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
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
There are many rare things in our beloved Son Luke Holstenius of our houshold principall Apostolicall Notary Canon of the Church of Saint Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library to wet excellent vertue singular learning and accomplisht behaviour for which though of your own accord you will shew him all civility and respect yet this is to be added that we send him into Germany to negotiate high affairs and of greatest concern in which regard whatsoever shall be done by you for him by you will be conferr'd on this holy Sea and on the whole Church whose cause he now acts 'T is onely your part to acquit your self so in receiving him that neither your piety nor civility towards so excellent a man be required of us You shall know more by him of our affection to you who will too in our name impart unto you our Apostolicall benediction Given at Rome the 10th of October 1655. in the first year of our Papacy Natalis Rondininus He afterwards arriving on the 28th in Inspruch did treat the next morning with Court Piccolomini principall Gentleman in his Highnesses Court and father Christopher Mendler a Jusuit his Confessor to have audience of the Arch-Duke which he had the same evening to whome he presented the Popes Breif of the following tenor To our beloved Son the noble Charles Ferdinand Arch-Duke of Austria Alexander VII Pope BEloved Son and noble Prince Greeting and Apostolicall benediction The pastor all care the burthen impos'd on us lately requires hath forc'd us to send into Germany for the compassing of a difficult and most weighty affair our beloved Son Luke Holstenius of our houshold principall Apostonicall Notary Canon of the Church of Saint Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library a man in whom besides his great learning which hath very well deserv'd of the dignity of the Romane Church this age admires a singular faith and honesty together with a like conduct in the management of business It would in a manner be an injury to your noblenesse if we should use many words to desire you to receive him with courtesie and kindness while he greets you in our name since you dayly teach posterity in the Patrimony of your Ancestors glory you have nothing dearer to you than the praise of defending whom both their own vertue and pontificall affection the honourablest testimony of vertue doth commend But how we are affected to your noblenesse and how earnestly desire the prosperity of your affairs you will clearly know of him And we send you very lovingly our Apostolicall benediction Given at Rome at Saint Maries the greater under the Ring of the fisher on the 10th day of October 1655. and in the first year of our Papacy Natalis Rondininus That Prince receiv'd the Brief with great humility and treated my Lord Holstenius very courteously hearing him with much attention When he heard of the motive of his coming and the function he was to perform in that place for the sollemn profession of the Queen he remain'd full of wonder and unspeakable joy that the City of his residence by order of the Pope should be honoured with so glorious and conspicuous an action Holstenius then enlarged himself in assuring his Highnesse of his Holinesses fatherly affection and the confidence he had in his generous piety telling him 't was needlesse he should acquaint him with his Holinesses desire and satisfaction in order to the honouring of that action with some publique demonstration of joy while he at his arrival found so splendid a preparation for the entrance and reception of her Majesty Holstenius was carried from the Inne where he lighted conducted to a lodging appointed for him within another house being attended by the Baron of Waitmanstorf one of the four Chaplains of his Highness and Commissary General of the Mines in Tysole who with other attendance had the care to provide him two Groomes and a Coach of the Court he treating him very splendidly and failing in nothing that became a punctual Minister The day after Halstenius thought it good to send Father Malines to meet the Queen to discover her sense about the manner and forme of the Profession of the Catholick religion which she was to make publickly since neither she nor any one else till that time knew such was the pleasure of the Pope The Father departed saw the Queen and Don Anthony Pimentel and brought word she was absolutely disposed to performe very punctually his Holinesses Orders On the 31 of October in the morning Holstenius received expresse order from Rome by a Courier sent to him to procure that her Majestie should retard as much as she could her journey to give time for providing all things fit for her reception the Popes great and generous minde desiring it should be in the most Majestique forme and most honourable that could be desired and that above all the four Nuntii elected to receive her and serve her in the Churches dominions should prepare for their journey be ready on the confines with that traine and decorum which the quality of their charge and condition required After dinner my Lord Holstenius had audience of the Arch-Dutches Anne of Medices and the Arch-Duke Sigismond Francis to whom he presented the Pontificall Breifes of the following tenor To our beloved Daughter in Christ the noble Arch-Dutchesse of Austria Alexander VII Pope BEloved Daughter in Christ and noble Princesse Greeting and Apostolicall benediction with other commands given to our beloved Son Luke Holstenius of our houshold principall Apostolicall Notary Canon of the Church of St. Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library by the occasion of great affairs to be manag'd by him in Germany 't is given him in charge in a principall manner to visit your nobleness in our name and clearly inform you of our affection to you That this our advertisement is valued by you we both constantly believe and your noblenesse will abundantly make good if you gratiously entertain the Bearer hereof and with your authority and favours where need shall require defend and assist him he being a person of singular faith and honesty and polished exactly with all good arts Which that you will do we again and again request of your noblenesse to whom we very lovingly impart our Apostolicall benediction Given at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the seal of the fisher on the 10th of October 1655 and in the first year of our Papacy And he was received by them with all the most affectionate expressions of a reverend obsequiousness to the holy Sea particular respect On the 30 th in the evening my Lord Holstenius having preunderstood that the Baron Ghirargi cheif Counseller and minister to his Highness had thoughts of conferring with her deem'd it good to prevent him by going to visit him in his lodgings at the Pallace who received him with civilitie peculiar to the nobleness of his birth
G. Gualterius After this he gave the Original Briefe to the Master of the ceremonies of his Highness who was Signior Carlo Pompeati Canon of the Cathedral Church of Trent a person famous for his birth and education who read it with a lowd and clear voice and then gave it into the hand of the Notary there present My Lord Hoâ—sterius added some latine words which began Though this thing in open view c. He sate down and was covered according to instruction And here then the cushion being brought before him which as we said before was laid on the last step of the Altar the Queen conducted thither by the Arch-Dukes quickly and freely kneeled down upon it Holstenius presented her the printed forme of the Profession saying to her the following words This is the solemn and usual form of Professing the Catholick faith the holy Church of Rome useth and her Maâ—esty is to read before me and the witnesses here present with a clear and distinct voice and afterwards with her own hand subscribe And both the Arch-Dukes standing about the Queen together with Don Antonio Pimentel as witnesses desired her Majesty with a clear distinct and lowd voice read the following Profession I Christina believe with a firme faith and professe all and every thing contained in the Creed of Faith the holy Roman Church usâ—th namely I believe in one God the Fatheâ— Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of God and borne of his Father before all times God of God Light of Light true God of true God begotten not made consubstantial to the Father by whom all things are made who for us men and our salvation descended from the Heavens and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and made man crucifiâ—d also for us and suffered under Pontius Pilate and was buried And arose the third day accordâ—ng to the Scriptures and ascended into Heaven sits at the right hand of his father and is to come again with glory to judge the quick and the dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no end And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life who proceeds from the Father and the Son who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified who spake by the Prophets and in one holy Catholick and Apostolical Church I confesse one Baptisme in the remission of sinnes and expect the resurrection of the dead and the life to come Amen I firmly admit and embrace the Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions and the other observances and constitutions of the same Church I likewise admit the sacred Scripture according to the sense our holy Mother the Church hath held and holds to whom it belongs to judge of the sense and interpretation of the holy Scriptures neither will I ever receive and interpret it but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers I likewise professe seven true and proper Sacraments of the new Law instituted by Christ Jesus our Lord and to the salvation of mankind though al to every one are not necessary namely Baptisme Confirmation Eucharist Penance extream Unction Order and Matrimony and these to conferre grace and of these Baptisme Confirmation and Order cannot be reiterated without Sacriledge I receive and admit the received and approved rites of the Catholick Church in the solemn administration of these Sacraments I embrace and receive all and every thing which have been designed and declared in the holy Council of Trent concerning Original sin and justification I also professe that in the Masse there is offered up to God a true proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there are truly really and substantially the body and blood with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and a conversion made of the whole substance of the bread into the body and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood of Christ which conversion the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation I likewise confess that under each kind Christ is whole and entire and a true Sacrament to be received I constantly hold there is Purgatory and the souls there detained are helpt by the suffrages of the faithfull And that in like manner the Saints raigning together with Christ are to be honoured and invocated and that they offer up to God prayers for us and their reliques to be held in veneration I firmely assert the images of Christ and of the blessed Virgin as also of other Saints are to be had and retained and due honour and reverence to be given to them I likewise affirm the power of indulgences is left by Christ in his Church and their use very healthfull to Christian people I acknowledge the holy Catholick and Apostolical Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches And I promise and swear true obedience to the Bishop of Rome the successor of Saint Peter the chief of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ And all other things delivered defined and declared by the sacred Canons general Councils and especially by the holy Council of Trent I undoubtedly receive and professe and the contrary and all heresies whatsoever condemned rejected and anathematiz'd by the Church I also condemne reject and anathematize This true Catholick faith without which none can be saved which I here professe willingly and do truly hold the same entire and inviolable I will by Gods assistance most constantly retain and confesse and as much as in me lies endeavour that the same may be held taught and preacht by my subjects and those under my command I the said Christina doe promise vow and swear so help me God and these holy Evangelists CHRISTINA Her Majesty read the said Profession with such forcible expression that all remained no less astonisht than toucht with compunction at such an heroick resolution and here 't was observed that at every new period or parcell of the Scripture aforesaid her Majesty lifting up her head and fixing her eyes in the countenance of Holstenius with the freedom of her sight shew'd what resolution and affection her heart labour'd with so as this generous action so soften'd the minds of the assistants that from the eyes of many the teares out of tenderness trickel'd down in abundance The said Holstenius was not able to suppress them without difficulty and violence while he thought with what melting affection the mind of his Beatitude would have been mov'd if he had seen that action the noblest and most memorable of all to be seen in the world Her profession being ended and the oath contain'd in it taken Holstenius stood up and recited the following Verses and Prayers O Lord God of vertues convert us and shew thy face and we shall be safe Arise O Christ and help us and deliver us for thy name sake Let thy
mercy O Lord be upon us as we have hoped in thee O Lord hear my Prayer and let my cry come unto thee Our Lord be with you And with thy spirit Let us Pray O God who shewest the light of thy truth to the erring to the end they may return into the way of justice grant to all of the Christian profession to reject those things that are contrary to this name and correctest those and dispersed gatherest them together and gathered together preservest them We beseech thee mercifully to pour on Chrâ—stian people the grace of thy union that all division rejected vniting themselves to the true pastor of thy Church they may be able worthily to serve thee OMnipotent eternall God receive this thy sheep with thy fatherly piety withdrawn by thy power from the jawes of the wolfe and renew her to thy flock by thy mercifull benâ—gnity that the enemy rejoyce not at the dammage of thy family but that in her conversion and delivery thy Church as a pious mother may congratulate a daughter that is found Oâ—od â—od who man wonderfully created according to thy image dost mercifully repair propitiously behold this thy servant and what is stolne from her by the hostile blindness of ignorance and deceit of the Devill pardon and absolve through the clemency of thy piety that receiv'd by the communion of thy truth shee may be united to thy holy Church through our Lord Jesus Christ thy sonne who liveth and raigâ—eth God with thee in the Vnity of the holy Ghost world without end Amen He afterwards sate down and was cover'd giving her absolution in the following forme God forgive thee and absolve thee from all thy sinnes and bring thee to life everlasting And I by Apostolicall authority wherewith I am impower'd to this purpose by the speciall Commission of our holy Lord the Pope Alexander the Seventh absolve thee from all tye of excommunication and interdict and other ecclesiasticall sentences censures and punishments howsoever incurr'd and receive thee into the bosome of our holy mother the Roman Church and restore thee to the holy Sacraments of the same and to the Communion and unity of the faithfull in the name of the Father and the Sonne and the holy Ghost Amen After this hee arose up again and gave her the benediction in the following words Confirme O God that thou hast wrought in us From thy holy Temple which is in Hierusalem Behold thus shall the man bee blessed that feares the Lord. Our Lord bless thee from Sion Who hath made Heaven and Earth The blessing of God Almighty the Father and Sonne and holy Ghost descend vpon thee and remaine alwayes with thee Amen Then the Queen stood up and was by their Highnesses conducted to her first place whither Holstenius repairing in a very low posture congratulated her Majestie and incontinently caus'd the Psalme to bee sung Make yee jubilation to God all the earth c. with musique of exquisite voyces of Organs Trumpets Tabours and Drums And while the said Prelate going into the sacristy prepared himself to sing the solomne Mass father Staudacter a Jesuit Preacher to the Arch-Duke made a Sermon in Dutch so elegant learned and so fit for that action that it ravisht the affections and applauses of all After Mass which was celebrated with the greatest sollemnity Holstenius stay'd on the last step of the Altar and began the Te Deum which was sung with the same harmony accompany'd by the roaring of above 50. Peices of artillary many Mortar-peices and an infinite number of muskets as likewise with the ringing of the bells The Mass was sayd after the Roman fashion as they do in Saint Peters and all were well satisfy'd with it The day after my Lord Holstenius sent to Rome an account of all that had succeeded The Queen wrote to the Pope and consigned the letter to Holstenius in which giving his Holiness information of that she had done she declared her self his most obedient daughter with expressions of much duty and very great respect These letters with others written by the said Holstenius to the Legates and Nuntii with the advice of all and with the Calculation that the Queen would arrive in Ferrara on the 22. of November on the fifth of the said month were sent by an extraordinary Courier who comming out of Poland past in hast towards Rome In the discourses Holstenius had with the Queen in order to her reconciliation to the Catholique Church he giving a hint that after the profession of faith she should receive the Sacrament of Confirmation and then the most holy Eucharist her Majesty said her desire was to communicate the first time in publique by the hands of his Holiness himself and asking him diverse particulars about confirmation said she heard in that function she might change her name or adde another to it and therefore would gladly to the name of Chrâ—stâ—na adde that of Alessandra in honour of his Holiness Holstenius reply'd the Pope himselfe at her coming to Rome would much better counsell her than any one else The Evening of the day in which the Queen made her profession was solemniz'd with diverse Bonfires of joy the ringing of the bells and roaring of the Canon and with a most noble and most excellent play represented in musique with very sumptuous machins and scenes which succeeded extreamly delightfull The subsequent night they likewise represented in musique a play called Argia a musicall tragicomedy with admirable prospects of scenes and of greatest curiosity The cloaths of the Actors were most noble and most splendid and the musique very exquisite his Highness having neither spar'd paines nor charges to get the best musitians of Jtaly It lasted six whole hours and her Majesty with the rest of the assistants beheld it with great pleasure and attention The other three dayes her Majesty stay'd in Inspruch she was allwayes entertained with vertuous recreations and both the said Playes were reacted since the tast being never orecharg'd while the appetite lasts they saw the Queen and the rest not yet cloy'd with that pleasure The day before their departure appointed on the 8th of December my Lord Holstenius visited Count Raymond Montecuccoli dispatcht from the Emperour not onely to assist at the possession but to waite on her Majesty to Rome and he was by this courteous Cavalier received with geat demonstrations of esteem On the 8th of December in the morning the Arch-Dukes and Don Antonio Pimentel the Spanish Ambassadour together with Holstenius subscribed 4 Copies of the originall of the foresaid Profession confirmed before by her Majesties own hand to the end that one of them should remain with the Queen one in Inspruch in the place of Records one in the Records of the Vatican Library and the other be sent to the Pope The Signature and Subscriptions under the over-written Profession were these Christina I Ferdinand Charles Arch-Duke of Austria have been a witnesse and
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
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
in you Given at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the ring of the Fisher on the 10th day of October 1655. in the First year of our Papacy Natalis Rondinnius And the Queen very reverently received it and read it all presently She with a modest blush shewed the evident signes of the joy in her heart for the fatherly and loving expressions of his Holinesse her Majesty apprehending the forcible sense of the Vicar of Christ to whom she had given long since the liberty of her thoughts and affections and concluded she would by her letters as soon as the could thank his Holiness for it Her Majesty supt privately on the first of November but was waited on by some Ladies who desired that honour for their own satisfaction Among whom was the Princess Mary Claâ—dâ—a Hundbissin of Schaumbourg who presented the water for her hands and the Countess Piccolomini the little Arch-Dutchesses Lady of Honour the Napkin Princess Catherine Countess of Spaur was the Cupbearer and Sewer There were too besides Princess Mary Fuggerin Countess of Weisenhorth the Princess of Trocbenpach the Princesse Mary Brigit Countesse of Artzh the Princess Malaspina and the Princess Anne Teresa of Stoplar Her Majesty was publickly feasted on Tuesday by their Highnesses the Arch Dukes with regal magnificence and sumptuousnesse The Queen sate alone at the upper end of the Table under a cloath of Stare with a very great carpet on the ground The Arch-Dukes were on her right side a little way off from her Majesty but under the same Canopy the Arch-Dutchess alone on her left side o're against the Arch-Duke and Pimentel the Spanish Embassador below the Arch-Dukes The Marquis Lonati and the Lord George Olstein gave the water for her Majesties hands and the Arch-Duke himself presented her the Napkin taking it from the Lord Wâ—itkunight chief Gentleman of his chamber Baron Sigâ—smond of Welsberg Gâ—ntleman of the Chamber to his Highness was her Cupbearer and the Baron of Stakel-bourg likewise Gentleman of his chamber was Sewer Her Majesty accompanied by their Highnesses together with all the Court wâ—nt after dinner to a Palace called D' Ambre without Inspruch where she saw with much delight a great quantity of ancient medalls of gold and silver together with other metalls collected long since by Arch-Duke Ferdinand as likewise many very ancient manuscripts and other fine curiosities conserved in that place In the mean time my Lord Holstenius attended to the ordering of the necessary things for the function of the following day He instructed the Notary the Master of the ceremonies the Priests and other Clerks which were to be assistent as well at the act of Profession as at the solemne Masse Holstenius was to sing to the end that each doing his part the function might go on with order quietness and decorum as it happily succeeded The Queen desired this action might be as pâ—blick as could be and conspicuous to the World and therefore instead of going into the Church by the gallery within she resolved to go thither through the publick street which goes between the one and the other to which purpose in the morning the said street was covered over with boards as well for honour as conveniencie The Queen cloathed in a gown of black silk very plain and without any ornament but a crosse of five faire and rich diamonds at her breast lead by the Arch-Duke was met at the gate of the Church with a solemne Procession of all the Priests and Clerks of the Court and by the two Benedictin Abbots of that Province the one of Tegernsee and the other of Marieberg both with the Miter Rochet and Crosier staffe The one gave her holy water and the other presented her to kisse a very fine Cross of Christal of the Mountain My Lord Holstenius followed after the Abbots who after a low congee to her Majesty and their Highnesses the Arch-Dukes caused one of the Abbots to begin Come O Holy Ghost c. which was sung with most excellent Musick The Queen following the Procession went into the Quire of the Church where a chair was prepared with a kneeling place before it covered with cloath of gold A cushion of the same cloth of gold was laid too upon the last step of the Altar below and a chair of velvet for Holstenius o're against the place of the Epistle Here then Holstenius stood up before the chaire expecting when the Queen the Arch-Dâ—kes and all the Cavaliers would sit down in their places Then he beheld by all with silence and attention began with a loud voice to declare his Commission by the Popâ—s express Brief of the following tenor To our beloved son Luke Holstenius Priest of Hambuâ—g Canon of St. Peters in Rome one of our family and continual attendance at our table Alexander the VIIth Pope BEloved son Greeting and Apostolical Benediction whereas we have received not without the spiritual joy of our mind that Christina the noble Queen of Swedland born of heretical parents and bred up and instructed in heresies illuminated by heavenly light and knowing the way of truth desires to renounce the same heresies and returne by the blessing of God into the bosome of the holy Roman Church we who by our Pastoral function are chiefly obliged to attend unto this that if any Sheep wander from the path of the truth they may be brought back into the way of salvation being very much confident in our Lord of your singular piety prudence zeal of the Catholick relâ—gion and the honour of Gods house of our own free motion sure knowledge mature delâ—beration and out of the fulnesse of our Apostolical power by vertue of these presents do grant and impart to you the free and full power of absolving by our authority in both Courts the said Queen Christina from these heresies all excommunication suspension interdict and other ecclesiastical sentences censures and punishments howsoever incurred by her for the same whether any juridical or extra-juridical abjuration or any at all preâ—â—dâ— but in place of abjuration her Profession of the Catholick Faith according to the Articles long propounded by the Apostolical Sea some healthful pennance being enjoyned her and other things you shall know to be expedient for the good of her soul and we grant and impart the same power of reconciling and receiving the said Queen into the bosome of the holy Roman Church some publick Notary beâ—ng used about the Acts aforesaid we willing to your sole attestation without any any witnesses your subscription onely added full and absolute belief should be given Notwithstanding the Apostolical universal or special constitutions published in general provincial or other Councills the decrees use and stile of the Office of the holy and general inquisition and all other things to the contrary Given at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the Ring of the Fisher on the tenth of October 1655. in the fiâ—st year of our Paâ—pacie
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
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
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
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
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
Majesty having highly been pleased with the dutifull attendance of those Fathers and tasted of the feast went away and repaired some dayes after to the Monastery of Torre de Specchi where her Majesty arriving was received at the gate of the Monastery by the Marquiss Valerius Santa Croce Signior Agostino Maffei and Signior Paola Maccarani the Deputies of the place and Mother Donna Maria Giacinta Cesi the President with many other of the eldest Gentlewomen of that Monastery Her Majesty went up into the Church where while she was at Prayer was Sung a Moletto made on purpose with a sweet and pleasing melody with the Queeen were the Arch-Bishops Colonna and Torregiani Don Antonio della Cueva with the Lady his wife the Prince of St. Gregory the Marquiss Bentivogli the Counts Santinelli the Pages and other Gentlemen of her Majesties train Being come out of the Church she went to see and reverence the habitation of St. Frances of Rome and diverse bodies of the Saints kept there with other reliques Before she arrived at this place she went into a roome in which was prepared a noble collation of sweet-meats those Ladies use to make which much pleased the Queen Having afterwards seen the rest of the remarkablest things she departed highly satisfied with the honours done her by those Gentlewomen who presented her the next Morning with many pretty devises and particularly with most rare flowers of silk surpassing as it were the naturall flowers themselves This Monastery of Torre de Specchi hath a singular priviledg conferred on it by the Popes that the Ladies may goe out when they please and receive others in a favour not granted to any other Nunns On the Vigill of the Epiphany her Majesty returned after dinner to the Church of St. John Lateran aforesaid accompanied by my Lord Farnese his Holinesses Steward and attended by her own retinue where she was present at Vespers after which being followed by the Chapter to the holy staires she went up them on her knees When she was at the top having leave for herself and Madame de Cueva by his Holinesses Breif to goe into the Sancta Sanctorum she was conducted thither and saw our Saviours face and other innumerable reliques Going thence she went into St. Iohns at the great gate and past into the Sacristy where on a fair Altar stood exposed many reliques within many tabernacles which were shewed to her one after the other by two Canons to wit my Lord Antaldi and Angelo Peracciano with others their assistents She saw the Cross of Constantine the Emperour and that of St. Silvester the Pope as likewise the Coape which he used when he consecrated that Church When her Majesty came out of the Sacristy they shewed her the rod of Moses the pastorall of Aaron Arca Foederis and an Altar where St. Iohn Evangelist preached which within is full of reliques the table where our Saviour made his last Supper and instituted the most holy Sacrament She saw too the Altar where St. Peter did celebrate on which none can celebrate but the Pope Going thence she was accompanied by the said Chapter to the gate and returned to the Palace of Farnese On the 7th of January she passing along the great gallery which uniteth the Vatican to the Castle of St. Angelo went to see the said Castle accompanied by the Spanish Ambassadours the Duke of Serranuova and Don Antonio Pimentel my Lord Farnese and Paluzzi Clerk of the Chamber and superintendent generall of the Arms and Fortresses in the Churches Dominions Don Antonio della Cueva her cheif Master of the horse and Cavalier Jacquetti the Marquiss Hippolitus Bentivogli Signior di Lilliecron the Counts Francis Maria and Lodovick Santinelli Gentlemen of her Chamber and other Gentlemen of her Court. At the last grate which does divide the Fortress she was met by the Vice-Governour Count Jerome Gabrielli accompanied by his Principall officers who waited on her all along As soon as she came within sight of the place of Arms where the Souldiers of the Garrison stood in rankes she was welcomed by a volley of shot which was seconded with two hundred tire of Mortar-peices and a hundred of Canon When her Majesty had seen the most curious and remarkable things she was pleased to goe into the Vice-Governours appartament where she had a collation of fifty basons of most exquisite sweet-meats of all sorts each one containing threescore pounds which immediately after her Majesty had tasted a little of the past of pistachos were plundered in a Moment There were most rare wines with lemmon and cinnamon waters of which when her Majesty dranke the Marquiss Rentivogli was her Cup-bearer and the Duke of Terranuova presented her the Napkin This Collation for the plenty and daintines was sutable to the Counts generosity who to his noble birth hath joyned the true experience of military valour Her Majesty was well pleased with this Cavaliers entertainment and highly contended she had seen such a beautifull and regular Fortress returned from thence to her Palace being saluted at her going away first by the Muskets of the squadron aforesaid and afterwards by all the Mortar-peices and Artillerie at her entrance into the Castle The first Court of this Castle is quadrangular and built with much industry in the midst of which is a machine or round mole of great height and largeness This Fabrick is very ancient being built by Elius Adrianus the Emperour and therefore it was alwaies call'd Adrians mole till it was chang'd into the title of St. Angelo by reason the Arck-Angell Michaell was seen on the top of it to put his bloody sword into the scabberd just as St. Gregory accompany'd by the Clergie and people of Rome passed by there to go to St. Peters Pope Urbane the eighth of glorious memory fortify'd it with several regular bulwarks ditches and rampards and divers commodious Fabricks for the Souldiers of the Garrison having besides erected there a store-house for Arms and Artillery In the Tower of this Castle is the old treasurie in which Pope Sixtus Quintus kept his treasure and is never opened being seal'd with the Popes Seale Above there is another treasurie in which the triple Crown of his Holiness is kept which is seen in solemn processions being richly empail'd with Jewels of inestimable value Theâ—e is too the treasurie of monuments where the writings of the holy Church of greatest consequence are kept of which at present Signior Carlo Cartari advocate of the Consistory hath the keeping There is a covered walke from the Vatican to this Castle built by Pope Alexander the sixth and now for the quality of the Scituation and VValls may be said to be one of the best Fortresses of Italy The rest of the time was spent by her Majesty in receiving of visits and other noble entertainments becoming her vertuous prerogatives and especially her great talents in literature This learned Princess had therefore a particular desire to go see the Sapienza
Inspruch to complement the Queen in the name of the Prince of Trent He invites her Majesty to Trent The Queens answer to the Baron of Fermiano The invitation made her in the name of the Duke of Mantoua She is splendidly treated at Trent She resolve to dine at Trent The generosity of the Prince of Trent The description of Lavis The Prince of Trent meets the Queen She alights at the Church She observes the most remarkable things The Prince Complements the Queen The Queen her letter to the Prince of Trent She enters into the state of Venice The Cavaliers of Verona complement Don Antonio Pimentel In Dolce they resolve to go thorough the Countrey of Mantoua My Lord Holstenius gives information to the Legate of Ferrara The Marquiss Andreasi complementeth the Queen in the name of the Duke of Montoua The Duke goes to meet the Queen He waitâ— on her Majesty Who received him with great courtesie The Arch-Dutchesse complementeth the Queen She passeth the Po and is royalty received in Revere The entertainments given to her Majesty by the Duke of Mantoua She eats in publick She departs from Revere with great satisfaction The Nuntii of his Holynesse go to meet the â— Queen She arrives at Figarolo She advanced towards Ferrara A splendid bridge o're the Po. She is met at the gate of Ferrara She alights at the Cathedral being received by the Cardinal Bishop From the Church she goes to the Castle Count Montecuccoli sent by the Queen to Rome The qualities of the Prince of St. Gregory And of Cardinal Pio. The Queens discourse at the Table The description of Ferrara The noble qualities of the Cardinal John Baptist Spada She departs from Ferrara She is received on the confines by the Vice-Legate of Bologna Cardinall Lomellino goes out to meet the Queen Her reception at her entrance into Bologna She visits the Church fine Convent of St. Dominique The honours her Majesty received in Bologna She dines in publick The manner of the said Tilting The description of Bologna The worthy qualities of the Bolognesi The eminent condition of Cardinal Lomellino She departs from Bologna She is met on the Confines by the Vice Legate Romagna She is met by Cardinal Donghi the Bishop of Imola Her reception in Imola The eminent qualityes of Cardinall Donghi She departs from Imola And is met by the Governour of Faenza And afterwards by Cardinall Rossâ—ttâ— the Bishop of the place The honors dâ—ne her Majesty in Faenza She dines in publique The vertuous preparations designed for her Majesty in Faenza The Description of Faenza The qualities of Cardinall Rossetti The meeting she had in Forli The honors done her in Forli She depart from Forli Her reception in Cesena The description of Cesena Her departure from Cesena She is met by the Governour of Rimini She enters Rimini on horseback The vertuous entertainments she had in Rimini The description of Rimini Her departure from Rimini The worthy qualities of Cardinall Acquaviva Legate of Romagna She was met by my Lord the vice-Legal of Pesaro And afterwards by Cardinall Homodei Her reception in Pesaro She dines in publick Her Majesty is highly satisfyed with the demonstrations she receiv'd in Pesaro She departs from Pesaro highly satisfied with the honours she received The description of Pesaro The description of Fano The remarkable qualities of Cardinall Homodei Her Majesties reception by the Governour of Ancona Her reception in Ancona The compositions made in Ancona in honour of her Majesty The Bishop of Ancona visits her Majesty The description of Ancona My Lord Gentile Governour of Loretto meets the Queen The devotion of her Majestie towards the holy house Her arrival at Loretto The Queen makes a present of her Scepter and Crown at Loretto Don Antonia della Cueva arrived at Loretto The Queens letter from Inspruch to his Holiness The description of Loretto She departs from Loretto The description of Recanati The Arch Pio. She is met at Macerata She is complemented by the Ladies Her departure from Macerata She advances to Tolentino She visits the Church of St. Nicholas The description of Tolentino Her reception in Camerino Count Montecuccoli returnes from Rome to her Majesty She departs from Camerino The description of Camerino She arrives at Foligno The scituation of Foligno She goes to Assisi She is met by Cardinall Rondinino She visits the Church of Saint Francis She is royally entertained The quality of some statues which set out and adorned the table She visits the Church of the Angells The qualities of Cardinall Rondinino The description of Assisi She returnes to Foligno She departs towards Spoleto Cardinal Fachenetti meets her She is waited on by the Ladies of the City She goes to the Cathedrall She dines in publique She departs from Spoleto The eminent qualities of Cardinall Fachenetti The description of Spoleto Her reception at Terni The honours done her in Terni The description of Terni Her departure She dines in Otricoli The quality of this Place The Bridge Filice She is met by my Lord Visconte She arrives at Gallese Her reception in Gallese The description of Gallese She lodges in Caprarola The Spanish Ambassadour goes to Caprarola to visit the Queen She is met by the Duke of Bracciano The order of the Cavalcata The honors done her at the Castle of St. Angelo She arrives at St. Peters Her reception in the Church of St. Peter The Majestique ornaments in St. Peters She goes in to the Concistory and kâ—sses the feet of his Holiness She is present at his Holinesses Mass She receives the Sacrament of confirmation She communicates She visits the Church of St. Mary the greater She dines with his Holiness From the Vatican she goes to the Palace Farnese The presents given her by the Pope The Queen visits St. Peters Afterward St. James of the Spaniards Her Majesty visits the Church of Giesu She goes to see the Castle es St. Angelo She sees the Colledge of Sapienza She visits the Monastery of St. Catharine of Sienna And the Church of the Grecians She desires to hold an Academy in her own Palace She sees the Roman Colledge The description of the Roman Colledg which was adorned to receive her The honours done her Majesty She goes to the Colledg of Urbane for the propagation of the Faith The curiosities seen in the said Colledg She goes again to the Roman Colledg The splendid Library of the deceased my Lord Coccino The remarkable things she saw in the Roman Colledg She institutes an Academy in her own Palace The names of the Academians The contents of divers Academies held before her Majesty The Comedy intitled the triumph of piety recited to her Majesty in the Palace of the Prince of Pallestrina The morall contents of the Comedy The Author of the Composition She visits the famous reliques kept in St. Peters She goes to the Church of the Nuns in Campo Martio She goes to the Vineyard of Prince Panfilio The presents made by the said Prince to her Majesty The honours done her Majesty by Prince Panfilio The Queens recreations in the house of the said Prince The eminent qualities of the Princess of Rossano The noble preparation in the Church of Giesu The noble Comedies acted in the Palace of the Prince of Pellestrina The Play acted in the German Colledge Si fece la festa d' Carroselli The Cavalcata of his Holiness to St. Sabina She visits the English Colledge
secret sacristy to reverence the holy veile of our Saviour and the other famous reliques which are kept o're the Altar of the said Chappell Her Majesty saw likewise the famousest records of that most holy Church and being afterwards saluted again with discharging of the Canon Mortar-peices she went in her litter to the Palace of the Signior Giacobilli appointed for her lodging where with her great and royall affability she kindly received the dutifull tribute paid devoutly to her by the Ladies who there were very numerous and splendidly attir'd and waited on her Majesty to her Chamber The said palace was furnisht with fine and rich tapistries and on the top of the staires was erected a fair lodg with a prospect enrich't with many Figures Mottos and Inscriptions In the mean time the table was furnish't with transparent workes of jellys and statues of Sugar which were so well design'd so mysterious and remarkable that they gave both pleasant nourishment to the body and mind Her Majesty din'd in publique with the Cardinall Signior Marcello Rondinini the Cardinalls Brother being her Cupbearer and Count Francis de gli Odoli Count Angelos Sonne the noble Cavalier of Perugâ—a her Sewer and Count Sforza Fiumi of Assisi presenting the napkin To express the dainty meats and exquisite feast it may suffice to say they had what the earth the air and the waters could afford that was excellent good and pretious While her Majesty was at table the Nuntij the Spanish Ambassadour with the rest of the great Cavaliers and eminent Courtiers were splendidly feasted in the Convent of Saint Francis where ten appartaments richly furnish't were prepared When dinner was ended her Majesty retir'd into her Chamber and calling for my Lord Holstenius who was then return'd from Saint Francis his convent told him she desired to see once again one by one the triumphs or statues of Sugar with which they had adorned the table which were brought in all hast to her Majesty who admired the workmans invention and wit And since they were so liked by her who with her refin'd understanding can discerne in each thing what is beautifull and good it will not peradventure be displeasing to the reader to have a short description of it without prejudicing other feasts where tables set out in this manner we omitted to describe as a thing too long and tedious peradventure In one were represented the four Cardinall vertues which supported in the right hand on a Pillar adorned with embossed works a royall Crown at the corners of which Pillar sate four boyes each holding up a Crown and a Scepter and before the said Pillar were four meddalls adorned with embossed works with Chaplets of gold In another on a round Pillar the Goddess Pallas who giving her spear and helmet to a boy stood presenting with her right hand in a reverent posture a Crown to the Queen seeming to yeild to her the superiority in the Sciences The said Pillar was adorned with embossed works covered with gold among which were distributed four Harpies of counterfeit brass They saw afterwards a square pedestall adorned with gilt medalls in embossed works and Time lying along on which in a little Pillar stood Fame who holding in her left hand a trumpet held with the right o're her head a meddall representing the Queen She held Time bound with a chain of gold who covered with his robe many meddalls of Heros and being so bound seem'd subject to the fame of her Majesty At the corners of the pedestall four flowers sprowted up in the forme of a Pinetree which budded our of feillage worke of gold whose artificiall posture shew'd art had emulated nature In the midst of the front of the pillar was a meddal of the colour of a rose limn'd with gold with ornaments about it of severall flowers distributed with proportionable simmetry Then a clow'd was discover'd in another all resplendent with gold on which was extended the Chariot of the Sunne which drawn by four horses was guided by Apollo who carried in his right hand a bundle of gilt eares of corn or'e which a little Angell supported a Crown of gold and with the left hand held the reyns of the horses finely barded with ribbands of gold and silver a little boy going before them in the air with a torch in his hand denoting the dawning of the day There was besides another round Pillar on which a silver cliffe squezed his locks wreathed with lawrell the extremity of the Figure ending in a rock on which grew a palm tree dilating it's boughs over it and was with the left hand embraced by the same the right hand pointing to the herbes it produces for the service of Kings About the Pillar were carved four little ones where were as many little boyes with Coronets of Cedar within which they discovered the leaves of the flowers sustained by the round Pillar four Harpies of brass with gilt Spanish olives and a Chaplet of gold in their hands presenting each a dish of Pomegranates which afterwards was intermixed with Pine-apple kernells in a little guilded Chaplet joyn'd to the feillage work of other fruites the earth does produce with carvings adorned with gold When her Majesty had seen and attentively gaz'd on the said triumphs she said one of them was wanting which the Cardinall had sent to my Lord Sarvantij one of the Masters of the ceremonies to his Holiness who lodged without the palace but her Majesty desiring to see it it was quickly brought to her This represented Immortality which on a square Pillar adorned with antique faces of gold held up with her hands o're her head a gilt circle within which was a meddall with the Picture of her Majesty as one that had no confines but what were assigned her by eternity Three boyes stood distributed on the brims of the dish one of which representing painting on a table of gold made her Picture with the pensill the other signifying sculpture carv'd her in marble and the third denoting history with the pen made characters on a book all three shewing joyntly they were busie in perpetuating the name of her Majesty Among them were three little vases adorn'd with antique faces cover'd over with gold which held gilt eares of corn and in the space between the boyes and the vases flowers of Sugar budded forth of admirable workmanship all resting on candid Sugar which ended in a very fine Chaplet The Queen took great pleasure in beholding these rare peices not because they contained her prayses whose modesty and generosity contemnes all applause and Commendation but onely for the invention and excellency of the workmanship These things being ended her Majesty accompanied by the Cardinall went to visit the Church of the Angells and permitting not his Eminence to go farther it being then late went into her litter and advanced towards Foligno being very well satisfied in having beheld that famous devotion and known the civility and eminent