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A64740	Anekdota eteroūiaka, or, The secret history of the house of Medicis written originally by that fam'd historian, the Sieur de Varillas ; made English by Ferrand Spence.; Anecdotes de Florence. English	Varillas, Monsieur (Antoine), 1624-1696.; Spence, Ferrand.	1686 (1686)	Wing V112; ESTC R2059	224,910	556

made him Keeper of the Vatican Library but he dy'd at twenty eight years old when on his Journey to take possession of his new Dignity Titus Sforza was a famous Latin Poet of Ferrara he Compos'd several Eclogues and put into Verse the History of the House of Esté None wou'd have disputed with him the Crown of Lawrel he laid claim to after Petrarch's Example if he had not got a Son that prov'd a better Poet than himself Hercules Sforza made such fine Verses at sev'nteen years old as created a Jealousie in his very Father and as he had no less Qualities for the Court than for Parnassus he became the Duke his Master's Favourite and made Love to that Prince's Sister while he wrote Verses worthy of Antiquity for the Dutchess Lacretia Borgia He was Gallant and very Ingenuous in Repartees as he made a Lady sensible upon her twitting him with his being Lame for he extemporaneously reply'd that Venus who understood her self as well as she at least in Love had nevertheless preferr'd Vulcan before others But to his bane the Beauteous Toreti the Duke's Mistress inspir'd him with Love They agreed to steal a little Matrimony Clandestinely for fear their Nuptials might be cross'd and afterwards to proclaim their Marriage as soon as it shou'd be a time fitting they supposing the Duke wou'd leave off loving Toreti when he came to know she had thrown her self into the Arms of another But they were mistaken for hardly was the business known but that Sforza coming to sup at the Palace was kill'd without any inquest being since made into th' Assassination Barthelemi Cocles study'd only Chiromancy and Metoposcopy but he became so knowing that no body ever made so many true Predictions He was more hardy than other Wizzards for he caus'd a Book to be Printed enrich'd with Figures wherein he reveal'd all the secret of his Art explain'd all the Lines of the Hand all the different Features of the Face and laid open the signification of each thing in particular The Learned Achillini made a Preface to it equally admir'd by the Friends and Enemies of the Art of Fortune-telling and Cocles confirm'd his Positions by an Experience which brought him into a general Vogue Luca Gaurie so famous in Judicial Astrology cou'd not make his own Horoscope for want of knowing the day and hour and place of his Birth He had recourse to Cocles who viewing his Hand foretold him that he wou'd suddenly undergo a Punishment without having deserv'd it but yet dye of it he wou'd not And indeed Bentivoglio Lord of Bologna being inform'd that Gaurie had foretold that he shou'd be driven out of his Territory before the years end caus'd him to be Kidnapt and commanded he shou'd have the Strapado giv'n him five times together which was accordingly executed but also was he divested in the time that Gaurie had noted As to Cocles he had no less foreseen the day and hour of his own Death He knew it his Fate to be kill'd by a blow on his Head and had Arm'd himself with an Iron Coif under his Hat and with a two-handed Sword with which he Fenced Competently well Yet Hermes Bentivoglio the Great Lord of Bologna's Son had desir'd him so earnestly to tell him his Fortune that he had declar'd to him he shou'd be banish'd and kill'd in a Battel which happen'd afterwards But then Hermes the most Brutal Man of his time wou'd needs be reveng'd on Cocles in causing him to be assassinated by Caponi the most resolute of his Father's Guards Capani excus'd doing it a long while and wou'd never have resolv'd upon it had not the Fancy took him one day to consult Cocles who not knowing him told him Alas my Friend you 'l commit a detestable Murther before it 's yet night Caponi being surpriz●d at so unexpected a Prediction imagin'd Cocles impos'd on his Credulity as he had done on that of Hermes and thereupon took his measures to kill him He went and disguis'd himself in the accoutrements of a Porter for the better performing his Design and return'd in the moment that Cocles who had been constrain'd for an indispensable Affair to go abroad came back and was just putting the Key into the Lock of his Door he gave him so great a blow with an Ax that the Iron Coif cou'd not hinder Cocles head from being cloven In his Closet a Book was found written with his own hand containing Predictions for those of his Acquaintance whose Hands and Countenance he had observ'd and the Event justify'd 'em to be all infallible there not being a Person of that number but dy'd after him of the Death he had noted Johannes Cotta was Catullus his Country-man and had almost the same Genius He gave himself to Barthelemi de Lalviano and offer'd to keep him Company when the French had taken him at the Battel of Laghiara Dadda and this Office being declin'd he went to Rome to hasten his Benefactor 's Ransome and dy'd there of the Plague at eight and twenty years old His Epigrams have the turn of those of Martial and his Orations shew he had already read good Books He had likewise Compos'd a Chorography in Verse and Observations upon Pliny but it 's not known what are become of those two Works Peter Crinitus was Politianus his ablest Scholar and succeeded him in the Chair and Education of the Youth of Florence THE END The Printed Authors and Manuscripts whence the First Book is taken THE Acts of the Foundation of San Lorenzo's Church at Florence The Paintings of the Old Palace de Medici The Second Tome of Giorgio Vasavii The Eulogy of Cosmo the Old among the little Eulogies of Paulus Jovius The Rights of the House of Savoy to the Kingdom of Cyprus The Fifth Part of Pogiodes Works The First Edition of Coleon's Life Antonius Campanus in the Life of Braccio Filippo Strozzi and his Childrens Manifest against Cosimo de Medici The Printed Authors and Manuscripts whence the Second Book is taken SImoneta's Manuscript in the French King's Library Senator Moccenigo's History of Venice The Memorial of the Seditions that happen'd at Florence under the Government of the Republick The Topographick History of Volterra Onuphrius in the Life of Sixtus the 4th Politianus his Pazzi's Conspiracy of old Aldus Menuceus his first Edition The Printed Authors and Manuscripts whence the Third Book is taken CArdinal Nardi's Negotiations with Ferrand of Naples and the Duke of Calalabria his Son Two Italian Letters of Lorenzo de Medici one to justifie his Voyage to Naples address'd to the Council of Eight at Florence and the other written to all the Magistrates of the Republick to give them an Account of the Treaty he had there concluded the Neapolitan King's War against the Barons by an unknown Author in the French King 's sixth Library The History of Venice by Sabellieus Platina's Continuator in the Life of Sixtus the 4th Andréa Doria's Life by Carolus Sigonius The Printed Authors and Manuscripts whence the Fourth Book is taken THE Tuscan Relation of Aetius Sincerus d'Anazar The Index of Leonard Aretin's Works by Mr. de la Marc. The Saint Denis and the Diogenes Laertius of Amboise de Camaldoli The Fourth Tome of Pontanus his Works by Aldus Manuceus The Decades of Blondus The History of Filippo Visconti The Life of Charlemain by Achaiolis The Combat of Philadeste and Timotée in Mirtavis The Conclave of Sixtus the 4th The Greek Poems of Lascaris and the Latin of Majoranus The Epigrams of Marulus The Preface to Plato's Works The Eulogies of Politian The Corrections and the History of the Visconti's by Merula Politian's Epitaph by Cardinal Bombe The Life of Savonarola the Jacobin The Printed Authors and Manuscripts whence the Fifth Book is taken THE Discourse of the Medici's Exile by Cardinal Bibiana The Conclave of Julius the 2d The Manifest of Lewis the 12th against the same Pope The Acts of the Council held at Pisa during the Dissentions of Lewis the 12th and Julius the 2d Pompeo Colonna's Harangue to the Romans to persuade them to recover their Liberty while the Pope was sick The Relation of the Cardinal Legat's flight after the Battel of Ravenna by Barnabé de Malespina Machiavel's Life Mario Musuoi's Observations upon that of Castruccio The Printed Authors and Manuscripts whence the Sixth Book is taken LEO the 10th's Conclave His entry into Florence by Francisco de Sangallo A Memorial of the Offices the Republick of Genoua has render'd at sundry times to France Géne●rard's and Mr. du Puit's Observations upon the Concordate A Collation of Guichiardini's Errors by Giovanni Battista Leoni Lorenzo de Medici's Negotiation with the Heiress of Bologna between the Duke d'Albania and Cardinal Bibiana That of the Election of Charles the Fifth by Adolphus Vander Marck Bishop of Liergi Leo the 10th's Instruction to Roberto Ursini upon the same subject The Life of the first Duke of Urbin of the House della Rovere A Journal containing the Secret and Circumstances of Cardinal Petrucci's Conspiracy The ten Books of Pope Leo's Epistles The Printed Authors and Manuscripts whence the Sev'nth Book is taken THE Eulogies of Pontanus and of Domitius The Collection of Anonymous Authors The Life of Duke Valentinois Pesaro's Topographick History Guichiardini's first Book A Dissertation by an unknown Hand upon the Infelicity of Men of Literature Floridus Sabinus in his Eulogies The History of Remini Beroalde Senior's Commentary upon Apuleius his Golden Ass The Eulogies of the Vatican Library Keepers Julius the 2d's Manifest against Giovanni Bentivoglio Cotta's Eulogy in Julius Caesar Scaliger Justinian's History of Venice Mascardi in the Art of History Antonio Possevino in the History of the Gonzaga's Longeuil's Judgment upon Erasmus and Budeus Paulus Jovius his Dialogue with the Marquis du Guast The Neapolitan Families d'Ammirato The Postscripts of Budeus to divers Manuscripts in the French King's Library FINIS

of his time who apply'd his Mind to the Study of Polite Letters He translated the Work of the Hierarchy attributed to St. Denis with so much eloquence and neatness that none have since come near his Style But he sped not so well in the Translation of Diogenes Laertius He was General of his Order and the Popes Eugenius the Fourth and Nicholas the Fifth could not entice him from his Solitude by proposing to him the Dignity of Cardinal as an Attraction to get him to the Court of Rome He persever'd in his Hermitage unto a profound old age in an healthful Chearfulness which procur'd him the Visits of the Worthy'st Persons in Tuscany and he it was Lorenzo de Medici pitch'd on to reconcile Lorenzo Val with Poggio He endeavour'd it for a long while but with so little Success that they since gave him reason to averr in a Letter written to the Prince of Mirandola That he had found them neither Christians nor Men of Reason Antonio da Palermo was born at Bologna of the Illustrious Family of Beccarelli but without any Estate He had Eight hundred Crowns Pension to teach History to the last Duke of Milan of the House of Visconti from whence he went to Naples to be King Alfonso's Secretary He accompany'd that Prince in all his Wars and Voyages and was Eye-witness of most of the Wonders he relates of him in a Book that has had the Honour to be enrich'd and re-touch'd by Pope Pius the Second He was very Moderate for the first Sev'nty years of his Life but at Sev'nty one a fair Maid of Naples call'd Marcilla inspir'd him with Love and made him think on Marriage He had by her several Children and dy'd Ten years after with so little Pain and Distraction that a moment before he expir'd he made his own Epitaph Lorenzo Val was the first Roman in whose Head it came to repair the Damage the Barbarous-Nations had done the Study of the Latin Tongue He compos'd Books of Elocution which quickned the Roman Youth with a Desire to hunt in the Works of the Ancients for the Purity of Expressions that had been natural to them He carefully translated Herodotus and Thucydides tho' his Fidelity has since been much question'd by Henry Estienno in those two Works But he was of so malign a Disposition that he could not speak of any Man without Detraction He took fire on the least occasion and when he had once begun to ferment it was impossible for him to abstain from the bitterest Invectives or to be brought to a Reconciliation with those he had offended Thus finding no longer any one to Criticise upon in the Court of Rome he remov'd to that of Naples where he got immediately into Credit by the Offer he made to write the most Illustrious Actions of Naples He went about it with all his might but with so little Success that his Adversaries had reason to upbraid him That he had fall'n himself into all the Faults which he had so often reprov'd in others This Disgrace it 's thought made him banish himself from King Alfonso's Court and that the anxiety of surviving his Reputation made him take pet and die at Fifty years of age And the Romans could hardly be prevail'd with to suffer him to be bury'd in the Church of Lateran whereof he was a Canon for that he had made way for others to doubt of their Pretensions by writing against the Donation of the Emperour Constantine to Pope Sylvester They would have had more reason to contest him so honourable a Sepulture on the score of the Scandal and Ill Example he had giv'n in the Commonwealth of Learning by first publishing whole Books of Invectives and Recriminations Fabius Blondus was born at Furli of the Scum of the People and earn'd Preferment and a Name by his Courage in undertaking to write the huge Decades of the Civil Wars of Italy whos 's Memoirs were upon the point of being lost because there was not a Person willing to apply his Endeavours to so tedious and irksom a Subject He since compos'd another Piece of the Revolutions hapning during the Decaydency and Restauration of the Roman Empire with so much satisfaction to Pope Nicolas the Fifth who set him to work that he made great Gains by this Atchievement and it is verily believ'd he would have attain'd to the most eminent Dignities had he not preferr'd Wedlock to an Ecclesiastick State He marry'd a Roman Lady of great Quality by whom he had several Children who had the Misfortune to become miserably poor he dy'd at Seventy years old and was bury'd at the Door of our Lady of Ara Coeli I have sometimes made enquiry how it comes this Author is so little known and have found no other Cause but that he had the misfortune a hundred years after his Death that Carolus Sigonius took a fancy to write upon the same Subject And as he was less entangl'd and more methodick than Blondus he ravish'd him of his Reputation with so much excess that he now serves onely for Parade in Libraries tho' otherwise no Man can deny but that Sigonius is almost all along the Plagiary of Blondus Candidus December went from Vigevano where he was born to Milan He became the best Critick in Europe in Lorenzo Val's Judgment who never commended any other Grammarian of his time save Candidus He was the first Translator of Appianus Alexandrinus which he did not speed in however skilful in the Greek and Latin Tongues because he had made use of so faulty a Manuscript that he had been constrain'd to supply in several Places upon feeble Conjectures what was wanting to the Text. But in recompence he wrote the Life of Filippo Visconti Duke of Milan in a Style so like to that of Suetonius that none have since been able to come near it no not Paulus-Jovius tho' he has endeavour'd it in the Life of the Great Sforza sirnam'd Attendula True it is he has ting'd and dash'd it with things so highly shocking Modesty that it 's a wonder that this notwithstanding his Work has been infinitely esteem'd He dy'd aged Fourscore and was bury'd near the Library of St. Ambrosio which had been long under his Care It is not without some Confusion that I speak here of that famous Algionus tho' he was the Learned'st Venetian of his Age and that we have Letters of his written with the utmost politeness to Lorenzo de Medici However those who know him have not been able to excuse him from two great Infirmities The one of getting drunk as often as he found the occasion And the other of having depriv'd Posterity of the most excellent of Cicero's Works of which he had got the Manuscript This wretched Plagiary was under an Obligation of comforting the Proveditor Cornaro in the Banishment he was doom'd to for having been routed in making War upon the Turks tho' the Fault was none of his Algionus sent him the Book entit'led De

at that time that Pope Innocent the 8th being one day inform'd that the Patriarchship of Aquileia was fall'n vacant he conferr'd it on him with full Right It is to be presum'd his Holiness had then no other Intentions than to reward the extraordinary Merit of Hermolaus But the Senate of Venice was too much upon its Guard against the Innovations of the Court of Rome to want taking notice that the Pope had made an Encroachment by Conferring the Patriarchship of Aquileia For tho' the Soveraign Pontiffs pretended that they might place in that Station whom they pleas'd yet they never did so with that Soveraign Authority and were wont to give Bulls only to the Person nominated to them by the Ambassadour of the Republick Nevertheless Innocent the 8th had dispensed himself from keeping this Formality in the affair in hand and gave but too much room for suspition to People naturally distrustful that he had nick'd his time to create Patriarch of Aquileia a Patriarch and a Personage so famous that they wou'd be far from opposing his Installation for the placing there afterwards Parties as wou'd not be of the same Consideration From hence it came to pass that tho' Hermolaus was one of the most Illustrious Gentlemen of Venice and possess'd besides all the other Qualities that in another Conjuncture wou'd have preferr'd him to the Patriarchship yet the Senate acted with as much Rigour and Obstinacy to hinder his attaining it as if they had judg'd him absolutely unworthy of it On the other side the Pope was resolv'd to maintain what he had done and to carry things to extremity rather than indure that Hermolaus shou'd not enjoy the Grace he had done him But this wonderful Genius did his Common-wealth Justice in opposition to his own Interests and own'd she had reason to be against him He conjur'd the Pope to confer the Benefice on the Party that shou'd be presented to him by the Ambassadour of Venice and formally declar'd that he wou'd accept none if he must incur at this rate the Envy of his fellow Citizens The Pope was so affected with his moderation that he promis'd to make him Cardinal at the first Promotion But in a few days after Hermolaus fell sick of a Pestilential Feaver the only remedy to Cure him was giving him Bezoar neither mixt nor sophisticated There was some at Florence in an Agate Vessel which Suldan Cayte-bay had made a Present of to Lorenzo de Medici Politian and Picodella Mirandola sent it Post but the Courier found Hermolaus just expir'd Giorgio Merula who surviv'd Hermolaus but four days had not a Wit so well turn'd as his tho' little less Vigorous He was a Lombard by Inclination as well as by Birth and those who knew him intimately observed in him all the Vices and all the Virtues attributed to that Nation He was Maligne unapt to Learn Revengeful Pittiless and if he did no mischief save by Writing it was because that the lowness of his Fortune and the Employment he follow'd did not allow him to do it in any other manner He held it for an Honour to pass for a Pedant he affected all the Grimaces of Pedantry for fear he should be disputed that Quality All his Life long did he perform the Publick Functions of a Pedant at Venice and Milan As his main strength consisted in Criticisme he retrench'd his Wit to that with it to gore and persecute all the Learned Persons of his Age. He was ever at War with one or other and so implacable that he wou'd never be reconcil'd with any Body He had also this property of the Mad-dog which he had taken for his Devise that his bite was incurable Calderin was the first whose Reputation he took a pleasure in ruining not that he desir'd to gain by it but only because it seem'd too well settl'd to his Fancy Then fell he to making an Index of the Errors he had found in Galcote and us'd him so severely that he took pet and dy'd These two advantages gain'd in the Grammar Combat puft up his Heart He took up all the able men in Europe and publish'd against them his Corrections which were read with so much the more avidity that of so many Persons whose Ignorance was mark'd there was not one durst set Pen to Paper in his own Vindication out of fear of being crusht with a Reply Merula did not so much as spare Politian tho' Politian had acquir'd Fame sufficient as not to have his match He shew'd him that tho' Nature had given him all the qualities requisite to become Learned she had not however been able to render him so He noted to him above thirty egregious faults that had started from him and hinted to him charitably said he that out of a desire to pass for the first in the Republick of Letters he must have read more and study'd more than all the rest together Ludovico Sforza being amaz'd at his having so formidable a Subject in his Colledge of Milan made a scruple of employing him any longer in Correcting of Children and drew him out of the Dust to cause him to compile the History of Milan But it was only to leave to Posterity a memorable Example that the being very Learned and perceiving the least Faults and Blunders of others was not sufficient to make a good Historian For tho' Merula has wrote with so much exactness and precaution the Work prescrib'd him that the greatest Critick cou'd not find any thing in it to carp at yet true it is that his Book is so dry and barren that those to whom the Authors Fame had given an itching to read it seldom but grutch'd the time they had spent in that amuzement This did not hinder him from being magnificently rewarded but as he was near ninety years of Age when he had finisht it none but his Heirs gain'd by the benefit that accru'd from his Performance Politian was the Man that got most by his Death He had publish'd the first Century of his Miscellanies and Merula being scandaliz'd at the audaciousness which seem'd to be in the word Century had threatned Politian to detach against him whole Regiments of Authorities and Passages to justifie the contrary of all he asserted but had only the leisure to rough-draw the Project Never Man came to be so admir'd for his Wit in so green a Youth as Angelius Politianus and never Man knew better how to preserve by just and unjust ways the Reputation he had acquir'd He was born at Florence and his Relations liv'd in such woful Poverty as constrain'd him to be of Giuliano's and Lorenzo de Medici's Retinue when they went to the Colledge and to wear their Liveries that he might have the conveniency of being there He had an ugly Face a huge big and long Nose his left Eye squinted but he had a pliant and flexible Wit and was finely and craftily Ambitious He never us'd so much Artifice to disguise himself save only with those