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A80693	The court of Rome. Wherein is sett forth the whole government thereof; all the officers belonging unto it, with the value of their offices, as they are sold by the Pope also the originall, creation and present condition of the cardinals : together with the manner of the now Pope Innocent the tenth's election; coronation, and hiding in state to take possession of his lateranense church. Besides many other remarkable matters most worthy to be knowne. And a direction for such as shall travell to Rome, how they may with most ease, and commoditie view all those rarities, curiosities, and antiquities, which are to be seene there. / Translated out of Italian into English by H.C. Gent.	Cogan, Henry, translator.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6591; Thomason E1456_2; ESTC R210329	105,785	299

athwart the Hall so that they who sit upon it do look the Pope in the face On his holinesse left hand is the seat of the Deacons-Cardinalls betwixt the which and the seat that goes crosse the Hall is a void space about an eleven or twelve hands-breadth which serves as a door into the entrance of the Consistory These seats are adorned with Arras and Tapestry and are of one and the same length and breadth all the room about the seats is overspread with green cloth The Pope goes to the publick Consistory arrayed in the same manner as he goes to the Chappell with the Crosse and Cardinals preceding him when he comes there he sits downe in his seat and so do the Cardinalls in theirs after they have done their accustomed obeisance to his Holinesse The Arch-Bishops Bishops Pronotaries and all the Prelates sit upon the three Steps of the Pontificall Throne and with them last of all the Sub-deacons Auditors and Clerks of the Chamber The long robed Courtiers sit on the ground between the Cardinals seats the Chamberlaines and Secretaries do sit also on the ground betwixt the Prelates and the long robed Courtiers If the Popes Nephews or some great Princes are present which are not to sit on the Cardinals seats they stand neare to the Pope The Ambassadors of Kings and Princes and great noblemen stand on the Popes right hand between the steps of the Throne and the Wall the Popes domestick servants and Courtiers stand on his left hand between the steps of the Throne and the Wall the Consistoriall Advocates stand behind the Priests and Deacons-Cardinall seats the Procurators of Kings Princes and religious orders stand behind the Bishops-Cardinalls seat betwixt the Wall and the seat in the space between the Priests and Deacons-Cardinalls seats stand the Sergeants at arms as it were at the door of the Consistory and there do they that are to come unto the Pope enter The Master of the sacred shoushold stands before the Sergeants at armes at the end of the Priests Cardinalls seat and in the head of the Deacons-Cardinalls seat are the Masters of the Ceremonies that they may be alwaies ready to execute the Popes commands and to give order for any thing that is to be done When the Consistory is held for judiciall causes which the Pope useth to do at such time as it is not held for other causes the Proponent Advocate stands behinde the Priests Cardinalls seat just opposite to the Pope and opening his cause doth in the end cast the Schedule of his supplication amongst the long robed Courtiers which sit on the ground who transmit it unto the hands of the vice-Chancellor Now if any of the other Advocats will contradict him and answer for his adversary upon the finishing of the debate the Pope answers plainly by word of mouth Placet or with a limitation that he will advise upon it and the vice-Chancellor with his owne hand signes the supplication according to the Popes answer and writes the same downe in a Booke which he hath alwaies there by him causes being so dispatched all riseup and the Pope returnes to his Chamber in the same manner as he came Of the secret Consistory THe secret Consistory is held in some remoter roome of the Apostolicall Palace at this day called the Papall Chamber where in the midst of it is a Pontificall seate erected against the wall which is raised from the ground without steps or degrees and hath a great footstoole on which the the Pope setts his feet and another litle one whereby one may ascend higher The Cardinals seats are placed before the Pope on the right left hand everyone in its order The Popes seate is adorned with cloth of gold the Cardinalls seates are bare but painted red with his Holinesse Armes upon them The place between the Popes seate and the Cardinals is usually covered with tapestry The junior Deacon Cardinall hath a little bell by him wherewith hee gives notice to the Keepers of the Consistory if the Pope or Fathers will have them to doe any thing In the space between the Cardinalls seates are two formes placed round at a pretty distance the one from the other untill all are come in so that the Cardinals may betwixt them as through a doore passe to their seates but when all of them are congregated those two formes are put close together againe in their place When as Consistoriall matters begin to be treated of all other Prelates besides the Cardinalls are shut out Two secret Chamberlaines waite without at the doore of the Consistory that they may bee ready upon the ringing the bell for any command The Pope propounds such businesses as are to be handled in the Senate and in order requires their opinions which are called votes then each of them rising up gives his vote whereupon his Holinesse according to the major part decrees Of the Conclave THe place of the Conclave for so is that called at this day wherein the Fathers are shutt up for election of the Pope is in the Apostolicall Palace and it containes two Halls and Chappell 's with some other roomes and houses of Office all which are so closed up with a wall that one can see no windowes but what are very high those only excepted by which you passe unto the Chappell 's and second Hall The Halls are for the Cardinalls to walke in and recreate themselves in when they are not imployed in the Election the other roomes are for the use of such as are also shutt up with the Cardinalls in the Conclave The gate at the entrance into the first Hall hath a wicket in it through which the Cardinalls dyet is brought in unto them and the said gate and wicket are made safe with strong iron barrs and foure locks In the lesser Chappell the Fathers meete to celebrate Divine Service and to make the election In the greater Chappell are so many Cells made as there be Cardinalls voting in election which are distant about a foot one from another and are not separated asunder by any wall or such like matter but by curtaines or thin cloth which hang upon rafters set up all along in a decent manner for that purpose Now these Cells all are marked with the letters of the Alphabet and on the day before the Cardinals enter into the conclave and are severally assigned to each of them not by order but by lott and then doe their servants in that interim make provision of curtaines beds and other furniture for them The Conclave being thus prepared especiall order is taken that none may goe stand or abide above below or on any of the sides of the Conclave nor that any may see speak or any way send or cast any thing unto them that are shut up in it lest thereby any might be enabled to search into their Counsells by voice signe sound or any other device Moreover there are foure guards of the further Conclave appointed the guard of

stile calling the former sonnes and the latter brethren in the manner as the Pope doth This Vicechancellor also assooneas the Pope is dead takes away the Bulls wherewith the Apostolicall Letters are sealed from the Keepers of them and that part whereon the name of the Pope is inscribed he causeth publiquely and before many persons to be razed and made altogether unfit for sealing the other part whereon the heads of the Apostles are ingraven he delivers tyed up in a linnen cloth and sealed with his seale to the Chamberlaine taking speciall care that no Letters may be sealed after the death of the Pope A DIRECTION FOR SVCH AS shall Travell unto ROME How they may with most ease and conveniency view all those rarities curiosities and Antiquities which are to be seene there London Printed for Henry Herringman at the Anchor in the New Exchange 1654. The Italian Author to the Travelling Stranger MAny ages are past saith Saint Jerome ad Laetam de instit fil since of the old Rome there hath no longer been seen the beauty of the Forum the excellencie of the Temple of Tarpeian Jove the magnificence of the Thermae or Baths built in the forme of provinces the riches of the Pantheor and of infinite other edifices at the sight where of Ammianus Marcellinus stood amazed and after the time of St. Jerome the Citty of the Roman Gentles changed face in such sort as Fuligines saith et arenarum telis omnia Romae Templa cooperta sunt movetur urbs sedibus suis But now it is so strangely renued that we cannot know what we read thereof in antient writters It changed face I say in St. Jeromes age at such time as mundanus populus ante delubra semiruta ad Martyrum tumulos currebat And after the cruell spectacle of the killing of the Citizens for the faith of Christ it was purged from Idolatrous blood and impietie and gentilisme being at one time extinguished trophees were every where erected to the preaching of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul Finally the Empire of Rome was renovated with a strange Metamorphosis and made as Rupertus the Abbot saith lib. 3. cap. 2. de Divin offic Caput mundi Domini Christi Regis aeterni vehiculum et habitaculum currus atque Thronum Yet were not the antient Temples for all that taken away but the superstitions were converted to Godly and the wicked and impure to chast and religious uses yea the very Baths and Theaters were all sanctified But these too afterwards became the prey of the Barbarians and of time so that dispoiled of their pretious ornaments and in part destroyed they remained deformed reliques altogether unsufficient to excite in any the marvaile of the antient magnificence At last the new City rose up again with Palaces Churches Gardens Pyramides Columns and other fabricks no lesse to be regarded then the antient There wants not in it an infinite number of Marbles and other stones of great price exquisite Mosaique works excellent Pictures and rare statues and sepulchers In it also are noble Libraries and Hospitals for all infirmities and nations besides Colledges and seminaries for youth with large and spacious houses for the receiving and relieving of Orphans and Children both of the one and the other sex that are abandoned and left to the wide world It is likewise replenished with convents of Fryars Monasteries of Nunnes and Oratories of laymen who exercise themselves continually in the works of pietie charitie and devotion Passing then oftentimes up and down this Citty either for recreation or devotion and diligently observing it on every part illustrated with many famous antiquities modern rarities and superbe-edifices which for their multitude can not without danger of the truth be trusted to the memory of the spectator I resolved to note all briefly with that order which seemed to me most easie for the convenient viewing of them Having done so then and shewed it to my friends they judged it to be very necessary for the travelling strangers who roaming many times intricately thorough Rome part from it afterwards confounded with the magnificence of a Chaos and not satisfied in their desires wherefore I thought fit to publish it for their better accommodation and benefit Now it may be some of them will complaine that I guide them with too Laconick a discourse for the understanding of that which is to be seen but beleeve me if they would be informed of the beginnings augmentations and qualitie of all the Temples Palaces Gardens Piatzaes Statues Pictures Hospitals Colledges Fraternities Monasteries and other things of the Citty many bookes would be required for the contenting of their Curiosity But my intent only is to signifie so much briefly as will be sufficient for the speed of a strangers travell who if he can have time enough for it he may arrive to the full knowledge of all the sacred and prophane antiquities of the Citty with the study of certain Authors in print of which that he may not be confounded with the multitude of them that have written thereof I will quote some few that will very well serve to give him satisfaction Let the travelling stranger then furnish himselfe with Andrea Fulvio de Palestrina who wrote in latin and was translated into Italian by Paolo del Rosso in the year 1543. and newly printed by Franzini in Venice 1588. with figures and the Annotations of Giralomo Fernucci Next with Giovanni Bartolomeo Martiano but he must be sure to get that of the last Edition in folio for the other printed in octavo is not right and reproved by the author himself All the editions of Fauno Lucio Mauro and Bernardo Gamucci are good Of all the Churches of Rome Ottavio Pancirolo hath written the Title of his book being Tesori Nescosti and after him Pompilio Torto Stationer under the name of Lodovico his sonne whose book is intituled Ritratto di Roma moderna Of all the pious works of Rome Camillo Fanucci hath written exceeding well Of the Church-yards of Rome Bosio hath treated but he did not finish the work It was printed with the revisall of Giovanni Severani and an edition of many figures being intituled Rom● Sotterranea Of the Statues Ulysses Aldrovanda hath written and Francesco Perrior hath designed and cut an hundred of the most famous Statues of Rome Of the pictures which are in some Churches frontispices and Palaces Gasparo Celio and Giovanni Baglione have written The feasts which are daily celebrated in Churches and other places of the Citty he shall finde printed in a sheet of paper which is yeerly published and intituled Diario Romano Finally though I am certain that I have not set forth anything in this treatise which I have not read in some good Author or seen with mine owne eys or received from persons worthy of Credit or established in the most common opinion of the World yet doe I not for all that professe to take from any one that is of more understanding the liberty of holding

a Tabernacle supported by four great wreathed Pillars of mettall richly gilded by the late Pope Vrban the eight and inriched in the four inches of the plaisters of the roof with the four Collossian statues of the Veronica of Saint Andrew of Saint Longino and of St. Elena made by the most famous men of that profession And in summe consider the immensitie of the whole Church in the scite whereof were in times past two antient Temples of Apollo and Mars two fals Gods of the Gentiles Omit not going into the Vestry and into the Grott beautified with many curiosities and suptuously adorned use means to get up into the steeple and there admire the beauty and vastnesse of the frontispice vaulted roofe and great Lanthorne of the Church and enter if commodiously you can into the boule which is on the top of it with a companion and your owne wonder Being come downe go directly through the porch to see the Pontificall Palace diligently observing the excellencie of the staires Courts porches and their pictures Enter also into the new palace built by Sixtus Quintus that you may enjoy the goodly object of the Clementine Hall which Clement th' eight caused to be adorned with fine marbles curiously painted from the Cornish downeward by Cherubina Alberti from the Cornish upward by Balddassarino of Bologna and the brother of Alberti and lastly the magnificence of all the Pontificall Lodgings likewise the old Lodgeings rarely painted by Rafaele dVrbino Guilio Romano and other renowned painters the Royall and Ducall Halls with their pictures the Chappell of Sixtus Quintus painted by Buonaroti the new lodgings over the tarrace made by Urban the eight with the rare picturs thereof the two Galleries namely that in the Lodg the other over the Librarie whose pictures the said Pope Vrban caused to be refreshed the Vrban Army the Vatican Library restored and increased by the said Pope Vrban and the Vestry and Wardrobe Descend then to see at the end of the Tarrace in a Court which some call Pius Quartus his garden the famous Statues of Laocoon Hercules Antinonus and two of Venus with those of the renounced Rivers of Nilus and Tiber found in former times in Constantines Baths at Monte Cavello Goe afterwards into the great Garden most delectable and goodly to behold for the sumptuousness of the fountaines bascage walkes and all kinds of curious flowers and a world of simples Having left the Garden passe into the great Court of Belnedere and through it goe to the Guard of Switzers then towards Campo Santo you shall see the guard of high horse the Palace and Prisons of the holy Office for the most part built by the said Urban the eight Neere unto it is the Palace and Garden of the Cesi adorned with Statues and ancient inscriptions From thence where was the street of the Lombardi who dwelt there in the time of Charles the Great you shall walke along by the Palace of the Marquis Vincenzo de Nobili to the Church of St. Michael the Archangell and to the Hospitall of St. Spirito called Sasia from the Sapons who for a time inhabited in that place there observe the Church the Palace the Speciaria and Hospitall for infirme and hurt persons the receptacle of Nurses and infants and of a world of young children exposed to the wide world all maintained with unexpressible charge and charity And thus much shall suffice to have seene in the first dayes walke The second dayes walke By il Frestavere REturne by il Ponte Saint Angelo to see the goodly Church of St. Onifrio Then in Longara directly from the Gate of Sancto Spirito to the Settimiano of Julius the second you shall see the Palace of the Duke Salviati the Church and Hospitall of the Ereniti Camoldolici Monks the Church and Monastery which the Princesses Donna Colonna Barberini lately founded the Church and Monastery of St. Jacomo built from the ground by Cardinall Barberino and against it is another of the Penitents A little beyond on the left hand is the Palace caled de Ghisirith lodgings painted in fresco by Raphaele d'Vrbino and on the left hand is a Palace of the Riarii Within a while you will goe out of the Longa through the Gate called Settimiania and vulgarly Settignana from Septimius Severus the Emperour who built his Baths with an Altar to Janus named Settinniano the title thereof indured over the gate untill the time of Pope Alexander the eight who took it away It was called according to some Porta Fontinale because in the Temple thereunto adjoyning was the feast of the Fountains celebrated Crowning the Wells with flowers and casting Garlands into the Fountains although others beleeve that the like feast was kept neer to Saint Sebastino's Gate Being out of this gate you shall go up on the right hand to see the fountain of the Alsetina water built of Marble stones drawn out of the Emperor Neroa's Forum by Pope Paul the fifths order who caused the water to be conducted for the space of five and thirty miles from the lake of Bracciano This water was called Augusta from Augustus who as some will have it conducted it thither from the Lake Alsietino but if it be true as Marliano and others write that this water was the conveyance of Pope Adrian the first it must then be said to be the water Sabbatina from the Lake of Anguillara Then enter into the Convent of Franciscan Fryars di S. Pietro Montorio wherein there is a notable Chappell of Bramantes designe in the place where Saint Peter was crucified and enjoy the sight of the pictures and Statues which richly adorne the neighbouring Church amongst the which is worthy of perpetuall memory that famous piece of the transfiguration of our Saviour done by Rafael de Urbino Upon this hill was Statius the Poet buried and under it Numa Pompilius the second King of the Romans whose body with some of his bookes was found there five hundred and five and thirty years after as Plinie writes lib. 13. cap. 13. From thence go down to see the Church della Madona della Scala of the Reformati Carmelitani then passe on to the Church and Monasterie of the Nunnes di Santa Maria del Carmine for the conducting of you to the next most antient and beautifull Church of Santa Maria in Frastevere built over the Lodgings of the souldiers of the Army which Augustus kept in the port of Ravenna called Taberna Meritoria where in the time of Augustus and at the birth of our saviour Jesus Christ a fountain of Oile sprung up which continued running for a whole day together Being come out of Saint Maries you will find on the right hand the summer Palace of the Benedictine Monks of Santa Giustina who have in their charge the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul without Rome and turning on the right hand you shall see the Church of Saint Calisto the Pope wherein is the Well into which he was thrown