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A47954	Il nipotismo di Roma, or, The history of the popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII in two parts / written originally in Italian in the year 1667 ; and Englished by W.A.; Nipotismo di Roma. English	Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.; Aglionby, William, d. 1705.	1669 (1669)	Wing L1335; ESTC R2244	180,003	346

they least thought of it He did much affect this sort of Generosity or rather Soverainty for he never suffered any of his Relations to put their hands into his Coffers nay he was so absolute that once he banished a Kinsman of his because he found his House better furnished than it could be by those Gratifications which he had received from the Pope who used no more words with him but these We have given you so much and you have so much How came you by the rest And so without delay he banish'd him and divided his Fortune amongst his other Relations If the Nephews of other Popes become rich it is by the abuse they make of that Authority which they usurp in the Pope's Name But it was not so with the Nipotismo of Sixtus for he never gave blindly but with his eyes open and discreetly And if there were any Error committed in their growing rich it was the Pope that was the Author of it and not they who were meerly passive and did but receive their Uncles Liberalities There is no doubt but that under this Pope the Church received much more benefit than damage for the Nipotismo having no Power could not be otherwise than good and innocent and the Pope himself was so wise and vertuous a Prince that there were few Miscarriages in his time if we except that only occasion in which Sixtus by his too hasty Excommunication of King Henry the Third of France brought the Church in danger of losing for ever so noble and flourishing a part of Christendom as it had hapned already by the rashness of one Pope that the Kingdom of England was entirely lost only because Clement the Seventh would not yield a little of his Authority And indeed I think the greatest blemish upon the Reputation of Sixtus is that he suffer'd himself to be so far transported with anger as to Excommunicate Henry the Third of France for having caused the Cardinal of Guise to be killed and the Cardinal of Bourbon to be shut up in a close Prison with the Archbishop of Lyons who were indeed all three Traytors to the Kingdom and Conspirators against the Royal Person of Henry The Consistory of Cardinals did oppose this violent Resolution of Sixtus by remonstrating to him the terrible consequence of it and the danger that all the Church would incur by the loss of so noble a Christian Kingdom But the Pope laughing at all this answered the Cardinals in this manner If therefore you will have it so we will bring it to pass that from henceforward you shall be neither honour'd nor reverenc'd by Princes nor Kings but despis'd vilified and exposed to the hands both of the Oppressor and the Executioner Certainly if the killing of Cardinals be conniv'd at and pass'd over without resentment and chastisement it may very easily become the Case of every one of you However we will rather do that which Justice requires though you little care that Reason be done for the Violence committed not so much against you as the Sacred Purple Nevertheless the Pope was wary not to precipitate things so suddenly but suffered five Months to pass after the death of the Cardinal of Guise during which interval he made by Letters several Admonitions to the King all which proved to no purpose the King being resolute not to free the Cardinal out of Prison which the Pope so vehemently urged Whereupon seeing he could not prevail he thundered out the greater Excommunication with all the accustomed Forms against the King and against all those who in the said matter should afford Counsel to or in any manner whatsoever assist him Besides which he also cited the said King to make his personal Appearance at Rome within the term of seventy days there to give account of the Death of the Cardinal of Guise and the Imprisonment of the Cardinal of Bourbon The King conceived great indignation upon this proceeding of the Pope and began to advise with the Prelates Bishops and Counsellors of greatest trust with him how to ward off such a Storm and things were carried so far that the Council-Royal seem'd resolv'd to create a Patriarch in France particularly for the Gallicane Church who should not in any wise be subject to or have so much as the least Communication with the Church of Rome And 't is likely the French who affect Novelties would not have been backward to close with this Resolution But whilst Matters went on in this manner it so came to pass that the King as he lay with a great Army at S. Cloud two Leagues from Paris was on the first day of August in the year 1569. wounded in the belly with a two-edged Knife by a Dominican Fryar named Jaques Clement Native of the City of Lans and of the age of twenty three years as he was receiving Letters from the hand of the said Friar who was upon his knees of which Wound he died within fourteen hours in regard his Entrals were pierc'd having imploy'd this short in ordering such things as concerned his Soul This Murder hapned seventy eight days after the Summons by the Pope for his Appearance at Rome within seventy days and his Holiness rejoyced not a little at it since hereby the displeasure which the Consistory of Cardinals the People and Nobility had conceiv'd against him as one that car'd not much to see the destruction of a Kingdom which would breed disturbance to the common quiet of Italy from Age to Age both by Sea and Land Great were the Stirs which succeeded in France after the King's death inasmuch as Henry King of Navar next Heir to the Crown began to ende●vour the possession thereof by warring against the Lords of the Ligue who were back'd and upheld by the Spaniards by whom the Succession of Henry was infinitely opposed In these Commotions and Broils of France the Pope gave not those Assistances to the Ligue which they expected and required and this upon several accounts but especially because he would not condescend to the Instances of the Cardinals and the Spaniards who much solicited him giving them this Answer When we were against the dead Henry all you were our Opponents Now that you would persecute the living Henry we will not side with you for the sake of our own Interest It was not a little displeasing to the King of Spain that the Pope did not succour the Ligue nor declare Excommunicate those Princes and Prelates that followed the side of Navar so that the King resolv'd to make some Protestations to the Pope concerning this Tergiversation But his Holiness wanted not Pretexts to fence with and in a manner made sport with those Spanish Cardinals who importun'd him either to unite with the Ligue or send considerable Assistance to it Gregory the Thirteenth had Nephews who did not degenerate from the Name of Buoncompagno that is to say they little car'd to do good and less to do evil Nevertheless according to the Instinct which

the rest of his kindred His death was very unwelcome to them all having begun already to build Castles in the air but particularly to one of them who pretended to be General of the Churches Forces to marry a Princess and be revenged of all his Enemies but he came so far short of all that instead of the equipage of a Gentleman that he came to Rome in he returned in a poor plight to Bologna A month after Clement the eighth of the House of Aldobrandino of Florenee was chosen Pope with an incredible joy of all the people of Rome He himself was born in the City of Fano This Pope found his Family full of noble and ancient Blood but as empty of Riches therefore calling them to him he began by his Predecessours example to give them Offices Places and Dignities but with a certain moderation and not precipitating his Favours as the others had done but giving to day one thing and to morrow another he contented them all without scandal In his first promotion of Cardinals he created two of his Nephews viz. Pietro Aldobrand●no his Brothers Son and Cinthio Passero di Sinigaglia his Sisters Son and with the help of these two the Pope did govern all the Church Affairs desiring every thing should pass by their hands particularly through Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandino whom he lov'd most cordially calling him the Idol of his heart and often for fear of contradicting him he would let him do as he listed The charge of General of the Church was given to Giovanni Francesco Aldobrandino another of his Nephews in which place he enjoyed not only all of the Prerogatives and Priviledges that had been granted to the other Nephews of Popes but besides his Holiness encreased his pay by two thousand Crowns a year and invented new priviledges for him In the year 1595. he bought the Marquisat of Meldola which he bestowed upon Octavio Aldobrandino another of his Nephews declaring him absolute Soveraign of the said place but yet made him stay in Rome that he might be at hand lose no occasions of getting something else from him at last Alfonso d' Es●e last Duke of Ferrara happening to dye in the year 1597. the Pope thought to take this Principality for himself as being devolv'd to the Church and resolv'd to give the investiture to his Nephew Octavio so having held a publick Consistory in which he declared that the Dutchy of Ferrara was become the Churches patrimony and immediately ordered Cardinal Aldobrandino to raise a powerful Army and put himself in possession of the said Dutchy by driving out Cesar of Este who was Heir by the Will of the late Duke and was actually in possession But the Pope pretended that he being a Bastard was incapable of inheriting The Cardinal soon got together a great Army and so frighted Don Cesar that he was forced to fly to Modena and leave Ferrara to the Pope and the Cardinal Aldobrandino after some Articles agreed on between his Uncle and Don Cesar entred the place and took possession of it in the name of the Church with little joy to the Inhabitants who lost a good Master to fall into the hands of Church-men who change every day their Governours As soon as the news of the rendition of Ferrara came to the Popes ears he began by all means to procure the investiture for his Nephew Octavio for whom he thought the Marquisat of Meldola but inconsiderable But he met with a strange repugnancy in all the Cardinals for his design they having by a common consent and union resolved to oppose the Popes desire and not endure that the Church should be depriv'd of so considerable a City which it had but newly acquired The Pope foreseeing by this reluctancy of the Cardinals that it was a business hardly to be carried in a publick Consistory forbore to speak of it there but took another course for calling the Cardinals one by one into his chamber he there signified to them his desire but they all refused to consent or be any wayes accessary to the alienating so considerable a piece of the Popedome So that the Pope thought it was not safe to do it without them and by force for fear of leaving his Nephew involv'd in a continual War against all the succeeding Popes and Don Cesar and therefore he resolv'd to go in person and take possession in the name of the Church A little after he made another of his Nephews Cardinal who was Silvestro Aldobrandino Prior of Rome to whom he gave an infinite number of Benefices Thus Clement did every day do his endeavour to procure riches for his Family either in lands or moveables who of their side were as ready to receive as their Uncle could be to give particularly when it was ready money Leo the eleventh who succeeded to Clement had not the same good fortune for being chosen in the year 1665. he liv'd but five and twenty dayes In which time he projected much but executed little amongst other things he gave out that his design was not to advance his kindred but only to continue them in their quality and make their Estates plentiful and easie which is a certain moderation which most of the Popes do affect to shew in their first administration of the Popedom for even Sixtus the fourth who gave with so profuse a hand did still pretend that he did nothing but what was lawful and to the advantage of the Church This Pope had many Relations in the Family of the Medici but in that branch which was not come to be Princes but his Darling amongst them was Alexander Medici son to his brother Bernardetto which Alexander had a son of twenty years old called Octaviano which was the Popes Fathers name Whereupon the Pope sent for him with an intention to make him Cardinal and keep him by him but the very same day that he came to Rome the Pope dyed without being able to promote him to that degree of honour● which was a great affliction to all the kindred Now let us speak of Paul the fifth of the Family of Borghese made Pope in 1605. who in an instant filled Rome with Borgheses The Pope was of a most kind nature and particularly to his kindred amongst whom while he was Cardinal he was wont to spend all his Revenue but his greatest passion was for Scipion Carafelli his Sisters son whom he had brought up from a child and him he made Cardinal as soon as he was made Pope himself giving him the name of Cardinal Borghese by which name he was ordinarily called and did subscribe himself This Cardinal was the interpreter of his Uncles mind the Mediator of his favours and the Coadjutor in all weighty matters of the State and Church They that expected any kindnesses from the Pope were not to purchase them any other way then by the means of him who commanded and governed the Pope and all things The Pope desiring to follow his Predecessours steps

where I spake of the house of Borgia divided into two Branches one in Spain the other in Naples for the House of the Caraffi when Paul the fourth was made Pope was divided also into two Branches one of them remaining in Rome by the acquisition of a new Estate the other in Naples in possession of what they had got before The Lords of the Caraffi enjoy at present in Naples many Signiories as particularly the Dutchy of Matalone which they had enjoyed a hundred years before Paul the fourth without interruption being anciently Dukes from the time of Ferdinando first King of Naples and reckon'd amongst his principal Favourites and are still esteem'd of very well by the Crown of Spain though in the revolutions of Naples upon I know not what considerations the affection Philip the fourth had for a long time for the Duke of Matalone was observed to grow cold This Branch that remained in Naples received no benefit or advantage by that which was establish'd in Rome which last being extinguish'd by the two Popes aforesaid by the death and sequestration of so many Caraffi the other remained in Naples daily augmenting by the favours and priledges they receive from the Crown of Spain Neither are the Neopolitan Caraffi of the same condition with the Roman they having nothing as many believe or at least very little of the Church Lands in their possession which continued not long to the other House not so much as to the second Generation and therefore these Lords are still so considerable in Naples because their Estates sprang rather from the reward of their valour than the oppression of the poor All this notwithwanding the People of Naples were always disaffected to the House of Matalone for which reason in the Revolution of Masanello Don Joseph Caraffa was slain by the fury of the People his heart pull'd out of his breast and his body drawn all about the City with this Exclamation This is he that betray'd the most faithful People of Naples Besides there were several Palaces of the Dukes full of inestimable Furniture burnt without being able to preserve one and I being then in Naples heard several cry We must burn all to purge the House of Caraffa from the Leprosie of the rest of the Caraffi alluding to them who in the time of Paul the Fourth had made themselves odious to all the World as well as to Rome The Family of the Buoncompagni was considerable above thirty years after the death of Gregory the Thirteenth which was the Person rais'd them to that height for though before they were in some degree of Nobility yet their Estate was but narrow and small however in the twelve years of his Papacy he let them get so much that without any great difficulty they liv'd like Princes after the death of that Pope who died in March 1585. Giacomo Buoncompagno General for the Holy Church left many Sons all rich and allied to good Houses notwithstanding in a short time all was consumed and though there was not one lavish or profuse person in the Family though they had several Cardinalships and other Charges in Rome yet could not all prevent their growing worse every day And had not two Marriages sustained them and put them into the condition they are in which yet is but mean in respect of the g●andeur they were in before they had certainly before this been destroy'd But the greatest wonder in the particular of the sudden destruction of the Popes Families was in the House of Peretti rais'd by Sixtus the Fifth That Pope to immortalize his Name and the Grandeur of his House which was but of very low extraction married two of his Nephews or Nephews Sons I know not which into the principallest Families in Rome giving each of them considerable Estates in Land and an infinite quantity of Money and that it might not meet with any untoward accident to subvert it he settled their Estates in the surest and best places he could thinking thereby to secure and establish his Family Ten years after the death of Sixtus there were seven Males of the House of Peretti alive that is in the year 1600. all of them very rich but particularly they which had the Inheritance of Cardinal Montalto who left his Nephews an Estate of a hundred thousand Crowns in yearly Rent besides what they had afore Many People conceiv'd this Family was establish'd for ever and who would not have thought so considering the number and fertility of the Males their Alliance with the greatest Families their Riches and in short their enjoyment of all things necessary to the immortalizing a Family Yet the Name the Wealth the Granduer of this House did all vanish like smoak at the death of Cardinal Froncesco Peretti who died in the beginning of Innocent the Tenth's Papacy with no small trouble to the Romans who loved his person exceedingly having found him full of actions of generosity and nobleness to all that had to do with him And so was the House of Peretti extinct not being able to continue half an Age. Yet notwithstanding the death of the Cardinal was the rise of another Family from the Pope which is called the Savelli into which one of his Sisters was married who remained Heir to a vast and inestimable Patrimony Some People are confident That if the House of Peretti had continued the Savelli would have been in an ill condition so as there was no great hurt done to lose one Family and have another rais'd The House of che Sfondrati yielded to the Papacy Gregory the Fourteenth who though sprung from Milan himself yet nevertheless as to his Original he may not improperly be styl'd both the Son and the Father of Cremona a Town considering its Antiquity amongst the principal of Italy besides that it has in all times produc'd men very eminent both in Learning and Wars In this City amongst the most considerable Citizens was this House of Sfondrati always enjoying the greatest Office in the Council which procur'd no small envy in the hearts of many insomuch as some people excited the Cambiaghi which was then a Family of great credit and esteem in the City to oppose themselves against the Ambition of the Sfondrati who at that time appear'd to carry all before them The Cambiaghi back'd and supported by other of the Citizens endeavour'd what they could the diminution of the Sfondrati and from hence arose not to say Civil Wars great feuds and animosities between them which continued till such time as Girolamo Sfondrati was called to Milan where meeting with greater Advancements he resolved to leave Cremona for ever And from this Family now become Milanese Gregory the Fourteenth descended who would always acknowledge Cremona to be his Country yet would declare often whilst he was a young Student there He would never return to Cremona till he was made Bishop of that place Afterwards arriving at a competency of years and other qualifications he begg'd