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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45954	The intrigues of the Court of Rome for these seven or eight years past written originally by a French gentleman who lived with a publick character several years at that court ; now rendered into English.	J. M. D.	1679 (1679)	Wing I278; ESTC R27441	78,507	199

conversation with Man she was shewed Don Frederick Sforza Nephew to the Cardinal and Son to Don Paolo Sforza whose House is more remarkable by the Antiquity of its Nobility than the greatness of estate This young Man was very handsome and it was an easie matter for him to make a Conquest of a heart which was in the hands of those who had introduced him to her This Intrigue was not managed with so much secresie but that the Constable had quickly notice of it he complained to Duke Cesarini that they discoursed in the Palace of marrying his Neece that he knew very well that such a thing went against the promise made upon the marriage contracted between his younger Neece and the Duke of Sonino his Brother which was not concluded but upon condition of the renunciation of the Elder What injury would it be both to the Honor and Estate of his House that the Duke of Sonino had three Sons that would be miserable if such a marriage took effect that it behoved him to apply himself in good earnest toward that blow that it was in the power of an Uncle who was in place of a Father to hinder his Necce from marrying that as to himself he would rather perish with all his Family than suffer that wrong and prejudice Duke Cesarini promised the Constable to do all he could to hinder it that he would never consent to it but that he must assist him on his part to gain the Lady that they needed not despair to make her quite a designe which she had only conceived at the solicitation of those of the Palace who sought not so much her good as the occasion of revenge even to the injuring of her conscience her repose and the settlement of her Family that moreover he ought to endeavour to make the Mother who would have great influence upon her mind because she lived with her The Constable and Duke Cesarini having leagued with the Mother who at first they won to their side used all possible endeavours to take off the young Lady from the thoughts of marriage But finding all their attempts unprofitable and that in vain they had successively used Remonstrances Prayers and Threatnings because she relyed upon the Supream Authority they betook themselves to other Artifices They thought that without further opposing her designe of Marriage it behoved them to propose to her another Match in appearance more advantageous than D. Frederick Sforza that they must needs find out one whom Cardinal Altieri should dislike to the end that if she consented to it against the Will of his Eminence the marriage might break off and so she remain without having either the one or other but that was not enough the party must likewise be such that if the Marriage should succeed contrary to their intention as it might very well do the house of Altieri might find a disadvantage thereby as well as that of the Constable that so they might be even with him All these conditions concurred in the person of D. Celio Vrsini Brother to the Duke of Bracciano and Cardinal Vrsini And the better to rip up the matter we must here digress to an alliance that Cardinal Altieri made with the Family of Vrsini so soon as he was adopted Nephew to the Pope The House of Vrsini that disputes the precedency with all the Families of Rome Noble by its original by its antiquity by its alliances and by its dignities and charges is divided into two branches whereof the chief is at Rome and the head of it called Duke of Bracciano the other is at Naples the head whereof takes the name of Duke of Gravina That of Rome consisted in the three persons whom we have named to wit the Duke of Bracciano the Cardinal Vrsini and D. Lelio and was almost extinct the Duke of Bracciano being aged and without children the second a Priest and the third of such a Devotion as did degenerate into a kind of weakness and all three of a sickly constitution Cardinal Altieri whose care and industry of making his Family is hardly to be matched no more than his fortune perceiving that all the Estate of the Roman Vrsini was about to descend to those of the kingdom of Naples applied himself from the beginning of his Reign to draw them into an alliance with his Family he caused a marriage of a Neece of the Pope to be proposed to the Duke of Gravina with a vast sum of money in portion and a Cardinals Hat for a Brother of that Duke who was then a Jacobin Gravina needed no great entreatie to consent to that Match being allured to it by the advantage of holding the rank of one of the Popes Nephews at Rome and by the hope of enjoying the inheritance of the Roman Vrsini himself as being much younger than all of them were the marriage was concluded then to the satisfaction of all that were concerned in it and the married parties tasted the joys of a calm Serenity crowned with honors amidst far greater hopes But the Intrigue of the Constable and Duke of Cesarini who pitched upon D. Lelio Vrsini to be proposed in marriage to the elder Cesarini troubled the contentment of Gravina as well as of Cardinal Altieri and his Relations They saw that the expectation of the great Estates of the Vrsini was in danger to be disappointed by that marriage and although D. Lelio was already well stricken in years considering the age of the young Lady yet he was not out of hopes of having children they had a near instance of it in the house of the Mathei the Duke of Acqua Sparta at the age of Sixty nine years having had a Son by a very young Lady It was no difficult matter for the Constable and Duke Cesarini to gain the Lady to consent to that match and to leave the thoughts of D. Frederick Sforza by that alliance she found her self the sole Heiress of the Vrsini besides that it agreed better with the inclination of her Mother and Uncle It was likewise represented to her that one essential clause of the Testament of the Duke of Cesarini her Father was That in case his Daughters should marry those whom they chose for Husbands should be approved of by his most Christian Majesty that this condition was not to be found in the Family of the Sforza's seeing the Cardinal of that name Uncle to D. Frederick was of the Spanish Faction whereas the House of Vrsini had always been time out of mind addicted to the French party and that the Cardinal the Brother of D. Lelio was actually the Comprotector of the affairs of that Kingdom She condescended then to that proposition waving the consideration of the age of D. Lelio but that innocent Victime perceived not that both parties designed to sacrifice her to Interest and Revenge the cruellest of Deities which all the bloud in the world can neither content nor appease The two parties played their game with her and she

of Bassanello had a means in his hands whereby to revenge himself of Cardinal Altieri he knew that his eminence had courted the alliance of his house by reason of the great estate that must one day fall to his Brothers children he himself being out of hopes of having any he thought he could not more sensibly touch Altieri after the Marriage of the Duke of Anticoli than to deprive him of his expectation as much as the Law would permit And although that could not be done without a troublesome blow to his own Family by disinheriting his onely Brother the Duke of Anticoli yet the pleasure he took in revenge was so sweet that it stifled all the considerations of his own blood He had a good Estate that he could alienate and especially the best part of the inheritance of the late Prince of Gallicano who left it him at his death and was worth about Two thousand five hundred pounds Sterling a year Nevertheless he would not have that Estate go out of the Family and Name of Colonna's he was not so blinded by passion as to do so He cast therefore his eyes upon the Duke of Sonnino the younger Brother of the Constable and of his Lady to whom he bequeathed all the Estate that he could dispose of and which was not entailed on the House of Carbognano This Donation made in prejudice of the Duke of Anticoli and by consequent of the alliance of Altieri came quickly to the knowledge of the Cardinal Regnant and there was no secrecy affected in a matter that was purposely done to choak him which indeed gave him a mortal blow and wounded him in the two most sensible parts of a Man Honour and Interest Cardinal Altieri is therefore offended and by the offence obliged to a resentment He hath the supreme power in his hands and must think of the means but against whom will he testifie his resentments He hath no pretext against the Duke of Bassanello who is a Lord that hath alwayes lived after the Roman fashion that is to say who hath alwayes made it his business to live and let live as they usually say and hath never been capable of troubling the State yea one may presume of his genius that if he hath fallen on such an extreme resolution some body must have suggested to him the thoughts Therefore Cardinal Altieri bends his designs against the House of the Constable and without any noise finds the means of giving him the exchange and of playing him as smart a trick as that which had been done to him And because that gives occasion to the great and long Intrigue of the Marriage of the Princess Cesarini which is at length concluded with D. Frederick Sforza that I may not say to that Comedy wherein all the Princes of Rome and even the Ministers of Crowned heads played some part with so many changes on the Scene it is necessary to trace the matter a little higher that with less confusion we may follow the Series of the Story Prince Cesarini that died last left a very considerable Estate to his Family and having no Male issue bequeathed the succession to his Brother Mr. Cesarini then Clerk of the Apostolick Chamber That Prelate made no difficulty of leaving all the uncertain hopes of rising to a Cardinalship that he might embrace an inheritance so considerable as well by the fair Mannors and Lordships as by the lovely Houses and Palaces and the Lands which amounted to more than Fifty thousand Roman Crouns of yearly revenue that make about Fourteen thousand pound English But that Lord by the Debauchery of his youth had so impaired his health that he could not hope to leave after him successors to the House of Cesarini This great Estate then was entail'd upon the Children of the Daughters of Duke Cesarini with this condition That they whom they Married should espouse the Party of France and adhere faithfully to the Interests of that Crown That clause of the Testament shewed sufficiently the temper of the Father whom I knew to be so zealous for his most Christian Majesty that he proposed to me a little before his death a design he had of exchanging his Mannours Lordships and Lands in Italy with a Lord whom I need not name and had appointed me to negotiate the affaire to the end that he might retire into France I owe this digression to the memory of a Prince who had no other fault but his too much zeal for the French Nation He disposed therefore of his Estate in favour of the children of his eldest daughter after the death of his Brother in case he died without Male issue he ordered likewise but a small Portion for the rest to take them off from the thoughts of Marriage that so his Estate might not be divided amongst many branches He had two at the age of Marrying both living in a Convent with their Mother and equally considerable by the advantages of birth and beauty but unlike as to Portion and Estate because the eldest was heiress presumptive General of the Mannors Lordships and Palaces of his Family The Duke of Sonino the Constables Brother who before was called the Abbot Colonna forsook the Ecclesiastick State that he might Marry the younger Sister but on condition that the elder would become Nun and renounce the pretensions and rights of her birth-right which was done with consent of the Unckle This elder Sister either through the perswasions of her Unckle or because she was nor at that time in an humour of Marrying had consented to all that was agreed upon between the Duke Cesarini her Unckle and the Prince of Sonino her Brother-in-Law but no Articles were drawn upon that agreement all depended upon the faithfulness of a promise Cardinal Altieri to play a trick to the House of Colonna like to that which the House of Colonna had played him by the Donation of the Duke of Bassanello to the Duke of Sonino took his measures so well that he deprived the Duke of Sonino of the pretended inheritance of the house of Cesarini by putting the eldest Cesarini in the Head to Marry notwithstanding her engagement in favours of her younger Sister For that effect he set many at work to manage the young Lady and gain upon her Mind It was no hard matter for Churchmen to break a young Maid off the thoughts of a Cloyster and for Spiritual Superiours to make her change her design as well by the dependence on their Counsels as to the kind of life which she led as by the tenderness of an age susceptible of all the impressions that were made upon it When her mind was wrought upon in the Convent where she had chosen her retreat Cardinal Altieri made known to her that his Holiness would take her into his Protection and that he desired to Marry her with all the advantage due unto her birth and merit But because she had not declared her self in favour of any having had no