at his Resignation that he was now weary of the incombrances of worldly affairs wherewith he had bin laden so many yeers for which he was becom now unweldly in regard of Age as also being afflicted with frequent fi●ts of the Gout which made him so crazy and unapt for Government having us'd Tassata stirrops for divers yeers One of his Predecessors Severus the Emperour was of an other humor for he being very sick of the Gout at the Citty of York as the story tells us one of his Nobles attending him at that time told him that the world did admire how he could govern so many separated Nations and make such remote Expeditions being so subject to that Arthriticall lame disease whereunto the Emperour with more vigor then ordinary answer'd Sir I would have you know that I rule the Empire with my head and not with my feet with my temples not with my toes Hereunto may be not impertinently answer'd that memorable answer which the late Henry the Great of France gave to a Spanish Ambassador who coming to visit him when he was sore sick of the Gout and condoling his indisposition he suddenly rise up off his Couch and told him Ventre de saint Gris sil y avoit ocasion Vostre Maistre n● auroit pas plustost le pied dans Lestrier qu'il ne me trouveroit monte a cheval non obstant la g●●te By the belly of Saint Gris if there were ocasion your Master meaning Philip the 3d. of Spain shold not have his foot sooner in the stirrop then he shold find me on hors-back notwithstanding the Gout But touching Charles the Emperour whereof we have spoken it is much that he shold be so subject to the Gout if stirring and motion be a Supersedeas against it as the Physitions hold because few Princes had bin so active as he from his very youth for he made nine journies into Germany seven to Italy ten to Flanders four to France two to England and two expeditions to Afric He had made eight Voyages on the Mediterranean Sea and three on the Ocean And what a world of Achievements did he perform in these Expeditions He sent away the great Solyman weeping from before the Walls of Vienna and so stoppd that huge torrent of destruction which was like to have overwhelm'd all Germany and quickly after the rest of Christendom He made Barbarossa that formidable Pyrate and his Dragon the Admiral Gal●on wherein he sayl'd to ●ly before him what notable Conquests were those of Goletta and Tunis where the Roman Eagles had not flown since the time of Scipio and Hannibal and had not the Emulation of som Christian Princes found him work at home and diverted him he in all appearance had conquered and civiliz'd all Barbary To return to Europe he took the Duke of Cleve with all his Towns and Territories he quash'd the Duke of Sax who was head of the Lutheran party he imprison'd the Duke of Milan he subdued and sack'd Rome he tam'd the mutinous City of Gant where he first breath'd aire and had bin rock'd in his Cradle he pierc'd the very heart of France forcing that King to fly to the Turk for his assistance against him whom he afterwards took prisoner being the day he was born upon yet touching that action as he himself confess'd though Charles had more of Fortune therein yet Francis had got as much of glory considering all circumstances being taken with naked Sword in hand among a throng of fighting Enemies all about him weltring in blood Colours flying and Victory fluttering on both sides with doubtfull wings The full discovery of the new World was made in his Raign with the Mines of Peru In fine he had such a continuall tide of good success that it seems that Age was design'd for his glory He had twenty pitcht Battels and above three hundred Sieges nor did he know what a Repulse was but only at Algier Marseilles Mets where the wind blew strongly in his face insomuch that among the Caesars Charlemain may be sayd to be only parrallell to Charles le Q●int All this he intimated in a fluent and vigorous swelling Oration before the two Queens Elianor of France and Mary of Hungary Dowager his Sisters divers Knights of the golden Fleece and a great confluence