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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00565	Historia de donne famose. Or The Romaine iubile which happened in the yeare 855. Disputed lately, that there vvas a woman pope named Ione the eight, against all the Iesuites, by a Germaine, but especially against Rob. Bellarmine father of all controuersies, his treatise De Romano pontifico. lib. 3. cap. 24. Newly translated into English	German.; T. B., fl. 1599.; Witekind, Hermann, d. 1603, attributed name.	1599 (1599)	STC 1070; ESTC S104453	30,341	46

vprightnes that what he had suspected to be false he would not haue sent it for a truth in open tables to all after times and prosperities Out of his Chronicle written in Italian and Printed at Florence in the yeere 1478. this I translated into Latine in the yeare of our Lord God 855. Iohn English helde the High Priesthood two yeares fiue months and foure daies The Church was vacant for one month He is not placed in the Catelogue of the Popes because he was a woman who in her nonage of a certaine louer of hers was brought to Athens in the habite of a man there in diuers studies and sciences she escaped their knowledge and did prooue excellent After when she came to Roome shee ascended such a height of fame that she was had in admiration with all men whence it happened by concord suffrage of the best the supreame honour of a Pope was attributed vnto her Which thing afterwardes betrayed it selfe to the world In her time in the Citty of Brixie three dayes and three nights it rayned meruailously blood and in Fraunce appeared monstrous Locusts hauing sixe winges and sixe feete and teeth very hard flying through the ayre admirably which after were all drowned and suffocate in the Sea of Britaine From whence the carcases of them were beaten to the shoare and did so corrupt the ayre that a great part of the inhabitants there dyed This Petrarch dyed in the yeare of our Sauiour Christ 1374. Iohn Bocace inwardest friend to Petrarch both for his wit and for his similitude of study and manners an other he doth rehearse this Ione and describe her first called Gilberta as he saith in his booke of noble women Chap. the 99. which in these words he concludeth To detestation of whose filthy whood and contynuance of memory of her name euen vnto this day the chiefe Priestes of the Rogation with the rest of the Clergie and people going to doe Sacrifice they abhorre that place of her child borne in the middest of her iourney and omitting it they decline thorough by waies and streetes and so that detestable place spurned at reentring home they end theyr iourney which they began There is also placed in a booke to be seene the picture and spectacle of the Child-birth of the Pontificall with circumstances of Cardinals and Bishoppes standing by like Midwi●es or Nurses That same booke of Bocaces making is turned into the Germaine tongue of a Phisition in the Citty of Vl●●es and Dedicated to the Dutchesse of Austria in the yeare 1473. Imprinted in the same Cittie with olde Caracters rude and with all the picture of her bringing foorth her childe To this doe agree certaine rimes consonant in Italian out of an olde hande written booke taken whose tytle is Historia de Do●ne Famose and of famous Women Historia de Donne Famose Gion●●ni setti●o infra queste astute La se●●a gloria del Pontificato Administro con cure alt● c. Eper in temperantia lei dif●s● No● f●c● asua lasi●ia c. Un gi●rno ac●●dde e fu vicina alparto Una solemnita est ●matae digna Onde con●i●● chel suo termin coart● S●e discoperto in procession ven●re D●●e a quel tempo il figlio in ●●rr● hasparto E con dolor f● vista partorire In presentia del p●p●l con tormento E l vne l'altro lor vita fi●ire Interpretation word for word The seauenth Iohn amongst these w●ly snares The summe and glory of the richest Seate A Ione for Iohn did minister with cares And wanting temper did her selfe defeate Withouten cesse by her lasciuiousnes It fell vpon the feast neere lying downe Solempnity high holy and of fame As ought her terme restraine her triple crowne Detect To Letany all as they came Layd instantly her birth vpon the earth With dolors doome how soone she was vnbent With peoples eyes how sore she was torment So he and she did dye forlorne in lent Anthony Archbishop of Florence in the second part of his history to the narration of Ione out of Martine the peni●entiary repeated he weueth this same Webbe saith there is a certaine signe of a marble Sculpture in the way where this happened placed there for a memoriall of the matter And to the matter hee proclaimeth as a thing so wicked so prophane yet not far from the Temple this saying of S. Paule O altitud●●●pientia s●ientia Des c. As if our good God had procured and perfected this punishment not as if that wicked fiend the Deuill foule and abhominable had been the sole author of it yet the end hee saith if it were true as graunting yet to none is there any preiudice by this of Saluation because neither the Church then was without a head which is Christ c. yet he speaketh doubtfully in a plaine case least a blot so filthy to the Church otherwise pure should not appeare to be abhorred The standing Image of which he maketh mention the Esauites doe suppose that it hath not the shape of the woman and her infant but of some Priest with his boy going afore him to Sacrifice least otherwise they should ●a● nothing to contradict it The way that declyneth from the right way as in all other matters so in this they doe take it to be the most commodious way for them to goe in presession whereas we doe heare by others that haue with contemplation curiously behelde both say this way is more commodious and shorter then the other But some thinke this monument of such dishonor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the most memorable place of all others is distroyed abandoned and vnbound now and a good while agoe to abolish or to deminish her fame with vs the Heritiques and aduersaries to the Church of Roome that doe so play on stages and stirre it vp in this our time As with all the visage of this popit or little Pope momit or little mome in the Citty of Seene in the primary Church there made with a womans face with this inscription Femina de Anglia But all English men defie her and together with many other Popes which are now a fewe yeeres past eyther cald in or remooued away as we heare William Iames Monke of Ecmondence neere to Alcmaria in a parchment booke now two hundred yeares past as far as I can coniecture written doth containe the liues of the Popes in meeter such as were vsed in that time to be composed too too curiously euen vnto obscurity therin being obserued the number of Sillables and the rithme which such as they are as touching this Ione accept I pray you Priusquam reconditur Sergius vocatur Ad summa qui dicitur Iohannes huic addatur Anglicus Moguntia iste procreatur c. The Lyons gone the Seriant is vntoomb'd one calde To climbe whom trauel had with child benūb'd Ione stald Would flying fame of her had neuer humb'd she faid Whom England nam'd but Mens did bring her foorth Whom