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A92196	An itinerary contayning a voyage, made through Italy, in the yeare 1646, and 1647. Illustrated with divers figures of antiquities. Never before published. / By Jo: Raymond, Gent.	Raymond, John, Gent.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1648 (1648)	Wing R415; Thomason E1128_1; ESTC R33233	71,514	330

of money In returning wee stept into the Arsenall The Magazine and store-house of Warre Mars his warehouse In this place the Republick hath all ammunition for Sea and Land all instruments of offence and Defence all preparations for shipping so ready that t is said they can raise a Gally in foure and twenty houres and though the late approach of their common enemy the Turke hath much impoverisht this Arsenal yet the daily labours of Artisans that worke there still restore it The next day wee went to the Greek Church where at their service in their owne tongue there was a great Congregation who us'd more Ceremonies but lesse superstition then the Church of Rome which calls the Greeks Schismaticks onely because they differ not much in exteriours from them but will not acknowledge the Pope to bee head of the Church Neither have the Orientall Christians alone this Liberty at Venice but Loyalas Sonnes being exild thence the Inquisition reacheth not so far as strangers which made us Hereticks as they call us thinke wee were come out of the Land of Bondage to a more secure Country The day following wee made a Gondola carry us over to San Georgeo an Island with a most beautifull Monastery The Chappell is pav'd as generally they are in Venice with a reddish Marble About the Coire are very rare Statues and in the Cloister sits Venice Triumphant From thence wee went to San Giovanni e Paulo more in devotion to the living Ladies then to the dead Image there worshipt This Place is much frequented by the Venetian walking May Poles I meane the women which gives mee occasion to speake of the common habits or fashions of Venice The Citizens rich and poore follow all the same Mode viz A long black gowne with wide sleeves and a kinde of skirt to throw over one shoulder the collar alwayes open and a Black Cap edg'd with Fringe of Wooll The Ladies have found out a devise very different from all other Europaeian Dresses They weare their owne or a counterfeit Haire below the shoulders trim'd with gemmes and Flowers their Coats halfe too long for their bodies being mounted on their Chippeens which are as high as a mans leg they walke between two handmaids majestickly deliberating of every step they take This fashion was invented and appropriated to the noble Venetians wives to bee constant to distinguish them from the Courtesans who goe coverd in a vaile of white Taffety These fashions because they are not so variable as ours I have here inserted Before the Church I last mentioned San Giovannie Paulo is a Cavalier or horseman in Brasse with these words Bartholomeo Coleono Bergomensi ob militare Imperium optime gestum S C. Joanni Mauro Marino Venereo Curatoribus An Sal Mcccclxxxxv. This is the chiefe of what I observ'd in three weeks residence at Venice As concerning the trade or traffique of this City shee is without Doubt Mistris of all others it is shee that makes rise or fall the Exchange at her pleasure And this I imagine proceeds from the great and innumerable company of Jewes that are harbourd here and that enjoy the Priviledge of a Synagogue for every Nation so that in their Guetta they have nine diverse ones yet weare they a Badge of distinction viz a Scarlet hat The shops at Venice are most richly furnisht with Easterne Merchandize as Sattins Damasks Cloaths of Gold with a world of costly Drugs which word intimates I must hasten to the Medicinall Padua From Venice to Padua because of the convenient passage by water is one easie dayes journey About five miles from Venice wee came to Liza Fusina where the continent or firme Land beginnes here one finds commodity of going either by Land or Boate wee tooke the latter a most delightfull Spasso on the river Brenta which runnes in so direct a line that one may see its course foure miles behind or before one on both sides is a garden-like countrey and a multitude of Villa's or Countrey houses with Gardens of Orange trees and other greens after the Italian way At the close of the evening wee arriv'd at Padua Patavium was founded long before Romulus suckt the Wolfe T is reported that Antenor flying with some force into these parts after the destruction of Troy began this name and city to confirme this they yet shew this Noble Heros Tombe with this Epitaph in old Characters Inclitus Antenor Pat: c. The words are these C Inclytus Antenor Patriam Vox Nisa Quietem Transtulit huc Henetum Dardanidumque Fugas Expulit Euganeos Patavinam condidit Vrbem Quem tegit hic humili marcaesa Domus The Monument whereon these verses are ingraven stands by S. Lorenzos Church in this figure As in the page following Antenors Tombe {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Not farre from this Marble Chest are some remnants of the walls that Antenor laid For the city is divided into the old and the new the old hath round about it the river both are encompast with strong Bull-warkes upon which are planted rowes of trees very pleasant to walke amongst though they quite hinder the view of the city a farre off Neither indeed I must confesse doth Padua abound with stately houses like the other chiefe Cities of Italy yet those renowned disciples of Aesculapius that are nourisht there make it to be said both at home and abroad Padua the Learned It stands in a most delicious and fertile Plaine which produceth so great abundance of things necessary to humane life that the vulgar Proverb goes Bolonia la grassa ma Padoua la passa By reason of this plenty of provisions and the daily practise in Physick and the other liberall Arts this city is no lesse frequented by strangers then Athens anciently was And indeed those who have been students at Padua have reason to commend the place for by the Senate of Venice's constitution under whom Padua is every Nation English Dutch c. hath a Consul enjoyes many Priviledges and by their matriculation may lay in provisions without paying any excise or taxation This liberty is very prevalent to draw Forreigners thither yet the ill Government of the Schollars there much disswades others from likeing the place It is strange to finde Minerva so joynd with Mars to see students in so warlike a posture for the common mode of the Schollars is to goe arm'd with a paire of Pistolls and a Stilletto by his side this they say proceeds from some old and inbred dissentions between the Vicentines and Brescians which two parties so fill the towne with slaughter that no man can walke the streets late at night for fear of their Chi-va li and which is a more manifest signe of their Barbarismes on the Pillars of the Porch or Arches that runne before the houses of this city one may discerne where Bullet have past nay so triviall is homicide amongst them that if at any time they want a body for the