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A89931	The scarlet gown or the history of all the present cardinals of Rome. Wherein is set forth the life, birth, interest, possibility, rich offices, dignities, and charges of every cardinal now living. Also their merits, vertures, and vices· Together with the cariage of the Pope and court of Rome. Written originally in Italian, and translated into English by H.C. Gent.; Giusta statera de'porporati. English.	N. N.; Cogan, Henry.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1653 (1653)	Wing N53; Thomason E1433_1; ESTC R202993	62,278	177

himself too much interressed in certain differences about territories between some of his Church and others the creatures of Donna Olimpia in the City of Vitenbo His Nephew being Governor of Spoleti was deprived thereof and never since hath had any charge at all To conclude this Cardinal is poor and proud XXX Rinaldo d'Este RInaldo d'Este a Modenese and brother to the Duke of Modena This Prince was promoted to the Scarlet Gown at the instance of the Emperour by Vrban the eighth after which promotion the warre of Italy fell out between the Duke of Parma and the Barberini in regard whereof though all differences were wholly composed yet hath he still shewed himselfe an enemy to the Barberini and therefore in all the time that they raigned he would never come to take the Hat which afterwards he received from the hands of Innocent the tenth being present in the conclave at his election Some moneths being past the said Cardinall tooke notice that the Austrians made divers Congregations about the interest of that Crown in the Pallace of Albernoz whereunto his Eminencie was never called nor invited as if they accompted him altogether indiffident now one day there was a consistory to be held concerning the interest of Portugal wherin some course was to be taken for the provision of those Churches in the name of that King and the Spanish Ministers had by the Catholique Kings order forbidden all the Cardinalls of their faction from going to it especially the Cardinall of Este was by the Duke of Savelli the Emperours Embassadour advised by no meanes to come at it but he would not obey giving him this for an answer That as the Spaniards had esteemed his person of no consideration in their Congregations so his presence would be of as little consideration in the Consistorie therefore he would goe unto it Upon this occasion then he openly declared himselfe distasted with the Spaniards and he had a brieve granted to him for the protection of the Kingdome of France whereupon this Cardinall of Este published a manifest containing the reasons he had for his declaring himselfe French which was answered by the Spaniards and replyed unto by the Cardinall who tooke downe the Austrian Armes from his Pallace and in the place thereof set up the most Christian Kings This Este began to defend the interest of the Barberini because they had offered him the Abbacie of Honantala whereunto hee made some claime wherefore the Pope said one day unto him these words My Lord I see you labour much to protect the Barberini and I doe not know the cause of such a mutation for you alwaies contraried them heretofore and now you stand for them but I veri●y beleeve you doe it out of interest for that they will resigne unto you the Abbacie whereunto you have so long pretended or for some other end howsoever know that though it be in them to resigne it the passing of the Brieve thereof is in us Este hearing this thus answered I doe not pretend blessed Father to defend the Barberini for any interest of mine but to supplicate your Holiness for just things wherefore when as my abiding at court shall be displeasing unto you to give you satisfaction I will be gone To this the Pope said without any other reply Bee you blessed which in plaine termes is as much as to say God be with you and at the same instant the Cardinall getting into a Caroach with sixe horses went to Caprarola and from thence to Modena his Country Afterwards Este understanding that the Admirall of Castile was come to Rome as Embassador extraordinary from the Catholique King to yeeld obedience to the Pope and that he had declared hee would visit all the Cardinalls except him the said Este hee repaired againe to the Court where by reason of divers differences that fell out between him and that Ambassador they came to armes and waged what on the one side and what on the other above six hundred persons so that there was a great combustion in Rome and some daily slaine as is more amply delivered in a little printed relation thereof but the Pope raised men to suppresse this tumult and so it was quieted by the meanes of certaine interposing Princes but first this poore Lord for the maintayning of his souldiers was fain to pawne his jewells to the Cardinall Queva for the sum of two and twenty thousand crowns by reason the mony which he expected from France came not time enough to him and for that the Duke his brother could not supply him sufficiently in regard his state was much exhausted by the former warre with the Barberini This Cardinall is bountifull enough but his purse failes him and will not permit him to doe as he would do he is of a good life very conversable merry and friendly XXXI Francesco Peretti FRancesco Peretti alias Cardinall Montalto he is the Nephewes Son of Sixtus quintus of happie memorie This Lord was the onely sonne of the Prince Perétti who being old proposed to give a wife to Francesco that was in love with a Lady of the House of Cesi wherewith he acquainted his father who put him in good hope and accordingly went treated and concluded the marriage not for his Son but for himselfe for the old dotard being infinitly taken with the Angelicall sight of a most beautifull Lady thought her more fitter for himselfe than for his sonne Francesco seeing he was in this sort betrayed and ill intreated by his Father departed in a manner desperate and secretly from the Court and made himselfe a Priest by which meanes the father deceasing not long after without heires and all his States falling to Francesco upon his death the family of the Peretti will be extinct This Lord used much diligence to get the Scarlet Gowne but could not attaine it because Urban was displeased with him for that he would neither give nor sell unto him the delicious Villa of Mentana Montalto would not give it unto him least the World should say that so deserving a person as himself attained to the Hat by briberie and so was contented rather to be without it The most part of the States he possesseth are scituated in the Kingdom of Naples for which cause he is devoted to the Catholique Crown and hath many times supplyed that Majestie with mony for the service of his Warres Hs is Prince of the City of Venafro and Count of Celano enjoying also many places in the State of the Church The King of Spain did oftentimes desire the Scarlet Gown of Pope Urban for this Lord but was by him continually refused at length being earnestly prest by the King of France who demanded it also for Giulio Mazzarini the Pope that he might not seem to be too much affected to the French did at one and the same time promote both Mazzarino and Montalto as declared Nationals and nominated by France and Spain He is a rich Lord and bountifull keepes a Royal

Raggi adhered to the adverse party and therefore began to demonstrate unto his honourable Lordship many lively reasons for the maintainance thereof alledging divers Authors and in particular said that the Codice in such a Law made good his Plea My Lord Raggi in regard that which the Proctor affirmed was prejudicial to the party he favoured conceived according to his ignorant opinion that the Codice was some witness to be produced in judgement and therefore said unto the Proctor these precise words I will throughly chastise this Codice and then demanded of him where he was because he would have him apprehended and sent to the Gallyes The Proctor answered that he was to be found in his Clients Advocates house whereupon he commanded a Notary to send some Officers along with the Proctor to the said Advocates house to apprehend the Codice which being accordingly performed the Codice was delivered unto them who thought it was some prohibited book and that therefore they were ordered to seize upon it so they carried it to my Lord Raggi who was then Auditor of the Chamber and the Proctor being arrived there with them opened the book and found out the Law by him before cited which Raggi seeing remained like a statue quite besides himself Now the sport and pastime that was made of this matter throughout the City came to the eares of Urban the eighth who was ready to burst with laughing at it Another time it hapned that another Proctor came before him to defend another cause at his house which was just opposite to the Capranick College where were divers mad wags who as often as they saw him look out of his window cryed out Bragone bragone that is great breeches or slops so that after he was made Cardinal the common people ever after called him as they had done Bragone Now whilst the Proctor was attentive in pleading of his cause he answered the Scholars of the said Colledge saying the Galleys the Galleys The Proctor beleeving that he spake in that manner against his Client answered My honorable Lord the poor man my Client deserves not the punishment of the Galleys but in the mean time Raggi seeing those too insolent Scholars continue on still mocking him cryed out with a loud voice Not the Galleys but the Gallows which the Proctor hearing said as it were vext My Lord since you will needs send to the Galleys and hang one that no waies deserves it you may doe as you please and so went away from him Before he was made Cardinal he caused a Cardinals garments to be made for him and putting them on he walked up and down his house and asked of his friends how they became him and whether he did not walk gravely enough in them And out of the great desire he had to be a Cardinal he went one day to the Pope who loved him for his harmless simplicity and after he had kissed his foot he said Holy Father make me a Cardinal and so give satisfaction to the poor old man my Father After he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown he went to thank his Holyness and imbracing him said I cannot chuse but hugge and kiss you for joy that you have made me a Cardinal Pope Urban the eighth delighted so much in this man as can hardly be exprest the truth whereof doth appear by the effects for he not onely made him a Cardinal but also at his instance gave the Treasurorship General to Lorenzo Raggi his Nephew unto whom for a closing up of all other his extravagancies he said openly Nephew if you will arrive unto that which I have attained unto you must labour to carry your self and do as I have done Whereat not onely all the standers by but even his Nephew himself could not forbear laughing Not long after the Treasurorship was conferred on Lorenzo the Cardinal his Uncle died and made his Brother the Marquesse Raggi his heir for which cause there hath been a good while some distast between the two brothers the Treasuror and the Marquess The said Lorenzo Raggi was in the time of Urban Superintendant of the Impositions laid upon the State Ecclesiastical during which charge of his there fell out many disorders for in the Barbarini War the Souldiers could not have their pay so that two dayes after Innocent the tenth was assumed to the Papacy those Souldiers that were appointed for the guard of the Conclave began to mutinie because his Holyness having ordained that every one of them should have four moneths pay and so be dismissed Raggi would give them but two wherewith they being very much incensed fell furiously to assaulting the house he was in which they sacked and plundered all the money they found in it chasing the said Raggi into Don Tadeos Palace where he shut up himself for fear of his life but the souldiers besieged him in it and were bringing two peeces of Cannon to beat down the gates had not Innocent the tenth newly elected with his prudence given remedy thereunto Howsoever his Holyness was much offended with him for this business and every body thought that he would have deprived him of his charge and made him resign up his Treasurors place but afterwards at the intercession of divers persons the matter went no further and in the end he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown in the secret consistory of the fourth of October 1647. This Cardinal is young about some five and twenty years of age and of a good conversation but ambitious and covetous He is not over-learned nor ignorant but holds the mean betwixt both XIV Francesco Maidalchini FRancesco Maidalchini a native of the City of Viterbo and Nephew by her Brother to the Lady Olimpia the Sister-in-law of Pope Innocent the tenth This Cardinal was a youth void of all manner of conversation not being able to carry himself with any civility and therefore he was kept in a Colledge to learn not onely humane letters but also good manners Suddenly upon the making of Innocent the tenth Pope the Lady Donna Olimpia his Aunt procured an Abbots place for him with which he lived reasonably well but altogether unknown to the world Afterwards the Lord Camillo Pamphilio Sonne to the same Lady Donna Olimpia and the Popes onely Nephew being promoted to the Scarlet Gown it hapned that by the death of the Prince Don Paolo Borghese the Lady Donna Olimpia Aldobrandina Princess of Rossana his Wife became a Widdow with whose beauty and riches the Cardinal Pamphilio was so taken as he abandoned the Scarlet Gown and married her But the poor Prince Don Camillo was much troubled thereupon for that by the Papal Buls it was ordered that the Cardinals which renounced their Hats and took Wives should not enter into the Roman Court for a certain prefixed time of some moneths Howbeit he obeyed in hope he should obtain of the Pope his Uncle a dispensation for his return unto the Court But Donna Olimpia his Mother considering that

receive the due reward of his labours And being arrived at Rome after his continuance there some weeks he resolved cunningly to try his fortune by craving leave as he did to go unto his Residence to the end that by the answer the Pope should give him he might conjecture what his good or bad disposition was towards him and so might afterwards direct his life accordingly But Urban not onely gave him his benediction with both hands but 〈…〉 sayd unto him My Lord goe the more cheerfully because we will not forget your deserts Which Caraffa hearing absented himself from the Court and arriving at his Residence he never went from it untill his Holyness after some ten or eleven years past of his Papacy caused him to be called to the Court in the year 1642. so as all the world was perswaded that it was to promote him unto the Scarlet Gown but being arrived there it was published that he was come to visit the Temple of the Apostles and not called by his Holyness and the occasion thereof was because the Colonnesi foreseeing that the Scarlet Gown was designed for him upon his arrival returned anew to press the Pope that he should not promote him and among the rest Donna Anna Barbarina Wife to Don Tadeo went unto him and with reiterated prayers and much weeping perswaded Urban not to make him Cardinal as indeed he did not But Urban himself repented him of it for he was heard one day to utter these precise words God forgive him who was the cause that I did not make Pier Luigi Caraffa Cardinal and this he sayd many times according to report howsoever he was fain to goe away from Rome as he came but Innocent the tenth when as in the second Promotion he promoted his Nephew gave him the Scarlet Gown because he knew him worthy of that dignity and Caraffa himself expected it from his hands as soon as he heard of his Holyness assumption to the Papacy for he well remembred these words which he spake to him when as in the time of Urban he was departing towards the Residence of his Church My Lord it grieves me much that your Lordship goes from Court with so little satisfaction not having received the deserved reward of your labours Unto whom Caraffa answered I will pray our Lord God that he will make me worthy to receive it from your hands to this Pamphilio replyed I have no such pretension but be assured if it should happen to be so you shall be one of the first I will think upon as indeed it fell out for after the promotion of his Nephew he was the next that he gave the Hat unto being at that time in his bishoprick of Tricaria and besides his Merits there was a certain obligation of kindred between them for whilst Innocent was a Prelate and Nuntio at Naples having brought along with him thither all his Family together with his brother and his wife his Nephew called Camillo Pamphilio the now Husband of the Princess Rossano was born in the sayd city of Naples and the Prince Don Tiberio Caraffa this Cardinals brother was his Godfather This person is most deserving both for his own good qualities and the services he hath done to the Apostolick Sea He is exceeding well verst in all matters of the Consistories and Congregations his Votes are held in great esteem and the Pope makes much account of him so doth the sacred College and every one else He is a man of approved goodness of life and hath alwayes shunned conversations for the avoyding of scandals he seeks as much as may be to live retired devoutly reverencing God and making all his Family to doe the like and it is held for certain by them which know him that he is still a Virgin This Cardinal hath in the sacred College no Enemies either secret or open unless it be the Colonnesi who as before would not have had him Cardinal so doe they not now for certain desire he should rise to the Papacy but will use all their force and power to keep him from it He would be a good Pope for the benefit not onely of the Roman Church but of all Christendome He hath many and divers Nephews but the most beloved and nearest to him are the Sonnes of the Count Celano of the House of Piccolomini and those of the Marquess of Ansé Howbeit if ever he should come to be Pope Teatino would be the reigning Cardinal unto whom he hath resigned the Bishoprick of Tricario a man Learned of good Life and great Authority The Prince of Bisignano Don Tiberio Caraffa his Brother is Knight of the Golden-Fleece He is curteous affable of an exemplary life and very charitable so that for his noble qualities he is well looked upon and universally beloved of all the City of Naples which calls him Pater Patriae for that he favours the poor so much VII Federico Sforza FEderico Sforza four and forty years of age a Roman Nobleman and Brother to the Duke of that Surname He was a Prelate in the College of the participating Protonotaries in the time of Urban and had no other imployment than to be Vice-Legat in Avignon being sent thither by the Cardinal Antonio the Legat with an intent to promote him also to the Cardinalship but it did not follow for some private interests Innocent the tenth for that he would not see a House so renowned and so well affected unto him to be without the Scarlet Gown made him Cardinal He is a man of good understanding but not very rich and therefore somewhat miserable His Holyness after the flight of the Cardinal Antonio made him Vicechamberlain of the holy Church He is a jovial Lord loves Comedies and Feasts and in particular when he was a Prelate he delighted much in company His Inclination is French for two reasons the first because he was Vice-Legat at Avignon and the second for that there is continually seen in his Palace great store of French but he seems to be neutral except it be for the Pope Others say that he will become Spanish in regard of the feudes and estates which Duke Sforza his brother possesseth in the State of Milan being lately too left heir of many Gastles by the death of a Milanese Lord his Kinsman He is no great friend of Cardinal Antonio because he caused him upon hope of making him Cardinal to sell him at a very low rate the Palace of Sforza's Court since called Cardinal Antonio's but being afterwards given by the said Antonio to the Queen of France it is now named the Royal Palace where the Ambassador of the most Christian King resides and where also the Princes and Lords that come out of France doe usually lodge VIII Tiberio Cenci TIberio Cenci a Roman fifty five years old he was a Bishop and promoted to the Scarlet Gown at the instance of the Prince Borghese Nephew to Paul the fifth as the nearest of his Kinsmen that was capable of that

Signoria of Venice which highly account of him He is a Lord endowed with many excellent qualities is very courteous in salutes and entertainments loves not light conversations is a man studious and curious but his curiositie ceases when matters of interest are handled All the time that he was at Court he was never seen to give any alms for which he was blamed but it may well be that he delights to give in secret that he may not appear vain-glorious This Cardinal cannot be Pope in hast for two reasons the one is because he is a Venetian and the other is because he is too young He is not devoted to any Crown but onely to his Republique and his vote will be alwaies at the disposing thereof XXXI Pietro Donato Cesis PIetro Donato Cesis of a most Noble Roman Family he was Clerk of the Chamber was also made Treasuror General of the holy Church and afterwards promoted by Urban to the Scarlet Gown and sent by him Legate to Perugia at such time as the War was made against the Princes of Italy The Apostolicall Chamber whilst he had the administration of it was well served and not oppressed as it had been by so many others which robbed it In this said Legateship he caried himself very wisely but with rigor He is a man of a good and sincere life and may be one day Pope being a Roman He hath no hair on his Chin so that he seems to be an Eunuch and comming to be greyhaired he would look like one of those antient Popes and not without cause was there a Pasquil made of him during the Vacancie of the Sea which said Cesis is made Pope verily he will be a Pope de Malangonate He would be no bad Pope for that he is a lover of the poor and a man of conscience He is learned and naturally merry in conversation He was Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Angelo à Sazanella in the Kingdom of Naples He is much devoted to the house of Austria and in particular to the Catholique King making open profession thereof and having his Majesties armes set over his gate and is loved and esteemed of that Crown as also of the great Duke He is not much reckoned of in the Court but is reverenced in the sacred Colledge He hath no enemies except it be the Barberini who fear him for the abuses they have done to the Duke of Cesis besides other disgusts received in his own person from them There hath some distast also past between him and the Cardinal Theodoli in a Chappel held by the Cardinals for the love of Lerida His Government would be good for the holy Church for some of his confidents have reported that if ever he should attain to that degree he would with all his interest make a league against the Turke and would also if God gave himlise lay up as many millions of Gold in the Castle as Sixtus quintus did for the benefit of the Apostolick Sea His kindred are the Orsini the Duke Acquasparta the Duke of Cesis the Soovelli and others XXXV Francesco Maria Machiavelli FFrancesco Maria Machiavelli a Noble man of Florence and Cousin to the Barberini He was a first but a simple Prelate then was made Bishop of Ferrara and afterwards promoted to the Scarlet Gowne for divers reasons but the most intimate of them was because he was a kinne to the Barberini by the mothers side another was for that the Cavalier Matthia Machiavelli who was Captain of the light-horse of his Holinesse guard and had done many services for the Pope in the past Warre against the Princes of Italy was an earnest suitor to him for it This Cardinal is very affable in his demeanor of a good disposition curteous and a friend to the poor but yet spends not much upon them of his own purse He is not disliked of by the great Duke of Toscan though he be the Barberinies Cousin because he hath never distasted that Prince but hath held good correspondence with him by all manner of services if not openly at leastwise secretly for otherwise he had lost the Popes favor He is neither Spanish nor French feigning himself neutral but in effect is wholly Austrian and in the past Conclave he alwaies sided with Albernoz against Francesco He was not displeased to see the Barberini persecuted by the Pope knowing their misdeanors deserved that and worse He is well regarded by his holinesse and is now resident at his Church of Ferara He is a man of an indifferent understanding hath no considerable enemies nor any contrarietie but such as he may have by reason of his affinitie with the Barberini he is of a goodly presence and young he maintaines himself in his Bishoprick with much decorum and gravitie carrying himself with the great satisfaction of the people there by whom he is loved reverenced and served XXXVI Verginio Orsini Verginio Orsini a Roman Nephew to the Duke of Bracciano and the brother of the Duke of Santo Gemini he was onely an Abbot and thought to have cast off his Clerical habit and have maried the Princess Lodovisia but Urban envying this match and whilst it was a making up promoted him in a Consistory to the Scarlet Gown Others say that the Duke of Bracciano finding his house without the red Hat courted the Cardinal Antonio a long time with donatives and exorbitant expences and in the end with a great summe of Gold drew him to get his Holiness to promote him howsoever the Scarlet Gown was due to him as a deserving Lord and of a most antient family which as one may say hath had as many Cardinals as daies and the Roman Church is exceedingly obliged to this house their ancestors having fought for it and kept the Barbarians far enough from Rome maintaining the Apostolical Sea in all securitie This House as also that of the Colonnesi alone have a place with the Ambassadors in the Chappel but in regard of precedencie they never meet there both together This Cardinal according to his authority is not very rich no more than his ancestors were who warred a long time with the Colonnesi in such sort as they put not only the neighbouring Princes in fear but also the very Popes themselves who were fain to observe them but they have now reduced them to that passe as the Orsini may with just reason say sastiditum in ques opprebrium gentibus abjectio plebis howsoever this Lord is bountiful as farre forth as his small abilitie will extend carrying along with him the liberalitie of his race He was much beloved and regarded of Innocent the tenth because at such time as the assuming of Cardinal Pamphilio to the Papacie was in agitation he being not entred into the Conclave by reason of some indisposition of his when there was need of his vote he presently entred and gave it for him the said Orsini too were great furtherers of the match between his holinesse Neece and the Prince

snatched it out of his hand saying you shall serve me no longer and turning him about to another Gentleman of his there present he gave it to him and said you shall serve me hereafter for the Master of my Chamber which Filomarini seeing and hearing remained as one dead to find himself so disgraced by his Lord saying in his mind Is this my Guerdon for so many yeares service which I have done to the Pope and his Nephews cursed be he which trusteth in the deceitful hopes of the World Now the monday morning came appointed for the sitting of the Consistory where preparation being made for things necessary thereunto Filomarini also began to go about as he used to doe at other times but Barberino with bitter words commanded him to get him from that place as he did retiring to his lodging very melancholick and exceedingly cast down The time of the Consistory being come which lasted six whole hours together his holinesse in the beginning propounded the Archbishoprick of Naples for Filomarim and afterward together with many others promoted him to the Scarlet Gown The Consistory being finished there was heard according to the usual custome crying out long live Cardinal such a one Filomarini who knew nothing of that which had past desirous to hear somewhat went out of his lodging and presently met with some Prelates and Cardinals which did all reverence unto him saying your Eminencies servant my Lord Cardinal Ascanio he thinking he was mocked answered each of them I had as lieve be flouted by you as another but at length Barberino himself was forced to goe to him and give him the Title of Eminencie Filomarini hearing what he and the rest had said unto him began to come to himself again and call to mind the Popes words when he told him that it was not a morsel for him and that he had destinated it to a Cardinal This Lord got the Hat with the sweat of four and twenty years service and in the last Conclave he met sufficiently with Barberino when as he told him that his obligation for the Scarlet Gown was due to the good memory of Urban and that he being dead his obligation was also extinct knowing well that he had alwaies opposed him in his attaining to the Hat and that therefore he was obliged to give his vote for the Catholick King his Lord. Urban tooke the greater affection to this Cardinal because when he was grievously sick in his last infirmity he had demanded of his Physitian in what state of health his holinesse was and being put in good hope thereof by him he gave him a chain of Gold which the Physitian shewed to the Pope who thereby perceiving the love he bore to him promoted him afterwards to the Scarlet Gown In the time of the Warre of the Barberini he sent twelve thousand Piastre to the relief of the Papal Army for which he got no litle credit with the Pope and sacred Colledge He is a very intelligent man and given to Astrologie but is exceeding proud so that in regard thereof there is no Cavalier how mean soever that Courts and visits him And I well remember that the Countesse of Saponara at such time as he was Master of the Chamber to Barberino sent him certain letters superscribed with the Title of my Lord and because they had not the Title of most illustrious he returned them back saying that they were not sent unto him and as much he did when as he was illustrious saying that they were not directed to him in summe no man knowes how to negotiate with him and therefore every one abstaines from writing unto him XXXIX Gieronimo Verospi GIeronimo Verospi a Roman Gentleman He was Auditor della Rota as in like manner his Uncle had been who during the time of his being so faling at odds with the great Duke of Toscan madly undertook w th certain Musketiers to dispute the difference that was between them about some waters without regarding the danger of his life that hung over his head after which returning to Rome he was by Urban thought worthy of the Scarlet Gown and having obtained it he lived but a while for some disgusts that were given him broke his heart and so he dyed Urban after the death of that Cardinal seeing his house as it were ruined undone and bearing a great affection to it promoted the present Geronimo Verospi his Nephew to the Hat he conferred also upon him the Church of Osimo nella Marca and further confirmed the Auditors place della Rota on his brother besides many other benefits and graces Francesco and Antonio both made great suite to have the Scarlet Gown as well for Verospi as for Gabrieli because they were but small friends to Pamphilio and as such they shewed themselves obstinate against his election and therefore after his assumption the said Verospi hath alwaies absented himself from the Court to avoid those disgusts which might happen unto him residing continually at his Bishoprick He is a poor Cardinal and hath many brothers who all live together with their Mother except it be one which hath ever kept himself apart from the rest and after the death of Urban he went to serve Cardinal Antonio in the place of Master of his Chamber before he left the Court of Rome to go into France This Cardinal is learned but the Auditor della Rota his brother is more intelligent his vote will be altogether for the Barberini and his inclination is more to France then to Spain although to maintain himself in the common pretensions he seemes in apparance to be neutral If this same Lord should be Pope he would spoil the seat of Peter to accommodate his bretheren which are many XL. Gaspare Matthei GAspare Matthei brother to the Duke of that surname He was a Prelate of a most Noble and antient Roman family and was sent by Vrban the eighth Nuneio to the Emperors Majestie in which Charge he carried himself with much satisfaction of both parts He was promoted to the Scarlet Gown as other Nuncioes were Upon his return to Rome he was presently set upon by Sachetti for the repayment of six thousand crownes lent him at his going into Germany causing him to be cited for it in regard whereof he is no great friend to him but greatly opposed his fortune in the Conclave and behaved himself with much vigilancie care affection towards the House of Austria in favor of the Cardinal Phamphilio And he it was also that made a great coil saying they would have no forreign but Roman Popes and in the same Conclave he defended the reputation of the house of Austria threatning the Cardinal Rapacioli who had spoken amisse against the Austrians he shewed himself also averse to the Cardinal Fiorenzola for the same cause This Cardinal is poor intelligent opinnative haughty proud full of resentment and lookes more like a souldier then a Cardinal He speakes freely against any one whatsoever he be

when he sees things ill done His vote is and ever will be Austrian and for that Crown would he shed his owne blood He is well esteemed of by the Pope and feared of the Court as a vindicative person He hath allied himself with the house of Gonzaga having given his Sister in mariage to the Prince of Pozzolo who was heretofore Ambassador in this Court from the Emperor XLI Girolamo Grimaldi GIrolamo Grimaldi a Nobleman of Genoua and kinsman to the Prince of Montehonorato This Girolamo was a soldier having served the Emperor in the Warres of Germany returning into his Country he put on the long robe and comming to Rome he bought the Clerk of the Chambers place was by Urban the eighth made Governor of Rome in which Charge he carried himself with much satisfaction of the people at the end whereof he was sent Nuntio into France and having remained some monthes in that imployment he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown for two respects the one was to make the Clerke of the Chambers place void for the selling of it and the other to shew the promoting of a French Nuntio Some say that this Lord was he which caused the Prince of Monaco to fall from the Spaniards but others more certainly say that it was a French Cavalier named Mounsieur Bordon of the self same House of Grimaldi for there are in France many of that Family so that it cannot be denyed but that the Cardinal had an hand in it And the cause of this defection was for that the Kings Ministers would not pay the Garrison which was kept in the fortress of Monaco in regard whereof the poor Prince having no possibility to pay them by reason he was not satisfied those few assignments which had been setled for it was forced to expel the Spaniards and introduce the French as most profitable for him restoring to the Catholique King his Golden Fleece again This Cardinal is well accommodated with the goods of fortune and yet he cannot be said to be rich if one consider the bountifullnesse of his mind which is such as his meanes though sufficient enough is not able to answer In his negotiating and dealings he is very affable and courteous honoring all without exception of any He lives under the protection of the Crown of France as all his kinred besides doth He is intelligent enough and studious but much more curious The most Christian King honored him for some monthes with his comprotection of France in default of Antonioes absence from the Court it having been exercised before by Cardinal Brichi and now it is exercised by the Cardinal of Este with the Title of Legitimate Protector for which he hath received a Brieve from his Majestie Grimaldi got but little favor with the Pope in the time that he exercised the said comprotection having too openly spoken overmuch in the behalfe of the Barberini in regard whereof his Holinesse before the Cardinal of Estes arrival at Rome oftentimes denyed him audience He is very open in the expression of his sence especially when he comes to have any businesse imposed upon him He is of some account in the Court because he is of a principal Family and a Nobleman of the City of Genoua He is not a little glad at any losse or misadventure hapning to the Austrian Monarchy and in particular to that of Spain He is an amiable Lord merry and jovial is well pleased with the delights of the World and especially with faire Women He is much esteemed of by the Crown of France XLII Cesare Fachinetti CEsare Fachinetti Nephew to Innocent the ninth and a Nobleman of Bologna he was a deserving Prelate and sent Nuncio to the Catholique King at the end of which imployment he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown by Urban the eighth and afterwards had conferred on him the Bishoprick of Sinigaglia a City of the State of Urbin In his Church he was observed to be a good and vigilant man behaving himself gently and charitably towards his flock None of the Cardinals in the sacred Colledge are enemies to him because he is loving to them all He is not very old but comming to some riper age he may attain to Peters Chair the rather for that he is devoted to the house of Austria he hath no vices of consideration holds good correspondence with the Popes Family The Spaniards would condiscend to his election so that it might be propounded by some head of a faction for if they should do it themselves he might be easily excluded He would be no bad Pope for the good of the Church Innocent the tenth hath conferred on his brother the Charge of Governor of the Armes in Romagna who in case of his being Pope would be he that will reign and hath no considerable defect saving that he is somewhat amorous being now in love with one Nina Barcarola a famous Roman Dame otherwaies they are both good Cavaliers The vote of this Cardinal will be alwaies for Spain XLIII Francesco Rapaccioli FRancesco Rapaccioli a Roman descended from a Castle called Castel di Scepoli scituated betwixt the City of Narni and Trani and was the Sonne of a Lilettaro for so they call those in Rome which sell Shirts Smocks Handkerchers and other kind of linnen in the City Being a Prelate he was Clerk of the Chamber and by Urban was against the will of the whole Colledge made Treasuror General of the holy Church having been first honored with the charge of Commissary General of the Papal Army in Perugia After sometime he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown to make mony of the Clerks place for the use of the Warre and a lesse while did he enjoy and exercise the Treasurorship being daily and continually imployed in the said Warre He is a rich Cardinal according to his qualitie and is most intelligent in the Civil and Cannon Lawes He is of the Barberinies faction and consequently French wherefore in the Conclave he spake amisse of the house of Austria for which Matthei answered him as he deserved and with threats told him that he were best take heede in what manner he spake of the house of Austria for else he might be made to repent it although he were a Cardinal He is but litle esteemed of in the Court and in the sacred Colledge he is reputed as a meer Scarlet Gown and no otherwise Innocent the tenth hath conferred on him the Church of Terni his Country XLIIII Giovannni Giacomo Panzirolo GIovanni Giacomo Panzirolo a Roman the Sonne of Virgilio della valle so sirnamed sometime a publique Taylor in Rome Giovanni Giacomo having profited well in vertue and proceeded Doctor in the Lawes applied himself to the Court where he was entertained by the now Pope for his Auditor at such time as he was a Prelate and Nuntio at Naples He also followed the said Pamphilio into Spain upon his going likewise Nuntio thither After Pamphilio was promoted to the Scarlet Gown Panzirolo put