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A62355	Italy in its original glory, ruine, and revival being an exact survey of the whole geography and history of that famous country, with the adjacent islands of Sicily, Malta, &c. : and whatever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of the world) and all those towns and territories mentioned in antient and modern authors / translated out of the originals for general satisfaction, by Edmund Warcupp, Esquire.	Schottus, Franciscus, 1548-1622.; Warcupp, Edmund.	1660 (1660)	Wing S891; ESTC R14486	337,341	355

for the Markets and to walk in one for the Nobility and another for the Marchants In the bigger whereof stands a Stately Fountain with a Statue representing Verona with a Kingly Diadem at her Feet The most beautifull River Adice runs by Verona which comes just from the Alpes of Trint and sends two arms through the Streets of the City for its greater conveniency by which River they convey to Verona divers Merchandices from Germany and Venice There are many Mills within and without the City and other Edifices for the Mecanicks They have four Bridges over the Adice all erected with excellent artifice and beauty one whereof hath two spatious Arches which give a Noble prospect Europe scarce affording any more polite and truer built This City abounds with all things necessary Their fruits are all delicious but the Figs Bardolini exceed all others It hath Fish very sweet from the Lake Garda Good Meat from the excellent Pasture exquisite Wines from the Hills good Corn from the Vales and good health from the Ayr though somewhat piercing The Merchandize of Cloth and Silk mantains above 20000. Handicrafts-men Verona was under the Etrurians the Euganei the Heneti the French and the Romans with whom it was confederated and had voices in the ballottinges of Rome The Romans never sent a Colony into Verona but it was ascribed to the Tribu Poblilia and the Veronians have had many Magistrates in Rome Heretofore 4. Deputies had the clear and mixt government of this City as the Roman Consuls which 4. were created by the Citizens together with the other Magistrates whereof they yet retein some shadow by having Consuls the wise men the Counsel of twelve the hundred and twenty and the Prefect of the Merchants Afterwards the Roman Empire declining Verona became under the Command of certain barbarous Tyrants but they being driven out by the Ostragoths and they by the Longobards who were Lords of it 200. yeers it was finally freed from their Signory and fell into the power of the successors of Charles the great that is of Pipin and Berengarius and others who there made the Seat of their Empire as Albano King of the Longobardi had done formerly In the Reign of Ottone the First it again recovered its Liberty but discords arising among the Citizens it was opprest by the Tyranny of Ezzelino and the Scaligiri it s own Citizens who Lorded it for 200. yeers Last of all being also opprest by others it voluntarily rendred it self to the power of the Venetians who in those daies were esteemed the Justest of Lords It was converted to the Christian Faith by Euperius commissionated to preach there from Saint Peetre It had thirty six Bishops Saints with S. Zenone its Protector to whom Pipin Son of Charles the great dedicated a Church with twelve pounds of gold for yeerly revenue The greater Church is a most noble one and rich with a Chapter of Canons of much authority In the Church of S. Anastassia is a fayr Chapel of Giano Fresco a Genouai Captain filled with Marble Statues and his own effigies The people of Verona are pious and have alwaies had good Bishops in particular lately Augustin Falerio a most upright Prelate and illustrious Cardinal as he was ever accounted by the most holy Fathers and Docters of the Chvrch. Nor will we forget Nicolo Hormanetto Bishop of Padoua nor Giberto who was the reformer of many Churches the first of whom brought into that Province Carlo Borromeo Doctor and Head of all the holy men and the most shining Star of the College of Cardinals Nor that the Churches of Verona before the Conncel of Trent were reformed into that order they still observe They give divine honors to Lucius the third Pope who going to Verona there to call a Council passed into a better Life and was there interred in the great Church whence in Verona was created Urban the third his Successor Verona is well peopled and hath many noble Families and hath produced signal Men in all exercises It had some Consuls in Rome It hath had many holy men and many blessed among which is famous San Pietro the Martyr of the Preaching order buried in Milan born in the Street of S. Stefano in Verona where at present may be seen the house of his Nativity The Veronians have sharp wits and are much inclined to Learning which hath occasioned that it in every Age hath brought forth Men of excellent esteem in all sciences They were Veronians that have their five Statues set upon the publick Palace So also was the learned Scaliger for whose sake and his Family i Signori della Scala is erected in the heart of the City a Stately Marble Tomb encompassed with Iron work resembling a Ladder which that name implies It hath afforded some Women too so well read in the Greek and Latin tongue and the Sciences that they have held disputes with many learned Men among others Isotta Nogarola was glorious it hath one Porphyre Tomb of a King of the Goths In summ Verona possesseth all those things that may render a Citty perfect and its Citizens happy So that t is no wonder that many Emperors induced by the beauty of the place spent some Moneths of the yeer there as we read in the codicils of Justinian and Theodosius and that Alboino first King of the Longobards and Pepin Son of Charls the Great and Berengarius with other Kings of Italy selected it for their own Residences and to the end no ornament might be wanting instituted an Academy for good Letters and Study of humanity in the house of the Signori Bevilacque whereof Cota a good Poet of our times saies well thus Verona qui te viderit non amarit protinus amore perditissimo is credo se ipsum non amat caretque amandi sensibus tollit omnes gratias The Territory of VERONA THe Territory of Verona in our times is about 80. Miles large from the Confines of Torbolo a Castle of Trent towards the South to the Polesene of Rovigo and from the Eastern part from the confines of Vicentia to them of Brescia which are towards the North 46. Miles and 15. miles towards South-East where it confines with the Padouan t is 30. miles long a fertile plain towards the Northwest it hath 25. miles of mountainous Countrey Towards South and by East thirty Mils to the Ferrarian or Mantouan confines of most fertile Countreys being no less pleasant than fruitfull of whatever can be desired It hath Mountains Hills Woods diverse navigable Rivers clear fountains oyl good Corn good Wine Hemp and great plenty of Fruit and Trees bearing Apples more sweet fresh and of longer keeping than any other Country It hath Fowl and Flesh of all sorts divers sorts of Stone and Chalk Villages with fair Fabricks and foundations of antient Towers In sum it may well be called as fair and happy a Territory as any other and more than some are Going out of the Gate Vescovato

weigh in qualified persons all their Actions all their words all their Vestments and habits to their very feet and so the Bridegroom praising his Spouse in the Canticles sets down as a great concern that having fair shoes she walked graciously Tertullian in his Book of the habits of women puts a difference between Culto Neatness and Ornamento Ornament saying that neatness consists in the quality of the Vests as of Gold Silver and the like habiliments but that Ornament consists in the disposition of the parts of that body which wears it Then the Roman Bishops who rconcile and make Peace by way of their Letters and Ministers to all Nations to the great astonishment of all have obtained and pursued the one and the other of the aforenamed parts that is to say Neatness and Ornament Furthermore the sign of the Cross is made on the forehead and Breasts of the faithfull to the end that as Augustine saith upon the 30th Psalm they may not fear to confess the faith and having overcome the Devil they may carry the Banner of their Victory in their forehead therefore also is the same signe worne upon the feet of the Pope that he by that sign may be directed in that good way through which he is to lead all the People of God thereby to shew unto the Pope that to him was given this holy priviledge to be our guide by means of the Cross wherein saith Saint Austin in the 10th Sermon de Sanctis Tom 10 are contained all the Mysteries and all the Sacraments he fortifies as we may say his feet with the Cross to the end that he shewing the way and we walking in it none may wander from good thoughts It may also be said that the Pope bears a Cross upon his feet that in all persecutions and dangers all his people may recur securely to his Feet where remedy may be had to overcome the difficulties and doctrine to oppresse heresies if need require as t is written in Deutronomy at the 33d Chapter Qui appropinquat pedibus accepit de doctrina ejus Weighing all which considerations with their foundation in the passion of Christ very rationally have the Popes placed this signe upon their feet to evidence these mysterious significations Which is so antient and firm that in the old Images we see no Pope drawn or carved who hath not also the cross upon his Feet from which considerations it appears manifestly that the perverse and wicked Hereticks of our times are in a great error for expressing their dislike of the Popes wearing a Cross upon his feet saying that t is an undervaluation and want of due reverence payed to the Cross. For answer whereunto by their favour Is it not true that as Cirillus in 3. Tomo contra Julianum saies the old usage was to paint Crosses on the entrances into houses and that as Nazianzenus in his oration against the same saies on the garments of the Souldiers were signed Crosses come from heaven and that the Church to succor dying persons with spiritual help used to mark their feet with the signe of the Cross and that t was usual to mark the bodies of beasts with the Cross as saies Sainctus Severus de Morbibus bono and San Chrysostome in his demonstration Quod Deus sit homo Did they not mark the houses the publick places the Vests the Armories and finally divers other usual things with the Cross as Leoncio Cipriottio against the Jews declares to the end that in every place and in every action we may rub up our drowsie memories with the passion of Christ our Lord And shall we afterwards say that it expresseth little reverence to the Cross in placing it upon the feet of Christs Vicar by which we not only are minded of the passion of our Saviour when we behold it but intend that thereby is signified that we ought not alone to submit to the Cross and tread down all worldly passions which to the purpose are expressed in Scripture with the name of feet but also for the Love of the passion of Christ to esteem at nought what ever happens under the Moon The which cannot be so well signified by placing the Cross in any other places but on the Feet of the Pope to kiss which all the faithfull strivingly run together GIOVANNI STEPHANO to the purpose of the Exaltation of the Pope speaks after this manner The Reason wherefore they carry his Holiness upon Mens Shoulders T Is not from the purpose to say somewhat of the Lifting up of the Pope since that all old Authors when they speak of the Creation of any King or Emperour say that he was elevated and it may be that Claudianus speaks to this sense Sed mox cum solita miles te voce levasset Nor was this the custom of the Barbarous Nations only but even of the Romans themselves who having chosen any One for their Emperor lifted him on high and carryed him upon their Shoulders so saies Ammianus Marcellinus in his 22 book speaking of Julianus made Emperor by the Souldiers of France so sets forth Cornelius Tacitus in his 20 book and the same likewise speaks Cassiodorus of the Goths in his 20th Book Variacum Epist. 31. This custom Adon of Vienna manifests in the sons of Clotharus Julianus Capitolinus speaking of the Giordani and Herodian in his seventh book treating of the same In which time they did not only exalt the Roman Princes as aforesaid and Princes of other Nations but likewise the praefects of the City whom to honour the more they usually drew up and down the streets in a Caroach with an officer going before who proclaimed that the praefect came and this is clearly demonstrated by Siniachus in his first book Cassiodorus in his 6th from 24. But the Roman Bishops who from God have chief authority over the eternal way for demonstration of their dignity were wont to be conveighed through the City in a certain Chariot honestly or meanly clothed as Ammianus Marcellinus in his 27th book avers in his conceipt of Damascus and Urcisinus to this point in that time when Pretestatus put on the Pretesta which was a Robe the chief Magistrate of Rome wore when they sate in Majesty being then designed Consul he preposed the Bishoprick of the Christians to the Consulship of the Roman people and was wont to say to San Damascus the Pope as San Girolamus also relates in his Epistle to Pammacchius make me Bishop of Rome and I will soon make my self a Christian from which words we may comprehend that even in those daies the Pontifical dignity moved the minds of the principal and greatest persons being that the Consulacy was a dignity to which all others gave place as in more Epistles Cassiodorus shews in the 10th book and Protestatus so he might have been high Bishop of the Christians would not only have deserted his old false Religion but also Consulship That it was the manner of the antient Priests

say that Charles the great was consecrated Emperor they also by it understand he was Crowned whence we may draw that the Coronation of the Pope had its rise in long since past times since that in the yeer 683. under Agathone the first and Benedict the second was raised the custome of giving moneys at the coronation of the Pope and of expecting the authority of the Emperor Eugenius the second was crowned the 22d of May in the yeer 824. Benedict in the yeer 855 Formosus the first in 891. But after Clement which happened in anno 1044. all succeeding Popes were crowned as Panuinus observes in such a manner as by it from that time forwards the Prophecy of Isaiah in the sixty first Chapter may be well known to be fulfilled where he saies as our English Translation renders it For he hath clothed me with the garments of Salvatio he hath covered me with the Robe of Righteousnesse as a Bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments The Italian saies they meaning the Priests are crowned as Bridegroom after that the Pope is elevated to this supremedignity he wears the garments of eternal peace and a Crown upon his head This is that Son of Eliachim spoken of from God by Isaiah the Prophet in the 22d Chapter to whom even at that time God promised the Robe the Crown and the Key as you may read in the 20. 21 22 23 and 24. verses of that Chapter and so forwards The Crown is an Ensigne of Empire the Robe is a signe of familiar government the which things are found in their excellency in our Pope So in the 14th Chapter of the Revelation of Saint John at the 14th verse t is said that Christ named the Son of man appeared sitting on a white cloud adorned with a golden Crown upon his head And in the 19th of the Revelations about the 11th verse t is said that the same Word of God appeared upon a white horse with many Regal Crowns upon his head and all his Friends as may be read in the subsequent verses For this occasion principally were these significations by Crowns to wit that Christ through his Wisdom signified by the figure of a Crown of Gold hath obtained victory over all Creatures and subjected them to his Dominion So likewise the Roman Bishop who is ouer all Nations who hath brought all the People under his authority by the consignation and power of God deservedly puts on the covering of his head three Crowns thereby demonstrating that in glory Authority and great works he surpasseth all the other Kings and Princes of the world After so many fore-passed Popes Paulus the second created in the yeer 8465. of the noble Venetian Family Barbi as he was of a fair aspect and great Spirit so he took great care to adorn the papal Mitre with pretious Jewels and curious workmanship Lastly let us advertise the Reader that in those breifs written by Caesar Costni in the third chapter of the first book of his various doubts deceives himself where he would maintain that the Popes bearing a Mitre with three Crowns proceeds from those mysterious significations by him alleaged when indeed there is no necessity of them and let thus much suffice Of the holy yeer of Jubile which is celebrated in ROME every twenty fifth year The Narration of P. M. GIROLAMO da CAPUGNANO of the preaching Order Extracted from the Book of the Holy Yeer CHAP. XII GOD granted to the Jewes divine benefits indeed whereupon afterwards that Nation boasted saying That his divine Majesty had not treated other People after that manner But those graces which the Church our Mother hath received from the goodness of God do far surpass and exceed the Benefits bestowed upon the Hebrew People For that the Lord that she might be clean and adorned in his sight gave the blood of his only Son to wash her and the Treasure of his Wisdome to beautifie her Among the other benefits conferred on the Hebrew Synagogue that of the yeer of Jubile was most excellent called most holy for that it was the yeer of remission and of the commencement of all things which the Omnipotent God ordained to be from 50 to 50 yeers The like grace being due to our Church the Spouse of Christ though with a different end for that the Synagogue attended only to temporal affairs and the holy Church to spirituals singly by divine disposition she thought convenient to ordain also the yeer of Jubile though at first only from 100. yeers to 100. yeers perhaps to draw to good use the antient diabolick custom of the celebration of the secular Games which to this end were celebrated every hundredth yeer in Rome with a preceding general invitation from Cryers who proclaimed through the streets come to the games the which none ever saw since nor shall again which drew into the City of Rome infinite People of all Nations for the service of the devil And all those Nations since the institution of the yeer of Jubile render themselves at Rome though with much better reason viz. to serve the true God for the salvation of their own souls nor ought our pains seem strange to any for what is said concerning the mutation of evil into good because that not only in this but in divers other occasions the holy Church hath had this aime to consecrate that to God which the foolish generations had before time dedicated to Satan as may be seen in divers Temples of Rome now dedicated to the true Lord and his Saints which were formerly the Temples of Idols used for the distribution of candles and to make their Feasts as in San Pietro in Vincola the first of August the first of those ceremonies was made in Rome in honour of Februa by the Romans taken for a Goddess the other in memory of the triumph of Augustus Caesar. We find that Boniface the 9th in the yeer 1300. published the yeer of Jubile by his Bull wherein he declares as a Restorer rather then an Inventor or institutor of this yeer And t is no wonder that we find no firm testimony of its institution before that time because the Church hath had so many persecutions and so great toiles that t is a miracle that any antient Memorials are preserved rather then a wonder that some are lost At that time then the Pope in writing divulged this yeer conceding entire and plenary remission of offences and punishments every hundredth yeer which number of Centum one hundred bears also a certain sense of returning to good from evil as is fully proved by Girolamus and Beda principal Ecclesiastical writers Clement the sixth at the Instance of the Romans reduced Jubile to every fiftieth yeer chiefly for that the life of man is so short that very few arrive to one hundred yeers and for that in the number quinqua ginta fifty are contained many mysteries pertinent to the Christian Religion but principally it signifies remission and pardon the proper effect of

third book of the Roman history whence issuing forth by an obscure breach he at unawares put to sack the quarters of the Captain Clodi●…s and of the rest who were at the siege who never conceived the least thought of it Whither at this day any subterranean wayes or caverns leading from the Vineyards to the mouth of the Mountain are found out I cannot tell Pighius assuredly tells us that he observed at the top of the mountain about the mouth certain vents whence proceeded a continual heat wherein putting his hand he perceived clearly a heat although small and without smoke or vapour but our Country man Raymond observed in his view there a certain hill rising in the midst of the Vorago that still vomits thick smoke which he saies the fire within hath raised within few years that it dayly encreaseth and when grown to a fuller bulk Caveat Neapolis Thus much touching the Vesuvius Between the mountain Vesuvius and Attella in the Mediterran●… are scituate Mereliano Acerra and Sessola at present ruinated of old possessed by the Camps of the Leborini where the Romans and the Samnity fought most fiercely hither reach those mountains of Capua called by the Antients Tisata and those that extended towards the Mole Northwards here is Forche Caudino and other Castles with many inhabited places among which the chief is the Castle of Aciola at the foot of these mountains lies Caserta the City and Country of the great Cardinal Santorino called Santa Severina near which lye Maddalone Orazano and Argentino Behind Tifata on the back of the Mountain is scituate Sarno flowing with waters by means of the River Sarno which there takes its rise these are mediterranean places about Naples and Campana whence you go to the Marca The Kingdom whereof Naples is the Metropolis cōmenceth from Latium that part where the River Ufente runs into the Terreno Then towards the Apenines it passeth to Terracina thence to Frigella or Ponte curvo Ceperano Rieti Tagliacozze a Ducal City and Matrice where Trent begins its source Then follow the way along the River for eighteen miles to Colonia de gli Ascolani where the River dischargeth it self into the Adriatick Sea that part of the Kingdome opposite to the Promontory called of old Leucoperta now Capo Dell'armi respecting Sicilia is distant from Poggio forty eight stadii each of which contains 125 paces whose head is called Tarlo T is 418 miles of way to go by Terracina Bossento and Reggio towards Naples This Kingdom of Naples is one thousand four hundred and sixty eight mile in circuit whereto some have assigned ten provinces others nine others seaven and we thirteen The Terra di Lavoro taking in Naples hath three Arch-Bishops twenty five Bishopricks one hundred sixty six Castles surrounded with walls and one hundred and sixty Towns the Principality named Di quà on this side hath twelve Cities two hundred and eighteen Castles the Principality Di là beyond eleaven Cities one hundred forty and one Castles the fairest among which is Consa La Ba●…ilicata hath ten Cities ninety three Castles the fairest Venesa La Calabria di quà hath ten Cities one hundred sixty two Towers and Villages La Calabria di là wherein is Reggio hath sixteen Cities and one hundrd and thirty Castles The Province of Otranto hath besides Brindesi thirteen other Cities and one hundred fifty eight Castles or Towns The Province de Bari hath fourteen Cities and fifty Castles La Capitaota thirteen Cities and fifty Towns whereof the most notable is Manfredonia The Countrey of Moliseo four Cities one hundred and four Castles the fairest Trivento L'abruzzo di quà hath five Cities one hundred and fifty Castles the chief Teate L'Abruzzo di là besides Aquila hath four other Cities and two hundred eighty four Castles but with more brevity to speak of them this Kingdom hath twenty Arch-Bishopricks one hundred twenty five Bishopricks ten Principalitys twenty three Dutchies thirty Marquisates fifty four Earld omes with authority over their subjects fifteen Lords who have jurisdiction four hundred forty three petty Lords with title and authority a thousand Towns enclosed with walls and villages in great number The most famous Islands of this Kingdom are Enaria Procida Lipari and thirteen others of small fame The Offices of this Kingdom are great Comestable who is Viceroy Grand Justiciary Grand Admiral Grand Chamberlain Grand Prothonotariy Grand Mareschal Grand Chancellor as also the Sindico or Judge who publiquely performs his office in attending the busine●…s of the City Naples which hath five kindes of assembly of the Nobles di Nido di Porta Nova di Capuana di Montagna di Porto which congregations or assemblies although under other denominations the City Capua likewise enjoyes Many Cities most antient and adorned with signal conditions have been in this Kingdom whose memory is yet in being except Osea Metaponto Sibari and others hereafter spoken of The Foster Children of this Kingdome truly famous in Letters were Archita Eurito Alemeone Zenone Leucippus Parmenides Timeus Ennius Lucillus Pocuvins Horatius Ovidius Statius Juve●…al Salustius Cicero and San Thomasus besides others more modern I wil be silent of such sommi Pontifici or Popes the Emperors Kings the valorous Captains of war and the thousands of Prelates Princes and Heroes as likewise of the male and female Saints who perpetually contemplate the Countenance of God as this Kingdom hath happily given birth to These following have been Lords of the Kingdom of Naples to wit the Greeks the Goths the Vandals the Longobards Sarazens the Turks the Hormeni the Suevi the French the Catalonians the Arrago●…ians the Flemmings or Spaniards and sometime the not to be forgotten Romans The Journey towards POZZUOLO THe Mountain Pausilippus though very high is well manured with vineyards and rich Townes also in old time as we collect from Pliny and others it extends into the Sea in form of a Promontory and shuts up the way between Naples and Pozzuolo and was an intollerable toyle to the Travellers to pass over or go round it before t was cut in two t is now by the industry of the passengers through their hollowing it for the head and levelling it for the feet become the mistress of waies being strait plain and easy therefore the Graecians to the purpose by a word in their tongue called it Pausilippo as if they would say a remover of troubles and labour by which surname the Graecians of old called Jupiter as we read in Sophocles The mountain is hollowed within for one thousand paces in length twelve foot wide and as much more in heighth on which as Strabo writes two Carts may commodiously meet and pass under earth Seneca calls the cavern Cripta Neapolitana though now the name is changed for Grotta where he writes to Lucullus in the 58. epistle to have run the whole fortune of the Atlesi for that he found copiously in a part of the muddy way implaistrings and in the same cavern abundance of the dust