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A43928	The history of the intrigues & gallantries of Christina, Queen of Sweden, and of her court whilst she was at Rome faithfully render'd into English from the French original.; Histoire des intrigues galantes de la reine Christine de Suède et de sa cour, pendant son séjour à Rome. English	Franckenstein, Christian Gottfried, 1661-1717.; Hollingworth, Philip.	1697 (1697)	Wing H2164; ESTC R4691	131,498	344

was Gentleman of the Chamber to her Majesty He was Young and well Made extraordinary Handsome and had a Bon Grace in all that he did But he was an universal Lover and manag'd an Amour like a Roman Hero It was only Languishing and Sighs that express'd his Flame at the first and he was diligent both Night and day to make her see and understand it She gave him some Hopes which made it stronger which were fully to be explain'd by the Marriage Bed But however the Queen had no inclination to give the poor Gentleman any thing though he had serv'd her as a Page from his Youth and her Majesty had bestow'd Favours upon others who had not merited so much as himself Her Caprice cross'd this Amour but his Patience and Assiduity gain'd his Mistresses Heart insomuch that she gave him to understand that if he was not Happy it would be his own fault But however these fair hopes were of no long continuance for the Count of Warwick came in to Traverse 'em by declaring himself a Lover and was receiv'd with little Ceremony He was an English Lord of high Birth Son to the Earl of Northumberland but being a younger Bro●●er of that Illustrious House which were Persecuted for their Loyalty to their King during the Troubles of England rais'd by Cromwel and the Parliament he was oblig'd to seek his Fortune in Foreign Courts and was at last recommended to the Queen who made him Major Domo after the Death of the Marquis Del Monte. The Earl of Northumberland died at Florence where both himself and Family were Maintain'd by the Bounty of the Grand Duke Count Warwick was of a slender Stature and had an Air of Grandeur which shewed who he was His Complexion was very delicate but his Health seem'd to be ruin'd by the paleness of his Face whether it came from his Temperament or Debaucheries As to the rest his Carriage was the most agreeable in the World and if his Health had been perfectly entire he had been one of the finest Gentlemen in Italy The Marquiss de Mala-Spina being allarmed at so redoubtable a Rival did not know what to do daring neither to conceal nor publish it because of the Antipathy of the Queen against him But his good Genius inspir'd him to go to a Lady of Quality who was Married to a Roman Lord Captain of a Troop of Light-Horse in the Pope's Guards called the Marquiss Cavallieri his Lady being Sister to Count Warwick He entreated her to do him the Favour to represent to her Brother that his Intention in addressing himself to Jovannina being not to Marry her he would not cross a Passion which tended to that Holy Sacrament The Marchioness readily undertook it for fear her Brother should fall into any Trouble in the Queens Service and caus'd him to desist so that the Marquiss was quickly at Repose on that side Jovannina having lost Count Warwick treated the Marquiss much better for fear he should escape again and these two Lovers manag'd their Interests so well that the Maid by the Ascendant she had over the Queen brought her to consent that the Marquiss should make Love to her in the way of Marriage But Cardinal Azzolini who was afraid the Queen would execute this Project and spend as much Money upon her as she had done upon Octavia her Elder Sister turn'd the Queen against it and broke all the Measures of these poor Lovers and at last to comfort her said The Marquis was impotent and no way fit for Marriage The poor Girl afflicted with so many Crosses fell sick and must take the Air again to dissipate her Sorrows And she had scarce begun to take Breath when a certain Italian Abbot of some Birth but little Merit and full of Vanity thought it a seasonable time to perswade her to hear of a Passion which he begun to have for her To this purpose he employ'd a Woman who was one of the Queens Guardrobe who had not been Cruel in her Youth and was very proper to tie an Amorous Noose And as she had an Entrance into the Appartment of the Maids and some part of their Confidence it was easie for her to perswade Jovannina to have some Complaisance for the Abbot Vannini the same Person that had already dishonoured Bandiere's Daughter This Maid being dejected at the ill success of her Amours and the Disgrace of being cast off by so many Lovers embrac'd the Motion upon Condition that her Mother approv'd it The good Mother who liv'd upon nothing but the Wages of the Daughter and had other Children besides and an Husband to maintain yielded to the Temptation of a Thousand Crowns which he gave her and deliver'd up her Daughter to this Villainous Baboon whom Vanity and the Difficulty of it stir'd up to so hard an Enterprise To come to him she counterfeited her self sick once more and the Queen out of Complaisance sent her to Albani where not to lengthen out the Story the Abbot was satisfied After fifteen or twenty Days absence she return'd to Rome and the Abbot who found her a delicate Morsel invented a way to introduce himself into the Queens Palace by means of his Mistresses Confidents His Liberalities gave him Entrance every where and surmounted all Obstacles but he could not do his Business so ●●●retly but that it was found out by the Marquiss Del Monte for he surpriz'd the Lovers in the very flagrant Delight and threatned to destroy them if he did not come in for a share And as he was Almighty with the Queen so he had a Talent to make himself fear'd Thus he obtain'd his Wishes and the Abbot always paid the Expence of the Feast But after all these Pleasures poor Jovannina found her self with Child which affrighted her and made her perfectly desolate ànd her Mother became the most sorrowful of all Women but the Queens Goodness supply'd all Defects and she had Remedies given her to take it away but they had so ill success that she died and was interr'd in the Habit of a Carmelite Crown'd and set round with Flowers for a mark of her Virginity The Queen wept as much as if she had been a Relation so good was this Princess and so full of Tenderness for her Domesticks that she would have left them all Rich at her Death if they would have permitted her to do it 'T is Time that wipes away Tears and Her Majesty comforted her self for the loss of Jovannima by 〈◊〉 Acquisition of another call'd Georgina who surpass'd her in all things but was the innocent cause of her Death as shall be related afterwards At this time the Duke of Mantua being come to Rome the Queen did him so great Honours as none ever received from her before and the Duke on his side would not be behind her in Civility but at last the Ceremonies abated both of one and the other side The Queen was over joy'd that a Sovereign Prince came to visit her for

THE HISTORY OF THE Intrigues Gallantries OF CHRISTINA Queen of Sweden AND Of her COURT whilst she was at ROME Faithfully Render'd into English from the French Original LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1697. To his Excellency CHARLES EARL OF Dorset and Middlesex One of the Lords Justices for the Administration of the Government during the King's Absence Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter c. My LORD THE Queen of Sweden who travell'd so much and spoke so many Languages being now the Subject of this present History implores your Lordship's Protection having but newly learn'd to speak English She comes not now as formerly in the Pomp and Splendor of a Crown but to render an Account of her Actions which in her Life-time made so mighty a noise in the World and which tho' they cannot be called altogether Innocent are yet very diverting and will I question not afford a great deal of Pleasure and Delight to the Reader there being no Tragedy in her whole Life except that of the Murder of the Marquis Monaldeschi She always maintain'd the Majesty of a Queen both in her Person and Character to the highest Degree and her Wit and Parts were so very extraordinary that they raised the Admiration of all Her Inclinations were nice and curious and her Passions strong and violent but the Vanity and Inconstancy of her Temper would not suffer them to endure long and she had none of any Continuance except that which she had for Chymistry which lasted even to her dying Day The great Opinion she had conceived of her own Abilities in all things did very much contribute to the Cheat she put upon her self in this Affair and caus'd her to be led by those wandring Experimentators who being deceiv'd themselves make no scruple to deceive others The Author has handled them very severely and some of them no less than they deserve and especially such as those the Queen of Sweden generally met with In short as she was a Princess of a wonderful mixture and strange variety there is something to be found in every turn of her Actions so great and surprizing that there needs more than a common Understanding to make a right Judgment concerning her She cannot therefore be recommended to a fitter Hand than your Lordship's not only in regard of the Greatness of your Descent and Original but of your Candor and good Humour together with the Excellency of your Parts and that Exactness of Judgment for which you are so justly celebrated The Author of this History spends a great deal of time in describing the Persons that compos'd her Court and their Adventures are so interwoven with the Queens Affairs that he could not avoid it but both the Characters and Adventures are so pleasant that they make a sufficient Recompence and indeed the History would not have been compleat without it They are fill'd up with a great number of Delightful Intrigues and odd Circumstances and most of the Accidents are so entertaining that I perswade my self that your Lordship who is so Communicative and Generous upon all Occasions will permit me to make use of so great a Name to recommend this Translation to them who cannot with your Lordship discern the Beauties of the Original and will pardon the Ambition with which I subscribe my self My LORD Your Lordship 's Most Dutiful and Obedient Servant Phil. Hollingworth TO THE READER A French Abbot of great Merit and Understanding returning from Rome with the French Cardinals from the Election of Innocent XII shewed me some curious Manuscripts which he had obtain'd during his stay in Italy and among others this of the Intrigues and Gallantries of Christina Queen of Sweden and her Court while she staid at Rome I presently became of his Opinion and judg'd them worthy of the Press believing it would be a pleasure to the Publick to communicate the particular Circumstances of the Life of this incomparable Queen which none till this present time have had any knowledge of If this Work be received well as I hope it will I will afterward Print the Maxims and Sentences of this Queen which have the force and Spirit of those of the Duke de Rochefoucaults as also the Conclaves of the last Popes differing very much from those already Printed and other curious Munuscripts which do well deserve to appear in Publick Though I have not seen this Work but in the French Language yet the Gentleman who gave it me assures me that the Original was Italian and found among other Papers of the Author who died at Rome a little before the Abbot who brought it came from thence One may easily see that it is nothing but a Translation by many Words an● improper Phrases which are not French but I hope the Reader will have the Goodness to excuse it and content himself with the Truth seeing he may be sure to find it here without the least Disguise or Deceit More time will be requisite to finish the other Manuscripts which are preparing and will be published quickly after this Work whose Author was one of Queen Christina's Officers and of sufficient Esteem and Credit with her to have had a share in her Secrets It will be seen clearly enough in the reading of the History though he endeavours to persuade us that he was never in her Service Flattery has no part in his Writing as may be found by his Complaints against Cardinal Azzolini and oftentimes against the Queen her self who committed all to his Eminence without leaving any thing for her Domesticks to do And it may be seen that the Affection which he has for his Mistress makes him often spare her without revealing all those ill things which he very well knew and could easily have given an Account of THE HISTORY OF THE Intrigues and Gallantries OF CHRISTINA Queen of SWEDEN and of her Court whilst she was at ROME ROME which is the Centre of Religion is also the Theatre of the finest Comedies in the World And there did Queen Christina behave her self with so agreeable a Demeanor that I believe it will very much contribute to the Diversion of the Publick without shocking the Majesty she always upheld if I give an Idea or Description of her particular Actions and to her Heroick ones add certain little Enjoyments which are not to be accounted altogether ill in a Person who had quitted a Throne for a private Life that she might give her self a little more liberty The Great Ones have their Frailties as well as the less and when we consider them only in the Splendor wherewith they are surrounded Vice passes oftentimes for Vertue But when we bring them to a narrower Examination we shall easily discover those great Passions which make them set all their Engines at work to satisfie them History which flatters not renders Justice to all because she speaks nothing but what Truth suggests 'T is Truth which brings all things to

Cardinal Azzolini for Arbitrator betwixt them and he counselled the Duke to restore them but he was Obstinate and would keep them The Queen came to understand it by means of the Marquiss her Spy who lov'd to fish in troubled Waters She Laugh'd and diverted her self with their Dispute without obliging either of them to desist from their Pretentions At last comes a Jew and ended the Strife desiring the Duke to restore him the Damas which he prov'd to be his own or to pay him for the Hire of it The Duke restor'd him the Damas before the Count and neither of them had it So the Count lost both his Damas and the favour of his Lady So that we see Interest is sometimes stronger than Love The Dutchess expected that at his return from Sueden and the Low-Countries the Count would have brought her some piece of Holland or some fine Flanders-Lace But he gave her nothing but Gugaws small works of Ivory and some other things made at N●remburgh which though artificially done were nevertheless but of small Value no such great matter of mingling Blood as they do in France and Germany At last the Business was made up by Donua Maria Candida a Religious of St. Cecily and the Abbot de Cabannes Gentleman to Cardinal Altieri It is Suprizing that at a time when the Queen her self liv'd upon Alms or a Pension which the Pope allow'd her her Rents not coming from Sueden because of the War that Cardinal Azzolini should find Ten Thousand Crowns in ready Money to Marry Octavia to the Marquiss Caponi This she had without reckoning what she got from the Queen both before and after this Marriage which amounted to more than double the Sum. Fortune was very favourable to this Girl seeing that they who would otherwise have ruin'd it contributed so much the more to her Preferment So poor Count Vasenau on which Side soever he turn'd him was always Cross'd Nor are we yet at the end of his Misfortunes For Prince Radzevil Ambassador of Poland arriv'd at Rome in the Year 1680 and visited the Queen in form And Madam the Ambassadress went also to see the Queen who gave her a favourable Reception not only in quality of Ambassadress but as one of the Family of the King of Poland Count Vasenau serv'd as Ambassador and she vigorously recommended him to the Queen The Ambassador who was willing to serve the Count also open'd a way to appropriate to him certain Pensions in the Realm of Naples which belong'd to the Jagellons who Reigned so long in Poland of whose Family Count Vasenau was the last The Queen listned to this Overture and writ into Spain to the Duke de Medina Celi first Minister to the Catholick King who was Sovereign of the Realm of Naples She wrote also to the Marquiss Don Velos Vice Roy of Naples and every thing prepared to favour the Count if her Vanity and Inconstancy had not spoil'd all Sometimes she would accept this Obligation from the Spaniards and sometimes she would not have it said she should have begg'd their Favour being perswaded they would find some sly trick or other not to keep their Words as indeed they did when they had penetrated the Queen's Intentions And so Count Vasenau was frustrated of his fine hopes Sometime after it happen'd that the Queen would raise the Marquiss Del Monte to the Charge of Great Master of her Horse and gave him the Title of Excellence pretending this way to Recompence him for the Services he had done her in Sueden whither he had accompanied her in her last Voyage and whither he went afterwards upon the Queen's Business but the Ambassadors and Cardinals except Azzolini refus'd to give it him The Queen hop'd that at least the Duke of Poli would obey her Will but though he was but a poor Lord and drew great Subsidies out of the Queen's House he chose rather to quit her Service than stoop to so mean a thing But the Marquiss Del Monte did not loose it for besides the Charge of great Master he was made Major Domo of the Queen's House and had the profit of both Charges As for Count Vasenau he not only gave him the Title of Excellence without Scruple but would likewise have given him that of Highness if they would have let him alone Upon this the Marquiss look'd upon him with a better Eye and protested he would serve him upon all Occasions The Queen also made him more than ordinary Caresses because of his Obedience and ordered him a Coach for himself all alone augmenting the number of his Liveries which were not much different from the Queen's an Honour the Queen did to no body but himself as being one of her own Family The Count now finding himself a little at Repose and more Honour'd than before fell into an amorous Intrigue being content to sweeten his Misfortunes with Madam Beauregard whom he saw every day But then he left her in the Lurch and bestow'd all his Courtship upon a new Mistress which he had without going out of Langara It was the Dutchess of Salviati with whom he was Smitten and she was of the first Quality and Allied to the greatest Houses in Rome She was a very Handsome Person and when you look upon her altogether she was not more agreeable in Beauty than in a sprightly and charming Wit for she had great Accomplishments in Conversation and you would never be weary with hearing her Discourse for she reasoned with a great deal of Exactness and Judgment 'T is true she was subject to some little Discontents which took her now and then but that did not hinder her in her Lucid Intervals from being brisk and sparkling and to Charm all those which had the happiness to approach her This I say because she communicated her self only to Persons of her own Genius who knew how to bear her Conversation but besides they must have the gift of managing her for she had a Briskness that was able to dash even those of the best Assurance She was Sister to Don Frederick Scorza now Duke of Caesarini by his Wife's Title Count Vasenau found a way to insinuate himself by honest means For she had a young Son who was a Comely Youth and of great Hope but because he had not Travell'd the Count to make him an Accomplish'd Prince instructed him in many things shewing him how to Tread well and take upon him an Air of Greatness conformable to his Birth and to appear Gallant in the Streets During the whole Carnaval he never left the young Lord and at the same time the Dutchess went Masqued in the Concourse in a Magnificent Chair with those of her Family and Domesticks The young Prince and the Count were always at the sides of them with Masks on mounted upon excellent Barbs which they made to wheel and Prance with a Grace As for the Duke her Husband he is a Solitary Prince and does not love to appear in Publick The