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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

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

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

pretext of rebellion a little before the rising of that people for that there were many saddles armes and much ammunition found in his Castles which he possessed in the Province of Abruzzo and whilst all things seemed to be composed and that he was ready to be absolved and set at libertie a new conspiracie of divers Princes and Barons of the Kingdom of Naples against the Catholique King was discovered amongst whom the Prince of Gallicano was included for a certain Neapoletan Apostate Theatin named Andrea Paolucci being intercepted and apprehended with letters about him to several Neapolitan Lords from France and put to the torture named many and in particular the said Prince of Gallicano The Constable also brother to the Cardinal was not long since at such time as Gallicano was a prisoner summoned by the Vice-Roy to come to Naples and he put himself in the way to have gone thither but in the midst of his journey he returned and in his stead sent a gentleman of his family to feign that he was so indisposed in his health as he could not come himself for had he gone in person I am perswaded he likewise would have fallen into the same labyrinth This House hath ever been devoted to that of Austria and the present Cardinal will alwaies be of the Spanish faction if disgusts do not arise from new discoveries He is a haughty Lord and very sensible insomuch as he was for a good while distasted with the old Cardinal de Medici about precedence but the differences between them were composed by Innocent the tenth immediately upon his creation XXII Cirriaco Rocci CIrriaco Rocci a Roman his Original descent was from the City of Cremona in the state of Milan He was a Prelate sent Nuntio by Urban the eighth to the Emperors Majestie after which he promoted him to the Scarlet Gown This Cardinal in not very intelligent but seeemes to know much he is an old man pretends greatly to the Papacie and is not ashamed to speak of it to every one promising in that case Dignities Graces and Favors In the last Conclave he indeavoured much for his exaltation thereunto reposing all his hopes in the hands of Cardinal Spada his kinsman but for all that he would not propound him knowing full well that for his respect he would have been excluded and so he should have had his fortune discomposed for the future as the Barberini did in the person of Sachetti and the reason of it is that if Rocci were Pope the said Cardinal Spada would command all who is not much desired of any and in particular abhorred of the Barberini because they know him to be of a too stirring and fantastical a humor He hath one Nephew that is the Abbot Rocci who would be he that should reign but in regard of his young years he would not be fit for the Government He is a very affable Lord of a good life and most devoted to the House of Austria making open profession thereof wherefore he will alwaies be Spanish though he be the Barberinies creature He is well regarded of the present Pope Innocent the tenth XXIV Giovanni Battista Palotta GIovanni Battista Palotta is of an honest family of the little Country of Calderola nella Marca He is Nephew to the late Cardinal Palotta unto whom he is no way inferior and is well accommodated with the goods of fortune for the Cardinal his Uncle left him a great estate Having put himself into the Prelacie he was by Urban the eighth exercised in divers Charges and in particular was made Lord Governor of Rome wherein he carried himself with much integrity and to the great satisfaction of the people being severe and so upright that in point of justice he made no reckoning of his Holiness Nephewes For whereas it was the custome a little before the Carnival time to make proclamation that no woman whatsoever should during the said Carnival goe thorough the Course masked on pain of being whipped or suffring some such other punishment as to the Governor should seem meet the famous Checa Buffona was seen going in that time thorough the Course masked and albeit she was oftentimes admonished to forbear doing so yet would she not desist Whereat Palotta being displeased caused her suddainly to be imprisoned and then having ordained that she should be publiquely whipped thorough the City to avoid the intercessions that might be made to him in her behalf he shut himself up in his Cabinet and gave order to his servants not to come at him or disturb him during the space of two houres for any cause or message whatsoever but that they should in the mean time entertain those that came to speak with him whereupon arrived a Gentleman from Cardinal Antonio who kept a great coil to speak with the said Palotta the Governor but he was put of with good words untill the prefixed time was past and then he was admitted to the presence of the Governor unto whom he brought an order from Cardinal Antonio for the speedy setting at liberty of the said Checa Buffona Palotta answered that his Eminencie should be obeyed and presently made a Warrant for the releasing of her out of prison but when it came thither Checa had already been whipped thorough the City which Antonio understanding took on like a mad man and mightily threatned to be revenged Palotta foreseeing the danger he was likely to incur acquainted the Pope with the business who commended him for that he had done but his Holinesse knowing well that Antonio was wreakful and vindicative to take away the inconvenience that might arise upon that occasion deprived Palotta of his Government and sent him Collector into the Kingdome of Portugal where having remained some months he took upon him to maintain certain Eccesiastical jurisdictions and excommunicated all the Royal Councell of the City of Lisbon for which he was forced to leape out of a window to save himself by flight towards Rome and there being arrived he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown for divers respects The first was for the merit of his labors his Holiness knowing him to be a man of great abilities and knowledge and the second for to shield him from the malice of Antonio who for all that together with his brother Francesco hath given him hundreds of disgusts continually contrarying him in the cause and suite depending between the General of the Augustinian Order and the said Palotta who desired to have chastised him for divers misdemeanors committed by him in his place and Antonio to crosse Palotta protected and defended him and in the end to despight him got him by an Apostolical brieve to be confirmed in the Generalship for seaven years more besides many other abuses no way deserved by the said Cardinal who is a person capable of the Papacie and Rome would be happy if he should come to be Pope that so it might see the pride of the Barberini brought down If he lives

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