get before her Majesty and receive her at the Dome in the absence of Boncompagno the Archbishop When she was near the City they began to hear the noyse of the Artillery which continued till she got to the Palace At the gate she was received by all the Magistrates on horseback who were in their solemne robes After the like complements she had had in Ferrara she went to the Church of St. Peter which is the Cathedral and there alighting was received with the same ceremonies used to her in the Church of Ferrara after which she was carried in a chair to the Palace accompanied by all the retinue The Cardinal Legate who made such haste thither received her at the foot of the staires and in passing through the Hall of Farnese they found there in ranks on both sides above an hundred Ladies most splendidly adorned who all made low reverences to her Arriving at her lodging she a little while after saw the fires which were opposite to her chamber on a long and fine stand which was made for that purpose with Pyramids and a great figure signifying Faith with the Armes of the Pope of her Majesty and his Eminence among which were distributed several images of Lyons the Armes of Bologna The fires were extraordinarily fine and at the same time six thousand squibs of wilde-fire were seen flying from the summit of two towers After this the Queen went into the Hall of Hercules where sitting under the cloth of state on a throne prepared for her she saw the dancing where there were above a hundred faire Ladies most nobly apparreled The day following she went to see the Church of St. Dominique and there reverenced his body expressing a particular devotion to him and an equal esteem to this ancient and very noble Order Here at the Altar of the reliques she beheld the five books of Moses written in Hebrew in thin leather by the Prophet Esdras and her Majesty read some of the words She desired then to see the publick Schooles in which she heard an eloquent Oration in her honour by the Abbot Certani a person of great learning and vertue The Duke of Modena hearing the Queen was arrived in Bologna sent the Marqis Silvio Molza a Cavalier of great spirit and extraordinary parts in the quality of his Embassadour to wait on the Queen but it had no effect they could not agree of the pretensions he had Her Majesty staid two days in Bologna as she had done in Ferrara and the second day went to Masse to St. Michael in the wood without the gate of Saint Mamolo the famous convent of the Fathers of mount Olivet where her Majesty was much pleased in seeing that Cloyster painted by the most renowned Painters of Bologna Caracci and Reno and in the Sacristy the Saint Michael of Brasse the excellent workmanship of Albargi She visited likewise at her entrance into the Church the body of blessed Katherine of Bologna which is kept still by those all entire palpable and sitting without any help to hold it up Her Majesty being returned to the Palace the Colledge of Bologna presented her with the works in ten Volumes of Doctor Aldrovandi which she very much esteemed The same day the Queen dined in publick with the Cardinal they observing the same order as was held in Ferrara Many Ladies came masked to see the feast which was as sumptuous as can be imagined for the Legates noble minde omitted not any thing that was great and majestique The cheif Standard-bearer gave the napkin to her Majestie and Count Francis Charls Caprara nephew to Duke Piccolomini the General was both Carver and Cup-bearer both persons of high worth After dinner she visited the great Colledge of Spain founded long since by the famous Cardinal Gyles Albernozzi and about three houres in the night she went to the lodgings of the Colledge and thence to the Theater This was built for that purpose in the forme of a great ship the extremities of which arrived to the frontispiece o're the fish-market and o're part of the Palace through a great window of which her Majesty accompanied by the Cardinal passed o're a bridge very splendidly adorned where there were above 140 Ladies all equally resplendâ—nt with the lustre of their beauty and a rich mine of pearls and of jewels of inestimable value The Theater which was covered had certain great lights on the top and above 300 torches were regularly distributed here and there round about it together with other lesser lights which made it most resplendent The battlements of the Palace were deckt with several Carpets some of arras and others of silk of diverse colours After the appearance of the Masters of the Camp which were the Marquis Angelelli and Count Edward Pepoli both Senatours they beheld a great guilded Charriot come forth with 24 groomes apparrelled in cloath of silver with torches in their hands drawn by twelve horses most splendidly set out on which sat cloathed like Pallas Felsina representing Bologna for so it was called long since when it was the royal City of Toscany Somewhat lower stood Peace Fame and War which interlaced the song of Felsina who when she had walked up and down in the field stood still before the Queen to introduce the tilting She singing then said to applaud so great a Majesty the Triumviri who divided the World on the river Lavino not far from Bologna brought three squadrons of Cavaliers which running at the Ring and one against another might shew their respects to so deserving a Queen Then Felsina was silent and departing with her train by the Masters of the Camp three squadrons were brought in the one lead by Octavus Augustus the second by Lepidus and the third by Marcus Antonius each being composed of six Cavaliers Trumpets Pages and Groomâ—s going before with lighted torches in their hands every one of them extravagantly attired walked softly o're the field accompanied by two sticklers and two Cavaliers all in armour for the tilting to follow of one against another Their plumes and the crests of their helmets were high made of several pretious feathers which augmented the beauty and pompe of the shew The first squadron contained besides the two sticklers aforesaid the Counts Luigi Bentivoglio Marc ' Antonio Sampieri Hercules Malvezzi Philip Maria Bentivoglio the Marquis Hippolitus Bevilaqua the Marquis Caesar Tanara the Counts Lodovick Albergati Anthony Orsi and Alexander Fava all Cavaliers of great valour and birth In the second were the Counts Francis Charles Caprara Constance Maria Zambeccari Alphonsus Ercolani Jerome Caprara Hercules Isolani Anthony Gabrielli Anthony Joseph Zambeccari Felix Montecuccoli and Rinald Bovio whose sticklers were the Counts John Baptist Alberti and Hannibal Ranucci persons of great merit and vertue In the third were the Marquisses Andrew Paleotti and Guido Anthoni Lambertoni the Counts Henry Hercolani and Francis Maria Ghislieri and the Gentlemen Octavius Casoli Iohn Baptist Sampieri Alexander
THE HISTORY OF THE Sacred and Royal Majesty OF CHRISTINA ALESSANDRA QUEEN OF SWEDLAND With the Reasons of her late Conversion to the Roman Catholique Religion As also a Relation of the severall entertainments given her by divers Princes in her Journey to Rome with her magnificent Reception into that City LONDON Printed for T. W. and are to be sold at the Signe of the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard 1658. To the glory of the Age and Compendium of Honour and Nobility her Grace the Dutchess of RICHMOND and LENOX May it please your Grace THE golden-Apple on which was this Inscription be it given to the fairest Paris presented to Venus as surpassing the others in beauty The same condition is annexed to this History which belonging of right to the fairest most justly is presented to your Grace as surpassing all others in the beauty of the body and mind And whom should a Queen so renown'd for her vertues and eminent qualities make her addresses to if not to your Grace who like the glorious Sun among the lesser lights out-shines all other Ladies with the rayes of your Graces rare vertues and admirable parts These reflections Madam invited this great Princess to recurre to your Grace who like the River Nilus disdains to mix the waters she brings from a Paradise with any other streame Since the offering then Madam is no waies unworthy of your Graces noble Altar where Hecatombs are only to be sacrificed be pleased not to lessen it in your Graces esteem because presented by Madam Your Graces most humble and most devoted Servant IOHN BURBERY TO THE READER IN the Catastrophe of the accidents which still are reducing this Age into a large abridgment of all that are past the resolutions and talents of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland have an eminent place That a Queen by birth of a spirit so sublime and the Epilogue of all vertues should depose her Scepter voluntarily and fall at the feet of the Vicar of Christ to receive there in his blessings a crown of Paradise in such a resolution as too much surpasses the capacity of man and not only custome The World peradventure hath not seen any other that to purchase the true Faith hath abandoned his own Kingdoms and to be enriched with the Jewels of Heaven hath divested himself of the treasures of the earth I therefore have begun to compose a particular History of it and hitherto have gone on with delight for it contains not only a great Princesses rare qualities and Prerogatives but likewise the entertainments she hath till now received of the greatest Princes and Monarchs of Christendom so as it may truely be said Christina the great in her resolutions and receptions could meet with nothing equall to her great desert but the mind and piety of a Philip and an Alexander Some perhaps may think I have employed my Pen in certain little things not suitable to the Majesty of the History but let them remember the knowledge of individuums and the memories of particular men provided they deserved well of fame encrease still in credit and delight with Posterity In case they persist in the rigour of their scruples they will easily be satisfied if they read alone that part which pleases them most Farewell WE the Reformers of the study at Padoua having seen by the testimony of our Secretary that in the book intituled the History of the sacred Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland by Count Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato printed in quarto in Rome there is nothing repugnant to good manners nor the interests of Princes grant licence to Francis Baba to print it he observing the Laws in this case and presenting a Copy for the publick Library of Venice and another for that of Padoua In Witness whereof c. Anno Domini the 24. of May 1656. John Donado Reformer Andrew Pisani Procurator and Reformer FRANCIS VERDIZZOTTI SECRETARY AN INDEX Of the most remarkable things contained in this present HISTORY A DOn Antonio Pimentell goes into Swedland by order of his Catholique Majesty Advertisments given by the Queen to the new King of Swedland The affliction of the people for the Queens renouncing her Kingdoms The arrivall of the Queen of Swedland in Hambourg The arrivall of the Queen of Swedland in Antwerp The applauses with which she is received in Flandres The Arch Duke sends to complement the Queen and goes afterwards thither in Person Don Antonio Pimentel extraordinary Embassadour of his Catholique Majestie with the Queen of Swedland The assumption of Cardinall Fabius Chigi to the Papacie and the generall applauses for his exaltation The Marquis of Anspach visits her Majesty Auspurge and its description The absolution given her Majesty by my Lord Holstenius The Marquis Andreasi complements the Queen in the name of the Duke of Mantoua The arrivall of the Queen in Rome who went presently to kâ—ss his Holinesses feet The affability of the Queen Academies instituted by her Majesty in her own Palace The answer of Don Antonio Pimentel to the Queen B. THe Briefs of his Holiness consigned to my Lord Holstenius The Briefs for the Prince of Trent The Brief for the Arch-Duke of Inspruch The Brief of his Holiness to the Queen of Swedland The Brief of his Holiness to the Queen presented to her by the Nuntii at her entrance into the Churches Dominions The Brief of his Holiness to the Cardinall Legates a Latere Count Bucquoy complements the Queen in the name of his Catholick Majesty C. CHristina succeeds in the Kingdom of Swedland Her education and admirable wit She learns divers Languages makes great progress in learning begins to assist at the Councell and afterwards takes upon her the Government She herself administers the affairs and is beloved and feared She is a great lover of vertue despises all delicacie She makes War and then Peace with the King of Denmark She is respected by all the Princes of the World She hath divers inspirations She discovers the errours of the Lutherans The reasons which move her to the knowledge of the truth With her own vertue she makes herself capable of the truth She examins the life and condition of Luther She perceives the falsitie and lies spread by him She fortifies herself with some important examples She abhors heresie She thinks to turn Catholick She imparts her designe to Don Antonio Pimentel She trusts wholy in God She resolves to quit her Kingdoms Her generous Act. She goes privately to see Bruxels The ceremonies in receiving the Queen in the Church The Cavaliers of Verona which met her Majestie The Cavalcata of the Cardinal Legates in their going to Olgiata The complements of several Gentlemen to the Queen at the Vineyard of Pope Julius The Castle of St. Angelo is seen by the Queen The Colledge of Sapienza The Church of the Greeks The Roman Colledge The rare things in the said Roman Colledge The Comedy intituled the Triumph of piety acted in the Palace of the
one of the richest and cheifest of that famous City The day after overtaken by her traine she put on womens cloathes and received the visit of Don Balthasar Marcadero the Commander of the Citadell a person of cleare fame and great valour afterwards in order by the Magistrates of the City and the rest or the principal Gentlemen of that noble Countrey All flock'd to see her with equall Curiosity and respect and dazled with the splendour of her rare endowments and prerogatives were not able to veiw her with greater applause than that of an affectionate and reverent admiration The throngs of the Cityzens were for some dayes so great that they could hardly passe up and downe in the streets that were neare to her Court In the meane time the Arch-Duke the Prince of Conde the Duke of Lorraine and the Earle of Fuensaledagna with the rest of the Princes and Grandees design'd for the direction and Command of the Army in Flanders were all in the field beseiging the most important City of Arres very valiantly defended by the French and invaded by the Spaniards with great earnestness and vigour And though Cardinall Mazarine was most diligent intent to supply it with all necessaryes yet so great was the confidence of the Spanish Commanders that they verily believed to welcome this great Qâ—een with so glorious a victory With thoughts of this kind continuing that seige all the said three Princes sent persons expressly to assure her that they within few dayes disengag'd from that fortress would come and waire upon her with their presence as they did then with their hearts replenisht with joy for the happy arrivall of her Majestie The Earle of Ruquoy a Grandee of Spaine and a Gentleman of much worth design'd by his Catholique Majestie extraordinary Ambassadour to complement the Queen eight dayes after her arrivall in Antwerp gave a very good account to her Majestie of his Commission and was receiv'd by her with many demonstrations of esteem proportionable to his merit and the greatness of the sender But in the meane time the Cardinall having gather'd together the French Army and disposed the orders where no less his refined understanding and conduct than good fortune appear'd the circumvallation being broken and gain'd which by all was thought impenetrable free'd the tottering City to the very great glory and benefit of the Crowne of France His imperiall Highness retur'd then to Bruxelles on the eighth of September and the next day went to Antwerp to complement her Majestie in his person as he had done before with his letters The Queen receiv'd him at the foot of the staires conducted him to her lodgings made him sit downe oâ— against her in such anoâ—her chaire gave him alwayes the title of Highness and accompany'd him to the bottome of the same staires with reciprocal satisfaction still speaking in Italian The Arch-Duke stay'd in Antwerp one day and return'd the next to Bruxells When the Army was retyr'd into the garrisons the Prince of Conde likewise went to wait on her Majestie who as the first Prince of the royall blood of France pretended the Queen should receive and treat him with the formes and prerogatives she had us'd with the Arch-Duke He therefore sent before the President Viola one of the cheife slingers of the Parliament of Paris and the constantest follower of his party to visit her and discover her intention about his reception who related her Majestie would treat him in the forme due to Princes of his quality Viola was not satisfi'd with these generall words but would sound her farther insisting to pretend the same honours done to the Arch-Duke Whereupon the Queen offended perhaps at the diffidence he seemed to have of her warie and generous discreetness resolv'd to hold her owne refusing the Prince those acts of Civility of which as she afterwards declar'd she would have been liberall if he had not pretended to them as his due Viola then unable to compass the business in the manner pretended by the Prince found at last this expedient that his Highness should go visit her privately as he did being treated like a private Cavalier Francis Duke of Lorraine came afterwards received too privately by her Majestie the Earle of Fuensaldagna and diverse other Grandees of Spaine who had their reception in the forme us'd to them by the Catholique King causing them to be covered The tamburet which is a less seat granted usually by Queenes to Princesses of great quality was given to the Dutchesses of Ascot of Auray and the Princess of Ligni all Ladyes of Flanders who went to waite upon her being married to Grandees of Spaine The King of Scots sent likewise the Earle of Norwich to congratulate her arrivall and the Elector of Brandembourg Count Maurice of Nassau and others The Princess too of Conde sent her Gentleman to passe all due complements with her Majestie While the Queen stayd in Antwerp she still employ'd her selfe in noble entertainements sometimes passing her time in seing some morall representations and cheifly in taking notice of many vertuous persons who flockt from all parts to waite upon her Majestie and be knowne to her From the Hague came conceal'd the Queen of Bohemia marry'd heretofore to the Prince Elector Palatine and sister to Charles the first King of England with Princess Elizabeth her daughter and the princess of Orange and onely to see her as they did at a Comedy they being unwilling to be knowne not to be oblig'd perhaps to give her a visit without a returne of the reception they pretended Her Majestie went often to see the house of the Professed and the Colledge of the Iesuits where she saw represented Thyestes in Seneca as she had desir'd and another play intituled Manasses During her stay in Antwerp the Emperour sent to complement her Earle Raymund Montecucoli his Generall of the Horse a person of rare parts eminent fame The said Earle had been in Swedland a little before with the title of Gentleman sent thither by the Emperour to ratisfy the good correspondence of his Imperiall Majestie with that Crowne as likewise the freedom of a reciprocall commerce She receiv'd Montecucoli kindly declaring her selfe much oblig'd to the goodness of Cesar for the honuor he did her whose letters she answer'd with all due respect remanding this Gentleman to Vienna with all satisfaction On the seventeenth of August her Majestie went concealed to Bruxells and lay in the house of Madame Pimentel She not onely saw the palace but twice too the Colledge of the Iesuits and thei ' faire and great library where she shewâ—d her great learning and the very great knowledge she had of rare bookes and grave sciences She stai'd foure dayes in Bruxells and visited there the Monastery of the Carmelite discalceat Nunns of the order of St. Teresa the Ladyes or religious of Berlaymont the principall Monastery of Flanders and the most noble Colledge of the
the Queen leading her by the arme to her chair in which she was carried to the Palace his Eminence with the Nuntij aforesaid going before her in his Coach At the staires stood eight Pages with lighted torches and on the top at the entrance into the hall a very fair Company of the principall Ladies met and paid their respects to her Majesty who encompassing her did reverence and attend her to her lodgings whither the Cardinall conducted them who taking his leave she was left to her repose In the mean time the artificiall fire-workes began to Play in the Piazza which with admirable order was light all the night and the streets too abounded with lights The same evening the Gentlemen and Ladies had a ball in the Queens Chamber where the foresaid Counts Francis Maria and Lodowick Santinelli Brothers danced a galliard with the Lady Mary Camilla Disploratatii but because they danced with their Cloakes and their swords the Queen desir'd them for her greater satisfaction to lay them aside to the end she might the better observe them which accordingly they did danced a galliard which so pleased her Majesty that she seemed desirous to see them Dance the Canaries so as they with the Lady Emilia Vrbani performed it smoothly and with admirable grace Before they began the said ball the Cardinall Legate presented to the Queen to whom it was dedicated a Printed booke of severall verses composed by Count Francis Maria Santinelli the greatest part of which were in praise of her Majesty who was much taken with it and kindly accepted it commending it as the birth of a great spirit and eminent wit as it generally was held Her Majesty sup't afterwards privately in her Chamber where she heard most rare consorts of instruments among which was a violin and arch-lute which delighted her extreamly whereupon she received one of them into her service called Anthony Maria Ciacchi of Sienna The next Morning she went to the Monastery of St. Catharine heard Mass in that Church where she heard the rare Musique of those Nunns two of which are reputed very exquisite The went afterwards into the Monastery to the great consolation and extraordinary content of the Nuns who could not praise enough her Majestyes affability and courtesie That day she din'd in publick with the Cardinall sitting under a cloth of State in the same manner they had us'd in other places Count Francis Maria Santinelli was her Sewer of honour after the fashion of Germany as the Prince of St. Gregory had been in Ferrara and Count Bernardin Ubaldini her Cupbearer Count Hanibal Thiene presented her the napkin and Signior Francesco Maria Bonamini chang'd her plates After dinner her Majesty took pleasure in beholding a Spanish Ciaeona which was danc'd with a grace agility and incomparable dexterity by Count Lodowick Santinelli and she was likewise pleas'd to like certain Playes call'd the forces of Hercules perform'd by some persons most nimbly and handsomely Having afterwards been abroad to see some other Churches and Monasteryes of Nuns in her return to the Palace she was introduced to behold some Academical and Comicall representations the extravagancy and novelty of which pleas'd wonderfully the Genius and gust of her Majesty so as 't is no wonder this Princess said afterwards in publick at Rome that of all the great honours she receiv'd in the places where she pass'd none arriv'd to the excess of her satisfaction but those that were done her in Pesaro All the compositions were the fruits of the wit and the Pen of the foresaid Count Francesco Maria Santinelli a Cavalier as conspicuous for his ancient Nobility as esteem'd for the vivacity of his spirit and rare parts These actions were ended about seven hours in the night at what time her Majesty supp'd privately and went to her rest On the following morning the fifth of the month the Queen with her accustomed civility honoured the Nuns of St. Mary Magdalen with her presence hearing Mass in their Church and the excellent Musick they made her After dinner she departed to Sinigaglia attended by the Cardinall in Coach with the same traine of Coaches Gentlemen on horseback and guards of the Switzers the foot Souldiers standing within and without the City in squadrons and files and discharging from the walls many Canon Morter-pieces and Muskets as they had done at her Majesties entrance Pesaro is a noble City populous full of Traffick and abounding with Gentlemen of great worth and civility 'T is seated on the Sea in a chearfull Scituation and very pleasant Prospect all in a plain and for many miles severed from the Hills and the Mountains The walls are good with rampards and strong Bullwarks besides a fine rock built by Giouanni Sforza long since who at other times was Master of the Place The Port though decay'd is of use to little Boats carrying Merchandize to Venice and other parts This City was last of all possest by the noble Family of Rovere but it fayling in our dayes of male issue return'd to the Church as feudatory to it Here for 9. months in the year the Dukes us'd to dwell who had for that purpose built a Palace truly royall The Queen took the way of Fano on the Confines of which she found my Lord Bargellini of Bologna a Person of great worth and Governour of the City accompany'd by Signior Luigi Rixadducci and Count Hanibal Montevecchio the principal Gentlemen The other stay'd behind to waite on the Magistrates of which Signior Scipio Forastieri was chief and the Prior Alexander Castracani and Cavalier Peter Soldati To receive her with more honour a Gate wall'd up was open'd and beautify'd with severall Ornaments and among other things they saw under his Holynesses arms the following inscription D. T. V. His Holyness Alexander the seventh ruling P. O. M. Peter Bargellinus the Governour in the year 1655. that Chrâ—stina Queen of Swedland in her passage through the City might have a nobler entrance caus'd the Gate to be open'd for her Majesties reception Here she was receiv'd by the Magistrates accompany'd by a noble and numerous traine and attended to the Palace of the Governour where the Coaches standing round in the Court her Majesty not alighting rare sweet meats were presented her in many silver Basons of which she tasting some gave two Basons to Count Hanibal Thiene giving order the rest should be distributed among the Cavaliers that accompany'd her Fano is a little City encompass'd with strong walls partly antique and partly moderne towards the Seas with a Bulwark erected by Pope Julius the third in a plain Scituation on the shore famous for the Temple of Fortune who there was ador'd and for the remains of the Arch of Augustus Not far off runs the river Metaurus and there are yet the relicks of some memorable places for the accidents occurr'd in times past There Asdruball the brother of Hanibal of Carthage was kill'd and Totila King of the
qualities of the Cardinall a Person abounding with the vertues sutable to an Ecclesiasticall magnanimous and accomplished Prince This Gentleman nephew to Cardinall Lodowick Zacchia of happy memory was born in Rome and finish't there his studies in humanity and philosophy in the Roman Colledg under the fortunate discipline of the Jesuits accomplishing those of the law in Perugia where he was in the mean time made Clerk of the Chamber by Pope Vrbane the eight When he had administred many offices of that Tribunall he likewise performed with Cardinall Raggi the charge of Treasurer in the place of Cardinall Rapaccioli who was Commissary of the Souldiers after which on the 12th of July 1643. he was preferred to the Purple with the title of Saint George and Pope Innocent the tenth conferred on him the Bishopprick of Assisi This City is seated on the side of the Mountain Asius which in a bending line by the side of a high hill derived from the said Mountain Asius extendeth it self a mile long from the East to the West lying wholly towards the South and though at the head and the shoulders 't is environned with Mountains not uneasy and rich in fruitfull Pastures it hath fertil hills at the slanke and finely arayed and a most pleasant plain at the feet which no less for it's greatness than fertility is one of the most beautifull and best parts of Jtaly Her Majesty returned to Foligno about three howres in the night being met by the Governour the Magistrates and part of her own train which staid there the night being resplendent with many fireworks and her Majesty Supping privately The Morning after the 14th of the month she went to the Dome at the gate of which she was received in the usuall forme by my Lord Montecatini the Bishop of that City That Church was very splendidly adorned where her Majesty heard Mass then visiting the said Church of the Nunns where she heard a little Musique she returned to the Palace and dined there in publique for their satisfaction who desired to see her at dinner The end of the Fifth Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Sixth Book The Argument FRom Foligno the Queen goes to Spoleto where she is royally treated by Cardinall Fachenetti She goes to Terni where she is waited on by my Lord Bonfiglioli the Governour of that City she passes to Gallese and is met by my Lord Visconte Governour of the Patrimony she advances to Caprarola where she receives the complements of the Spanish Ambassadour and thence goes to Bracciano and finally to Olgiata whither the Cardinall Legates a latere come to complement her Majestie conduct her to Rome where she makes her private entrance and is received by the Pope with all courtesie She makes her solemn entrance into Rome AFter dinner her Majesty departed from Foligno to the Confines being accompany'd by my Lord Marazzani and all his retinue and waited on to the gate by the Magistrates of the City and saluted by the Canon Mortar-pieces and Muskets the Souldiers standing in squadrons and rankes in severall places Then continuing her journey through that fruitfull Valley she dismissed on the Confines the Prelate aforesaid seeming very highly satisfyed with him And here she was met by my Lord Capecelatro a Neopolitan brother to the Duke of Sejano Governour of Spoleto who having with him a great traine of Gentlemen and two troops of horse complemented her Majesty Three miles without Spoleto Cardinall Caesar Fachenetti the Bishop of the City came out to meet the Queen accompanyed by my Lord Faustus Poli of Spleto the Bishop of Amelia the Governour of Orvieto the Prince of Gallicano and many Gentlemen The two Prelates aforesaid were there expresly to assist in this service the Cardinall The Prince came from Rome on the 11. in the evening on purpose to waite on her Majesty and being himself lodged in the Palace of the Bishop gave place to her Majesties traine and retiring into the house of a Gentleman his friend met with the opportunity of paying his respects to the Queen who received him very courteously having known long before his deserving and eminent qualities The Cardinall having complemented her Majesty returned into his Coach and went before to be ready to receive her in his Bishoprick who before she arrived at the gate found many thousand Souldiers in squadrons who saluted her with volleys of shot The Magistrates appearing with the Pompe peculiar to the sprightly inhabitants of Spoleto presented her Majesty with their humble respects at the gate of the City who caused the Coach to be stop't and kindly received them Diverse Arch triumphalls were erected in the streets which were all adorned with Figures Inscriptions and other sprightly Mottos Among all the foresaid Arches the remarkablest was that which was repaired o're an ancient gate of the City where besides the Inscription set there in honour of the Queen there was another alluding to the place where Haniball of Carthage after the battail won at Thrasymenus desiring to advance towards Rome was put to flight whereupon the same gate retains to this day the name of the gate of the flight The Queen passed through the Piazza reduced into the form of a Theater The circuite of the laterall Portici was enclosed with two great gates in each of which were Inscriptions Mottos fine Figures This Theater was made at the charge of the Gentlemen of the City incited by the generous example of the Cardinall who first of all contributed to the worke They did it supposing the Queen would have come thither by night the better to see the fireworkes which were plac't upon it and played the same evening On the great gates of the Theater were the Arms of the Queen with severall Mottos of the Kingdom of Swedland on the one side her Majesty and on the other the King her Father both on horseback The Queen being entered the Palace of the Bishop met a very noble company of Ladies who having had before of the Cardinall a splendid collation of sweet-meats were assembled together to wait on her Majesty At her entrance into the Hall they all kissed her hands and were received by her with the greatest affability her Majesty being pleased they should be present and sit at a musicall consort which was in her own Chamber and served for her Majesties entertainment that night The subject represented Faith triumphing which having sent three Persons to Sing the Queens Prayses appeared at last inviting her to enter into the little ship of St. Peter The Queen with some of her Domestiques lay in the Bishops Palace the Nuntij the Ambassadour Pimentel Count Montecuccoli and the other cheife Gentlemen being distributed in severall private houses in every one of which were Gentlemen of the City deputed to their service The direction of these lodgings was committed to the care of Signior Joseph