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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42641	Subsidium peregrinantibus, or, An assistance to a traveller in his convers with 1. Hollanders, 2. Germans, 3. Venetians, 4. Italians, 5. Spaniards, 6. French : directing him after the latest mode, to the greatest honour, pleasure, security, and advantage in his travells : written to a princely traveller for a vade mecum / by Balthazar Gerbier.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1665 (1665)	Wing G572; ESTC R25458	45,784	144

yet be Amicus unius inimicus nullius It will prove a good maxime in them with that Nation which hath nothing more rife on its tongue then No ti fidare not to trust as to fix their speculations on that which without any offence or perill of tell-tales may please their sight to wit the rare carved Statues and Pictures placed in and about the well built Palaces and Churches First as for Pictures to view them in order those of Perin del Vago in Castel St Angelo then proceed towards the plaine on the which the famous St Peters Church is built observe there the great Piramide on the left side of that plain and in the Church the Pictures of the Cavalier Balioni Pormarancio Passignani Del Castello The Pieté in Marble of Michael Angelo the day of Judgement by the same Angelo painted in the Popes Chappel the Altar and Sepulcher of St Sicilia all of Jaspis and other rare stone in the Popes Chambers the matchles pictures of Raphael d' Urbin thence make towards A Bel Vidor there see the Lauconte the Apollo Cleopatra Lantino and a Marble called el Toiso Then making his circuit to go out of the great St Spirito repaire to St Pietro Monto●● there see the Picture on the great Altar painted by Raphael d'Urbin and the Figure of Christ in the pillar drawn by Frar Bastiano a picture of Georgio Vassari in the Sacresti one of Michael Angelo Then go to the Capitol there see Marc Aurelius on Horse-back In the great room of the Capitol the Battail painted in Fresco by Josepin Then to Monte Cavalo there see the two Alexanders with the Bucephalus one made by Phidias the other by Parxitiles Then to Porta-pia there see the Tombe of Bacchus of Porphyr stone of an extreme bignes and entire peece Then repaire to the Toure of Dioclesian To the vigna of Cardinal del Monte see there a great number of Statues Pictures and Limnings of Don Julio Clovio Then go to see il Col●sso and the Triumphal Arch of Constantin The Theater of Marcel at the Cardinal-Saveli The Palace of Farnese see there the rare Statues called the Hercules the Gladiator the Flora the ancient Torro with divers figures in one piece in the Gallery above staires the rare painting in white and black of Hannibal Carasa and diverse rarities in the Cabinet a most rare book limned by Don Giulio Clovio Thence go to Piazza Colonia see the Colomn of Anthonio Pio thence in the palace called Pietro see there the Colomne of Trajan the Emperour all graven with figures about it then see the famous Pantheca of Marc Agrippa the great Market place called Navona see there the Church called Minerva and therein the figure of Christ carved by Michael Angelo then go to the place Fiametta there see a Pallace with rare pictures of Polydor thence to the Palace of Cardinall Bourgesi to see a great number of Statues and pictures as also very rare draughts then to Cardinal Oldebrandini where there are likewise an infinite number of Statues and pictures then crosse over the way to the Palace of Guisi there see the rare pictures of Raphael then to Monte Giordano to the Ursins and see there the works o Bronsino and many other rarities then go to Cardinal Cresentio where are many rare works of Holbein and Michael Angelo then the Garden of pleasure of the Cardinal Borgesi all beset with rare antick statues and within garnisht with many rare pictures You shall see in the prime Churches first in that of Scala a very rare picture of Gerardo of Pomerantio in the Church la Consolation pictures of Durante del Borgio and Tadeo Sucari in that of St Laurenzo in Domo the picture of St Laurence of Frederico Sucaro of Grosepi in the Church of St Silvester on Monte Cavalo one of Palma in the Church called la Madona del Populo two pictures of Michael Angelo Carravagio of Hannibal and Frobastian del Piombo in the Church la Trinita di monti two rare pictures of Daniel di Voltera some pictures in Fresco on the Walls of Perin del Vago and Tadeo in the Chesa nova of Berossi of Giosepino of Scipion Gaetano the Figure of Christ of Michael Angelo of St Marco of Frederigo and of Raphael da Regio in St Gregorio martyro di Sancti of Guirlo Ren at St Giovane di fiorentino of Pasignani In the Roman Colledge an Annunciation in fresco of Frederigo Sucari in the Church called de Lanema of Julio Romano and Carlo Venetian at the Church la Place the Sybills of Raphael of Baldesar di Siena an Anunciation of Marcelo Giosepino Mutiano Albano the Cieling of Frabrastiano at Sancta Elizabetha of Guido at the Madona de la consolation of Pomerantio at St Augustin a Virgin Mary with two Pilgrims of Michel Angelo di Caravagio a St Augustin of Raphael c. And let not my Princely Traveller think it strange that the Italians will extoll these Statues and Pictures and so affect them as if nothing more glorious and more worth of admiration the first reason is that as the Roman Church makes it a Church policy the second that those Statues and Pictures before mentioned have been made by the rarest hands of men as ever lived since the memory of Bezaleel of the Tribe of Juda and Alolia of the Tribe of Dan as also Hiram of the Tribe of N●phtali to work in Sculpture in Solomons Temple by what spirit these Romans wrought since the Gospel was preached I do leave to those whose vocation it is to treat of hidden Mysteries only I shall make bold to say that if my Princely Traveller observes the day of Judgement painted against the Cieling of the Cathedral at Munster he will see the Divell represented in a red velvet Chaire with a Crown on his head and a Scepter in his hand whom the Painter sitting one day on his sc●ffold alone busy painting the Divell was as the story runs constrained to paint in that manner being otherwise threatned to have his neck broak and that thereon it may be thought the painter was not inspired with the spirit of God except the said representation was to serve for an Embleme that the black spirit hath an Empire over Legions of men But with what spirit the Painters of our age do represent at the belly of a Lyon Rampant which as the Unicorne is one of the supporters of the Kings Armes a red thing exposed to the full view of many Virgins and chast mothers of Children who cannot well behold such an aspect without a blush I leave to loose Christians to expound I wish others would commānd I mean the Church wardens the painter to spare his red colour and forbeare the forestalling that offensive needles distinction of male and female in such a place wherein those who by the Anglican Church are called Idolatrous do not put any thing but what may move the people to a devotion The Italians indeed excell