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A79588	A discourse touching the Spanish monarchy. Wherein vve have a political glasse, representing each particular country, province, kingdome, and empire of the world, with wayes of government by which they may be kept in obedience. As also, the causes of the rise and fall of each kingdom and empire. VVritten by Tho. Campanella. Newly translated into English, according to the third edition of this book in Latine.; De monarchia Hispanica discursus. English	Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.	1653 (1653)	Wing C401; Thomason E722_1; ESTC R207219	193,362	240

while that we do nothing but fa●● together by the Eares one with another But if this cannot be brought about the Persians must then be persuaded to joyn with the Ethiopians Muscovites and Polonians as hath been said before And I do believe also that the Great Turks Bassaes and other of his Subjects would quickly be got to fall off from him if so be they could but be once fully perswaded assured that they should each of them really be made the absolute Lords of what they now possessed All which things ought to have their Accomplishment in the death of this Mahomet III. now Raigning seeing that That Number is Fatal The Great Turks Younger Sons also are to be seazed upon and conveigh'd away least the Eldest Brother should Murder them according to their usual Custome and this the Venetians may do conveniently enough by their Merchants or else the same may be committed to the Christian Slaves that are there to be done by them After that this Empire shall be thus weakned and divided it would be convenient then to send thether some Preachers who should endeavour to convince the Natives of their Error There should care also be taken by all meanes for the bringing of Printing into Turky by meanes whereof that People may be taken off from the exercise of Arms and may apply themselves to Books and by being taken up with Disputations concerning Points of Divinity and Philosophy both of the Peripateticks Stoicks Platonists and Telesians they may be divided amongst themselves and so be the more weakned For those that give themselves to the study of Books onely usually become a Prey to such as apply themselves to the exercise of Armes and the study of the Arts too as we see in the example of Athens which became a Prey to the Lacedemonians both which Nations Philip King of Macedon by the force of his Armes afterwards subdued being first instructed by Epaminondas by what meanes this was to be effectd Cato was wont to say that the Romans would lose their Empire so soon as ever they should begin to apply themselves to the study of the Greek Tongue and Sciences This the Great Turk who is wiser then We are knew very well and therefore preferred rather the exercise of Armes and got him great Guns and Slaves I mean those Jewes that were sent to him by Ferdinand the last King of Arragon for he knew very well what and how great Advantage might be made by S●●●es and that the Children that they should beget were to be brought up in the exercise of Armes and the knowledge of Military Affaires But then on the contrary He would not receive nor accept of those Printing-Presses and Letter for the Printing of the Arabick Tongue that were sent Him by the great Duke of Tuscany because he would not have his Dominions filled with Books because that would much take off the Military Valour of his Subjects and besides because that Mahumetanisme by frequent Disputations about it might easily in a short time have been overthrown It hath also been very prejudicial unto Us that we have had no Law made for the Injoyning of Silence whereby we should have been commanded to conceal some things from others which Law certainly would have been of very good use But now adaies in Germany all things are made Publick and laid open to the whole World and hence it is that we see every one there publisheth in Print a New Bible and that the Empire goes to ruine and that all places are overwhelmed with Luxury and Riot And had not the fear of the King of Spain's Armies kept the Netherlanders in Awe they also would by this time have been as Effeminate and Luxurious as the Germans are And the like would have befallen to the English also So that we might have hopes that unlesse there were a War maintained amongst them to keep them in exercise they would all quickly come to utter ruine after that they should but once come to be Effeminate Heart-lesse and at discord one with another as we have said formerly and that so much the rather because that the Heresie they professe seeing it denyes the Freedom of the Will is repugnant to all Principles of Policy Now all Heresies when they are once gone so far as to Atheisme are reduced again into the way of Truth by some Wise Prophet or other such as were in Italy Thomas Aquinas Dominicus Scotus and others For Heresies also have their Periods as well as States which fall first from being governed by good Kings into the hands of Tyrants from their Tyranny into an Aristocracy from thence into an Oligarchy and so at length to a Democracy and in the end they shift about again and in a Circle as it were return again to their first form either of a Kingdom or a Tyranny CHAP. XXXI Of the Other Hemisphere and of the New World THe Admirable Discovery of the New World which was foreseen by St. Brigitt and expressely foretold by Seneca in his Medea and there lively set forth in its proper Colours and Names according as he had received the same from one of the Sibylls hath been the cause that this Hemisphere of Ours hath been thereby rapt into the greatest Admiration that can be For some of the Ancientest among the Philosophers of which number was Xenophanes were of Opinion that That Other Hemisphere lay all covered over with Water some others as Lactantius and St. Augustine thought that the Earth was not a Perfect Globe about which the Sun was carried in his Diurnal Motion And some others believed among whom was Dante that those Countries were Inhabited and were a certain kind of Earthly Paradise Some there were that doubted hereof amongst whom was Aristotle and again some others of them confidently affirmed that the Earth was an Absolute and Perfect Orbe or Globe and of this number were Plato and Origen And therefore it is but for just cause that all the World admires the Spanish Monarchy as both very Daring and very Powerful seeing that It hath measured and overcome so many Seas and in a short space of time hath put a girdle about the vast Globe of the Whole Earth which neither Carthage nor Tyre were ever heretofore able to do nor yet the wisest of All Men King Solomon whose Fleet making its Voyage as far as Goa only and Taprobane spent alwaies three whole years in the same which yet Our Seamen now adaies perform in three Moneths time So that although the Vast distance of place that there is betwixt the several parts of the Spanish Monarchy seems to render It Weak yet doth their Admirable Skill in Navigation for the shortening of those Distances together with those other Means of Uniting these Parts which the Spaniards daily do make use of or may make use of when they please make the same most Illustrious and more Admirable then some perhaps do imagine However to the end that the King of Spain may not

there be no hopes at all left of reducing these men and bringing them back again into the True Way and making them to submit themselves to our Government and Doctrine then must the King embrace that counsel which was given by Terentius Varro to Hostilius for the keeping of the Tuscans within the bounds of their Duty and Obedience namely let him so order the matter as that they should not be able to shake off the yoak if they would never so fain And this may be done by observing these three things namely by bringing them to be Low-spirited Weak and lastly if they be Kept asunder from one another for the Boldnesse that any take upon them in attempting to cast off the Yoak from their Necks proceeds either from their Height of Spirit or from their Strength or else from their Multitude But before these severer Courses are taken with them it cannot be expressed how mightily advantageous it would be to the businesse in hand if so be the Children of Infidels were put to such Masters as should instruct them in the Arts and Liberal Sciences and all such exercises as are fit for any Ingenuous Man to be brought up in for by this course alone we should at once oblige both the Children and the Parents also to Us. We must therefore erect as I said before Seminaries both for the Tongues and Armes which we call the Two Instruments of our Future Monarchy the Former of these for the reducing of all such of our Subjects as are Infidels and Hereticks and the bringing them back in a peaceable manner into the True Way and to a Unity of Faith and the Later to the end that they may be utterly weakned and deprived of all power in case they shall stand out and refuse to return to the True Faith of which we have formerly spoken elsewhere CHAP. XIX Of such Kingdomes as are Properly belonging to the King of Spain and of such also as are his Enemies and of these which are in League with each other and which not SOme are of Opinion that it is Impossible that the Kingdom of Spain should stand long as well because almost All Other Nations are either Enemies to it or at least not very good Friends as also by reason of the remotenesse of the several parts of it from each other some lying in the New World and others lying scatteringly here and there like Islands as in Italy the Low-Countries and in Africk all which are most different from one another both in their Languages Situation and Temper of the Climate whereas on the contrary the Turk who layes claime to the Universal Empire of the whole World hath his Dominions lying all close together and besides in his Wars he observes the same Course that the Romans heretofore did in making War alwayes upon his Neighbours only that lye round about him Neither can the Enmity or hatred of those Nations that are his Enemies do him any hurt at all for as much as he brings up within his own Dominions Young Children of all sorts of which afterwards he maketh Souldiers so that his Empire seems in a manner to be nothing else but a Military Republick Neither can Religion at all hinder his proceedings and besides his Bashawes or Governours of Provinces have all of them an absolute power of Rule given them so that they need not stand in fear of poor naked and unarmed People whom if they should but offer to rise they would be able to suppresse by their own Sons Whosoever desires to become a great Monarch it will behoove him to be continually in making War upon all his Neighbours that lye round about him and to reduce them under his subjection as soon as possibly he can For thus the Romans heretofore did first of all setting upon the Sabines and Latines and then afterwards falling upon the Aequicolae the Peligni the Veientes Lucanians Tuscans and Samnites alwayes going round in a Circle till at length having subdued all Italy they passed over into Sardinia Sicily Spain Gaule and Germany The self same Course was taken by the Babylonians in their expeditions against those of Asia and the Persians The Macedonians did the like making War upon the Thebans first then falling upon the Epirotes Lacedemonians Achaians and Aetolians and afterwards passing over into Asia they filled it wholly with their Armies in so much that at length as Livy and Plutarch write they were so puft up with the glory of their Victories as that they would have marcht on against the Romans and Carthagineans also Certainly had not Alexander the Great been taken off by an untimely death he would without all doubt have made an Expedition against the Romans also I say therefore that the Turk does at this day take the very same course that the Greatest Empires in former times did For having first subdued all Asia Minor he then passed over into Europe and conquered all Greece next he falls upon Syria Egypt and Armenia till at length he came as far as Macedonia Epirus and Hungary Where after he had taken in some certain Christian provinces and added them to his Empire and that the Christians now out of a General fear of being swallowed up by him betook themselves all to their Armes and joyned their whole strengths together against him He then very craftily and subtlely makes a Truce with them and agrees upon conditions of Peace These things passing on thus the Christians in the mean while fall at variance among themselves and make war upon each other so that the Turk being now secure from any Molestation by them turnes his Victorious Armes against the Kings of Persia or Georgia till such time that finding the Christians all to peices again among themselves he thinks fit then to strike up a Truce with the Persian or those other of his enemies whosoever they were and so falls on again upon the Christians with all the strength he hath and does them what mischeif lies in his Power And then while They are fain to spend time in consulting what is to be done the Turk he goes on still Victoriously taking in now one Place and then another without controule So great and of so dangerous and sad Consequence are those Intestine Dissensions that are at this day kept up among the Christian Princes But the King of Spain at one and the same time maintaines a War with several Nations neither hath he at any time all his whole forces joyned together in any one Battel by which meanes He utterly destroyes himself For we shall have him making War in the most Remote Parts of the World whiles yet in the mean time He hath all his Neighbours that lye round about Him his enemies as the English French Hollanders and perhaps even the Italians themselves also Whence it may seem that He takes a very crosse and unlikely way for the enlarging of his Dominions and Empire But to this Objection I Answer that though much of this is

out of Nice the Persians out of Antioch and the Saracens out of Ierusalem they afterwards laid wast the whole East and in a short time recovered the Holy Land In which Expedition this especially is to be taken notice of that neither the Emperour himself nor any other King was either their General or so much as went along with them in it And notwithstanding that afterwards indeed the Kings of France and of England as also the Emperours Conrade and Frederick made several expeditions into those parts not for the taking in of any New Countries but only for the keeping of what the others had formerly gotten yet for all there was not any thing at all done by them worth the speaking of But now there ought to be care taken in this businesse that all may share alike in what shall be gotten for otherwise the Design would be quite spoiled and never come to any thing For as in a Clock if there be any one Exorbitant or Irregular Wheel it spoiles the whole Harmony and mutual Agreement that should be in it so likewise in all Associations if there be any Deficiency in one Part it proves to be the cause of the Dissolution of the whole Union A clear example whereof we have in the League that was made betwixt the Popes Paul III. and Pius V. the King of Spain and the Venetians which though it were managed with the greatest diligence and eagernesse on all sides that could be and with Incredible successe also yet it came all to nothing at last and that meerly for this one reason namely because that it did not equally concern the Interests of all of them that That Expedition should be so carefully undertaken and so diligently carried on For Spain hath no great advantage by any thing that is done against the Eastern People which yet is most beneficial to the Venetians in like manner as it is of litle or no concernment to the Venetians what ever is done against Africk which yet is of very great advantage to Spain And this is the reason that the Venetians who stand in fear of the Power the Turk hath in the East and the Spaniards who are afraid of their Neighbours of Algier can never unanimously go on together against the Enemy with equal courage and desires And by this means the Pope lying in the mean time in the midst betwixt them both and being forced to be at a great charge yet hath no benefit at all thereby But to return to our Present discourse again whence we have digressed There is yet another way whereby the Turkish Empire might be over thrown and that is in case that some one of His Chief Commanders in war who was at first a Christian such as were Cicala Occhiali and Scanderbeg should be prevailed withal by such large Promises as should be made him as namely that he should have some Christian Province given him for his reward to betray the Turkish Navy unto us if at least He have it committed to his charge or else in case he hath been appointed by the Great Turk to manage any Kingdom under him as His Viceroy he should then have the possession of that Kingdom promised him as suppose of Tunis Algier or the like For there is no doubt to be made but that such a one had rather be the Sole Absolute Lord of any Kingdom whatsoever it be and so to have the Power of transmitting it over to his Posterity then to be but a kind of Nobler Slave to the Great Turk having neither Power in his life time to give away any thing to his friends nor at his death to leave any thing to them And I am verily perswaded that there is nothing that keeps these men from attempting such a Rebellion against the Turk more then because they dispaire of ever being able to bring any such their Undertakings to effect as not daring to confide in the Christians or to rely upon them for Assistance Yet if they were but sincerely and Ingenuously dealt withal I am clearly of opinion that they might be brought to this It may also so happen that some such Gallant Vindicator of the Peoples Liberty may spring up among the Turks themselves as was Moses the Hebrew among the Subjects of Pharaoh King of Egypt and such a One in case the Great Turk should entrust him with any great Authority or Charge might questionlesse be able to do him an infinite deal of Mischief There might also a General Association be made amongst the Christians by whom He might be brought to a Pitch'd Battel as we said before and might have one or two such Notable Blowes given him by them that he should be never able to hold up his head again because that he hath not any Nobles that might relieve him in such a case And this might the more easily be done because that he hath within his Dominions an Infinite Number both of Christians and Jewes who if they but once saw him overthrown would all presently come over to Us. And yet in the procuring of such an Association as this there would be required either very much Patience in the Pope and the King of Spain or else a very great necessity that should force All of them to joyne together Now these Princes should all be bound by mutual Covenants drawn up betwixt them that every one of them should have a Proportionable Share of what soever shall be gotten by the said expedition and also that those that have gotten possession of their own share shall assist the rest also in the getting of theirs after the Example of Reuben and Dan who after they had possessed themselves of the Country that lay on this side Jordan were then to assist their brethren in the subduing of the further part of it that lay beyond Jordan There ought also to be a persuasion wrought into All and every one of these Princes that by the King of Assyria in the Scriptures is prefigured unto us the Great Turk who after he hath destroyed the Kingdom of Israel that is to say the Kingdom of the East or that of Constantinople He will then next overthrow the Kingdom of Judah that is of the West except they repent them of their Heresy and return again into the Bosome of the Church of Rome which is our Jerusalem as I have written in my Christian Monarchy and that so together with the Empire the Priesthood also will be lost and will passe over into the New World as I have there demonstrated by Political Reasons except they take the Course here set down before them And perhaps also it may hereafter so come to passe And when the Turk who is the Typical Cyrus is destroyed then shall the Church be renewed again It is therefore most Necessary that all Christendom should joyn their forces together for the destruction of this Ravenous Wolf who by his Strength and Cunning hath taken from us Two Empires and Two Hundred Kingdomes mean