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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

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 Vertues 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. LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Armes in St Pauls Church-yard 1653. A CARDINAL in his HABIT as hee sitts in the CONSISTORY J. Cross Sculpsit To the Right Honorable and every way Noble Lord John EARLE OF RVTLAND Lord Rosse of Hamlake Trusbut and Belvoire My LORD THis small Treatise which I have presumed to recommend unto the world under your Honours Patronage besides the noveltie of the subject so little or not at all touched upon in any Booke at leastwise that I have seen speaking our Tongue cannot be but well received as I conceive by all such as any way pretend to the knowledge of forraigne affaires both for that it treates of so principall and active a body and society of men as that of the Colledge of Cadinalls Princes Fellowes as they are reputed and the greate Councell and Consistory of that mysterious Head the Pope of Rome as also because it discovers many particularities of the practique as wel in the elections of the said Cardinalls as likewise of their severall interests and hopes they may conceive to themselves of arriving one day at Peters Chaire and also what kind of Pope each of them is like to prove in case he should attaine to that honour Moreover I make no question but that it will be a very pleasing thing to most men to have such a lively character by them as my Author bere gives of every one of those Arch-politicians and Councellors who have such an influence into all the debates and results of that pragmatique Superintendent Court and Consistory which Lords and Lawes it or would willingly doe so over the whole world Of no lesse satisfaction too suppose I it will bee to see so clearely chalked out all the severall applications of all the Popish Princes and States especially of the two great Kings of France and Spaine by their Ministers ever Ledger about this Court to the most politique and powerfull of these Cardinals out-vying each other in the offer of pensions or indeavoring by the gift of spirituall dignities and preferments unto them to insure and ingage them as much as possible they may to the espousing the interests of that Crown for which they serve and yet what poore hold notwithstanding either of these Princes hath of them and how apt they are upon very slight motives to range themselves on the quite contrary faction is a matter not unworthy of observation These and severall other Remarques touching the now Cardinalls the Pope at this day regnant and his particular family are presented in this little Tract which I would willingly make my selfe beleeve will bee as delightfull to the judicious as it was pleasing to mee in the translating thereof As for common and perfunctory Readers I shall say as Antimachus Clarius said when in the very interim as he was reciting a peece which hee had made all but Plato left him unus mihi Plato instar multorum for so as your Honour be pleased to approve of and favorablely receive it the paines I have taken therein are abundantly satisfied what reception soever it may finde of others as having attained the maine end I proposed to my selfe in the publishing of it which was that it might be as acceptable to your Lordship as it is heartily desired it should bee by him who in all himble affection is My Lord Your Honours most devoted Servant Henry Cogan THE JUST WEIGHT OF THE Scarlet Gowns I. Giovanni Carlo de Medici THE Prince Giovanni Carlo de Medici is Brother to the great Duke of Toscan and Nephew to the Cardinal Carlo de Med ci at this day called the Cardinal of Toscan He was promoted by Innocent the tenth in the first Promotion together with his Holyness Nephew at the instance of the great Duke and the Cardinal aforesaid He is a Prince of no mean Understanding and an expert Souldier but more at Sea than on Land because he was for some time imployed in the charge of Generalissimo at Sea commanding the Catholique Fleets for which cause he alwaies hath been and will be most devoted to the House of Austria besides the open profession all his House makes thereof which live under the protection of that Crown He is a jovial Lord and loves Women a little too much He is by nature Covetous nothing Bountifull but rather Niggardly All the House of Medici is no great friend of the Family of the Barbarini for divers publique and private causes and in particular for the War made with those Princes to all the world known II. Domenico Cecchini DOmenico Cecchini a Roman Gentleman about fifty three years of age He hath been long a Prelate and alwayes held good correspondence with the Cardinal Pamphilio who coming to be Pope promoted him joyntly though he did not name him in the first Promotion but he was the first named in the second Before he was Cardinal his Holyness conferred upon him the charge of Datarie Apostolical an Office verily of great profit which he exercises still now that he is Cardinal He is a Learned man and well verst in the matters of the Court It is said that this Cardinal was promoted by his Holyness to gratifie him for some services he had done him in divers occurrences and particularly in the sute depending between the Marquess Giustiniano and his Father for that he had twice pronounced Sentence in favour of the Marquess Nephew to his Holyness besides several other causes for which he merited the Popes grace This personage is old but not enough for the Papacy He is a man Affable Prudent and repleat with Virtuous qualities In the time of his Prelateship he was alwaies accounted Just no notable defect being known in him When he was young he took some recreation but without scandal howbeit now that he is Cardinal he shews himself more lascivious although he thinks his secrets intelligences are not penetrated into whilst he is very much pleased with women He pretends enough unto the Papacy is well looked upon in the Court being loved and reverenced of all and maintains himself neutral III. Nicolò Albergati NIcolò Albergati of the Bolognese Nobility forty years of age He was Archbishop of Bologna which dignity was resigned unto him in the beginning of the Papacy of Innocent the tenth by the Cardinal Colonna being so charged with Pensions that of the great Revenues of that Church the poor Lord could hardly receive two thousand Crowns a year The Prince Lodovisio who took to Wife the Popes Niepce was desirous to have a Cardinal in his House for the new raising up the

by Uban the eighth as a man of Authority and worth to compose the differences depending between him and the Duke of Parma who was come with a great Army to the confines of the Ecclesiastical State and had seazed on divers Lands and Castles of the Apostolick Sea and in particular Aquapendente where the said Duke had intrenched himself In front of whom stood Antonio with an Army of twelve thousand foot and four thousand horse to keep him from over-running the Ecclesiastical State and Spada was sent with the title of Plenipotentiary to conclude an agreement He went acted and returned but was by Urban very ill rewarded for after he had concluded and signed the Capitulations of the accord wherein the great Duke of Toscan the Republique of Venice and the Duke of Modena intervened as mediators Urban seeing the Duke departed and gone to his States of Parma and Placentia declared the said Capitulations null and invalid saying that Spada motu proprio and without his consent had signed them Herewith the aforesaid Princes held themselves justly offended and seeing the Pope leavy soldiers to send against the Duke of Parma each of those Princes took up arms to defend him But Cardinal Spada beholding his reputation blemished in this sort without any fear at all published a Manifest of his Reasons saying that all that he had done and capitulated was with his Holiness goodwill and approbation When the world plainly saw that the poor Cardinal had no way faulted but had exactly observed the commandments of the Pope he was by all men pittied but the Warre which ensued thereupon with the spilling of so much blood was that which cleared the business and brought the Cardinal into greater credit then before for in process of time the Pope was fain with the damage of the holy Church and his own reputation to make a peace with giving full satisfaction to the pretendants which had made Warre in divers places and in particular the great Duke of Toscan on Perugia side and the Duke of Parma the Republique of Venice and the Duke of Modena in the Bolognese This Cardinal is no great friend to the House of the Barberini for the causes afore-mentioned Spada is obstinately devoted o the Crown of France quite contrary to the Cardinal Rocci his Kinsman who is altogether for the Spaniard In the past Conclave he laboured much for the election of Innocent the tenth and therfore is well regarded of him This Cardinal is a great person hath a wise head and is full of high thoughts He is a Poet an Historian and a Polititian so that he will leave all the pastime of the world for to study He was one that inherited the greatest part of the state of Andrea Casale the Bolognose and was also the principal instrument of his ignominious death in the Galleyes but God as a just Judge will not leave such a wickedness unpunished Now because there are many that have not been made acquainted with this doubtful History may be desirous to know it I will not omit the relation of it as succinctly as I can Andrea Casale the Son of a rich and Noble Senator of Bologna his Father being dead remained a child under the Government of his Mother together with two Sisters which were made Nunnes This Andrea being come to mans Estate and full of generosity and spirit thought it too base a thing for him to live drown'd in idleness and delights wherefore he resolved though against his Mothers will to go into Hungary and there for the acquiring of fame to serve the Emperor in his Warres against the Turk as accordingly he did And being arrived in Hungary had the Charge of a Captain of a Troop of Horse conferred on him Now it happened certain months after that the Turkes gave the Emperors forces a great defeat wherein many Lords were slain and many were made prisoners and in particular the said Signor Andrea Casale The report of this defeat being spread over all Italy they that pretended to the inheritance of Andrea's estate were very desirous to know whither he we alive or dead whereupon divers Bolognese soldiers being returned to Bologna whether it were that they were suborned with money as for some other end they gave out that the said Andrea Casale was dead and further they made Affidavit that they had seen him dead and also had buried him with their own hands In the mean time the poor Cavalier remained in the hands of the Turkes and continually wrote letters unto his Mother to send mony for the ransoming of him which letters for the most part fell into the hands of those that pretended to the inheriting of his estate and were still by them secretly burnt Nevertheless it could not chuse but that some of them should come unto his Mother who with great joy imparted them to their kinred by whom she was condemned for a foolish and imprudent old woman telling her that her Son Andrea was dead and that those letters were forged by some one that meant to cheat her so the good Lady being put of in this manner at length dyed with grief and after many years it was the will of God that the poor Signior was redeemed by the holy Company of the Trinity with many other men and women who were as it were in tryumph all clad in white conducted after a Procession manner to Rome where being arrived the poor Cavalier knew not which way to turn himself but God which never abandons any made him call to mind how one Giovanni Antonio who had formerly received many curtesies from him at Bologna was at that instant Captain of the watch in Rome wherefore he went unto him and having acquainted him with his fortunes the Captain moved with pity to see a person of that quality reduced to such termes and very well knowing him to be the true Andrea Casale assigned him a Caroach with two Lackies and forty Crowns a month which after he had continued unto him for the space of seaven or eight weeks he brought him to the presence of the Pope who received him very graciously and shewed to be glad of his recovered liberty little thinking then that he himself should be he that afterwards should not onely deprive him of liberty but of his life also Andrea having informed his Holiness how all his estate had been seized upon and was wrongfully possessed by others humbly besought him to doe him that grace and justice as to restore him to his own againe which the Pope had a good intention to grant whereupon he commenced a suit against them that had gotten his estate who came running with all speede to the Court to oppose him and proved that Andrea Casale was dead and that this was a meere counterfit and an impostor wherefore Signior Andrea was constrained to become a prisoner and so to defend himself and prove that he was the true Andrea Casale His Holiness caused a process thereof to bee

things he he was ambitious of This Cardinal was even from his birth ever bountifull and hath with donatives and magnanimitie drawn many to his devotion insomuch that although he hath commited some errors and excesses yet is he not therefore so rigorously envyed whilst being possest of the goods of fortune he hath also made others partakers thereof and hath prodigally spent his own He hath not been a little taken with the beauties of women on whom he hath wasted great summes of Gold La Checa Buffona in temporibus was his Mistriss who out of the confidence that she had in the protection of the Cardinal Antonio went up and down masked in the Carneval time for which the Governor of Rome caused her without any respect at all to be whipped thorough the City He got with child the Daughter of the Marquess of Couré Ambassador of France To a Neapolitan Curtesan which dwelt in the Giulian street he gave for the first time a thousand crownes but not to say more this alone shall serve for a closing up of so many indignities this Cardinal hath committed that to a Pedant which had the charge of a very fair boy the Sonne of a Gentleman whom he let him enjoy several times he gave for a reward thereof a Bishoprick nella Marca di Marcantonio I will not speak of his bardache whom being but the Sonne of a barber he hath reduced to such a pass as not content with having inriched him he hath caused him to be adorned with the title of a Marquess The said Cardinal was sent Legate Apostolical and Generalissimo into the States of Bologna Ferrara and Romagna against the Princes of Italy where he caried himself valiantly and with the satisfaction not onely of all those people but also of the souldierie and if any one hath traduced his good name saying that he was privy to the death of the convert Nunnes of Magdalens in Bologna he lies for Antonio was not of Councel with that fact but indeed after the Delinquents were discovered in stead of chastising he favoured and protected them the one being Carlo Poscente and the other Manente his Secretary nay more he sent Carlo Poscente for his Vice-Duke into the state of Segni and also kept the Archbishop of Bologna from proceeding against them enjoyning him to speak no more thereof I cannot deny but Antonio committed an error in having so little regard to his reputation for as Legate Apostolical à Latere as General and as the Popes Nephew he might with all rigor have taken information of the matter and then arraigned and condemned them to the punishment which the heynousness of their offence requited and afterwards he might graciously have pardoned them for so he had shewed himself a just Judge and they too as if they had been sufficiently chastised had not incurred that which after the death of the Pope his Uncle arrived unto them being both of them first confined unto his Palace and after that sent prisoners to Bologna where they were put to death Antonio himself was necessitated to fly into France very much pittied by most men whereas every one wished all the mischief they could devise to Francesco and Tadeo This Cardinal is Chamberlain of the holy Church Archpriest della Basilica disanta Maria Maggiore hath many Abbacies and Protections and will alwaies be at the devotion of the French King by whom he is defended and protected in these his misfortunes but it is believed that he is now returned again into the Popes favor by the mediation of the Crown of France XXII Girolamo Colonna GIrolamo Colonna of the Title di Santo Eustachio and of a most antient and noble Roman family which hath had many Popes and a world of Cardinals He was promoted to the Scarlet Cown by Urban the eighth together with Cardinal Antonio at the instance of the Prince Prefect of Donna Anna Barberina and of the Constable in regard of the affinitie that was contracted between them This Cardinal is richly furnished with the goods of fortune and estates he is understanding prudent well esteemed of in the Court and reverenced in the sacred Colledge both for his blood and wisedom And his carriage doth not displease although he goes proudly and stately through the City like another Martin the fifth but withall he is courteous honours every one is exceeding liberal and well affected to the Pope who therefore loves him as also for that he was very partial in his election Urban the eighth made him Archbishop of Bologna which Archbishoprick after he had held it certain years he resigned in the time of Innocent the tenth unto my Lord Albergati a Bolognese Gentleman who is now a Cardinal by the name of Lodovisio Colonna Albeit the Colonesi and the Barberini have matched together yet have there no effects of friendship past betwixt them for divers private interests Neither are the Colonesi any great friends to the House of the Gaetani also a most antient and noble Roman family for that Don Gregorio Gaetano the brother of the Duke of Sermoneta and Uncle of the Prince of Caserta was in a manner treacherously killed by Don Carlo Colonna who for that fact was by Urban the eighth condemned to death and afterwards pardoned to the end no future Pope should take any further cognizance of that cause and to save his life that was in danger by reason of that enmity he made himself a fryer of the order of Saint Benedict and then was by Urban the eighth preferred to be Archbishop in partibus infidelium The said House of Colonna likewise doth not much love the House of the Cesarini although the occasion of Don Gregorio Gaetanoe's death proceeded from Don Carlo his defending the reputation of the Duke Cesarino his Nephew who being under age pretended that he had received an affront from the said Gregorio Gaetano in making him by force to stay in his way that his Caroach might have the precedence The House of the Constable Colonna holds little correspondence with the house of the Prince of Galliclano and of the Prince of Carbognano alias Duke of Bassanella all of the house of Colonna who though they be all sprung out of one stock yet doth each of them pretend to be better then the other for the preheminence the truth is that the house of the Prince of Carbognano is the right family derived from Sciano Colonna and therefore with reason is the Piatza where his Palace is scitunted called the Piatza of Sciana These Lords at first were all for the Catholique Crown but upon the matching of the Constable Colonnaes House with the Pope the Spaniards for their own interest honoured them with such Titles and States as the Duke of of Bassanello of a differing House was therewith to distasted that he set up the ames of the most Christian King and took to wife the base daughter of the Duke of Parma The Prince of Gallieano was made a prisoner at Naples upon

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

Lodovisio Nevertheless at this present the French having deprived the Prince Lodovisio of the Principalitie of Piombino the said Orsini indeavour all that ever they may to obtain it for that the Duke of Braccianoes Wife is of the Appian house from whom the Spaniards formerly took away the said Principalitie and sold it to the Prince Lodovisio for the sum of five hundred thousand Crownes being worth threescore thousand a year The Orsini were heretofore devoted to the house of Austria but now have declared themselves French insomuch that the Duke of Bracciano and the Cardinal have set up the Armes of the most Christian King from whom they have a Pension of two and twenty thousand Crownes a year besides the Duke of Bracciano continually expects the Brieve of the. Investiture of Piombino For which cause it is believed that the friendship and familiaritie which hath been between Innocent the tenth and them will turn into hatred and difference and all-ready there is a beginning thereof for his holiness hath caused the Duke of Bracciano to be cited to make payment of his debts to the Montisti his Creditors otherwise threatning to make sale of his goods to satisfie them This Cardinal is a man proud enough and for matter of precedence he by making stay of his Caroach affronted ill intreated the family of the Resident of the deceased Queen Mother Maria de Medici He is a Lord full of resentment and Vindicative and therefore is feared in the Court and reverenced in the Colledge XXXVII Giulio Gabrielli GIulio Gabrielli a Roman Nobleman he was Clerk of the Chamber and was promoted to the Scarlet Gown by Urban the eighth for the making of mony by sale of that Office and afterwards was sent as it were in exile unto a miserable Bishoprick charged with pensions in the City of Ascoli the greatest part of his meanes he acknowledgeth from the house of Lancelloti He hath received many disgusts from Barberino yet can he not for all that separate himself from him He seemes to be devoted to the house of Austria but is internally French He is an intelligent man studious curious and affable in his dealing He is a poor Cardinal and therefore give not much almes He is but young in regard whereof nothing is to be said of him concerning the Papacie He is well qualified leades a retired life hath no enemies in the sacred Colledge and in the Court carries a good port he hath some Nephewes which are of no ill condition He is a kinne to divers Noble Roman Families and in particular to the Altieri Lancelloti and Coccini This Cardinal hath in his Bishoprick been at some variance with the people thereof insomuch that they rose up tumultuously against him about some taxes imposed by him upon them XXXVIII Ascanio Filomarini AScanio Filomarini a Neapolitan Cavalier born in a little Village subject to Benevento called Chianchisella He was so poor that to repair the miserie he was in he resolved to goe and serve some Cardinal in the Court of Rome where being arrived he addressed himself to a Cardinal his Countriman and friend to the end that with his authoritie he might be preferred to the place of Master of the Chamber to some person that was capable of the Papacie but he to gull him rather then otherwise recommended him to Barberino that was not in a predicament of being Pope who entertained him for Master of his Chamber and it was his fortune to have the same inclination that his Lord had both of them delighted in Astrologie for which cause Maffeo carried the greater affection unto him In processe of time Gregory the fifteenth hapned to die and after long contestation in the Conclave amongst the Cardinals of several 〈◊〉 factions they elected the said Maffeo Barberino for Pope by the name of Urban the eighth who after he had promoted Francesco Barberino his Nephew to the Scarlet Gown appointed the said Fidomarini to be his superintendant with the Title of Master of his Chamber and authoritie to wear purple in regard Francesco was by reason of his youth too unapt and not fit for the Government Barberino some time being past not able longer to endure to see himself under the charge of the Master of his Chamber began to withdraw himself from it with the greatest arrogancie that might be and had indeed driven him out of his Court had it not been for the Pope his Uncle who protected him howsoever he would not make use of him in any thing but about the Chamber Filomarini having served the Popes house for the space of ten years resolved to trie his fortune to see if he could get the Scarlet Gown because it had been often promised to him by his holinesse but it little availed him wherefore when he saw that the Pope had made many promotions and that he was still excluded he began to fall from the hope which continually he had of it The truth is that Urban had an intent to promote him but he was by Francesco with a malicious policie kept from it for he would say to his holiness Father Filomarini is to me a right hand for the Government of my affairs and I shall not be able to meet with such another as he is wherefore you may be pleased to preferre him some other time and this he did alwaies at such time as the promotions were to be made more for the hate that he bore him then for any other end hoping that by meanes of this suspension his Uncle comming to die he should not see a servant of his exalted to the same Dignitie that he was in The Arch-bishoprick of Naples becomming void by the death of the Cardinal Buoncompagno Filomarini seeing that four and twenty years were already past and he had not been remunerated with any thing determined to craveit for a reward of his labors as indeed he did saying Blessed Father I have long served your Holinesse and your House and never had any occasion to demand any grace of you till now that the Church of Naples is void which I humbly beseech your Holinesse to bestow on me And this he spake even with tears in his eyes because he had lost all hope of the Scarlet Gown the Pope to make himself merry with him answered him thus This is not a morsell for you my Ascanio but for a Cardinal and wee have already so destinaled it Which Filomarini hearing made no reply but shrinking up his shoulders took his leave Not long after this Urban communicated unto Francesco the promotion of the Cardinals which he meant to make and in particular of Filomarini but Francesco having used all the perswasions he might to divert him from it and not prevailing resolved to give him all the disgusts in the mean time that possibly he could and for a beginning one day when Barberino was going forth into the City Filomarini brought his cloak as he was wont to put it on him but Francesco in a rage

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