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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16286	A briefe description of the whole world Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires and kingdomes of the same, with their academies. As also their severall titles and situations thereunto adioyning. Written by the most Reverend Father in God, George, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, lengraver.	1636 (1636)	STC 32; ESTC S115786	116,815	362

of a Duke which raigneth as an absosute Prince and by little and little hath so incroched on his own Citizens and Neighbours round about him that hee hath gotten to be called and that not unworthily Magnus Dux Hetruriae or the great Duke of Tuscany The great Duke of Tuscany A great part of the rising of the Family of the Medices which are now Dukes of Florence may be ascribed to the cunning carriage of themselves but it hath been much advanced forward by their felicitie in having two Popes together of that house which were Leo the Tenth and Clement the Seventh who by all means laboured to stablish the government of their Country upon their kindred and it made not the least accesse thereunto that affinity was contracted by them with the Kings of France when Katherine de Medices Neece to Pope Clement the Seventh was married to the younger sonne of Francis the first whose elder brother dying that younger came to be King of France by the name of Henry the Second for as in the time of her Husband she layd the foundation of her aspiring so after the death of the sayd husband when she bare the name of the Queene Mother This Queen Mother swayed all at her pleasure in France during the successive raigne of her three sonnes Francis the Second Charles the ninth and Henry the third in all which time no doubt she promoted Florence and the Florentines to her uttermost A great part of Italy under the Bishop of Rome A good part of Italy is under the Bishop of Rome which is commonly called The land of the Church where the Pope is a Prince absolute not only spirituall as elsewhere hee claymeth but also temporall making Lawes requiring Tribute raising Souldiers executing Iustice as a Monarch The Bishops of Rome do pretend that Constantine the Great did bestow upon them the City of Rome together with divers other Cities and Towns neere adjoyning and the Demeans of them all to be as the Patrimony of Saint Peter as many times they do tearme it But Laurentius Valla in his set Treatise of this argument hath displayed the falshood of that pretence and in truth the greatnesse of the Popes hath risen first by Phocas who killing his Master the Emperour of Rome The manner of the rising of the Popes greatnesse and being favoured by the Bishop of that Sea and so aspiring himself to the Empire did in recompence thereof suffer the Bishop of Rome to be proclaimed Vniversall Bishop and of likelihood gave unto him somewhat to maintain his estate And afterward King Pipin of France and Charles the Great his sonne getting by means of the said Bishop the Kingdome of France and the one of them to the Empire did bestow good possessions upon the Papacy and since that time the Popes have had so much wit as by destruction of the Princes of Italy by encroaching on the favour of others the great Monarchs of Europe and by their warres and other devices to keepe and increase that Land of the Church which in our time is well inlarged by the policy of Clement the Eighth late Pope who hath procured that the Dukedome of Ferrara is or shal be shortly added to his Dominion Rome the chief residency of the Pope The chief residence of the Bishop of Rome is Rome it selfe which was first founded by Romulus and afterwards so increased by others who succeeded him that it was built upon seven hils hath had only raigning in it seven Kings and hath been ruled by seven severall sorts of chief government that is Kings Consuls Decem-viri Tribunes of the people Dictators Emperours and Popes They first incroached on the neighbours about them in Italy afterwards on all Italy Sicily some of the Ilands till at length it proved to be the Lady and chief Mistresse of the world whose incredible wealth and greatnes in men treasure shipping and armour was so huge that it did even sink under the wealth of it self Wherupon after divers civill wars as between Marius and Sylla Pompey and Caesar with others it was at length revoked unto one absolute and Imperiall government The Majesty wherof notwithstanding was afterward somewhat impayred by the building of Constantinople which was erected or rather inlarged by Constantine the Great and called Nova Roma But when the division was made of the East and West Empire it received a greater blow yet the main overthrow of it was when the Gothes and Vandals entred Italy sacked it and possessed it at their own pleasure so that it was for a time almost quite forsaken and had no inhabitants till the Bishops of Rome did make means to gather together some to people it againe and since those times a good part of the old building upon the Hils hath beene quite decayed ruinated and that Rome which now may be called in comparison of the old new Romes is built on a lower ground where the place was which in times past was termed Campus Martius very neer unto Tyber the River which too well appeareth by the sudden inundation of that Tyber destroying and spoyling men cattell and houses as very lately to their great losse was experimented The Bishops of Rome as sometimes for their pleasure or profit they do withdraw themselves unto Bologna or some other Townes of Italy so the time was when they removed their court unto Avignon a City in France standing neer the Mediterranean soa and not far from Marsiles in Province where continuing for the space of seventy yeers they so afflicted the Citie of Rome for lack of resort which is very great when the Pope is there that the Italians to this day do remember that time by the name of the Captivity of Babylon which continued as appeareth by the Scripture for seventy yeeres Who so looketh on the description laid down by the Holy Ghost in the Revelation shall see that the Whore of Babylon there mentioned can be understood of no place but the Citie of Rome In the South part of Italy lyeth the Kingdome of Naples which is a Country very rich Nap'es lyeth in the South part of Italy and full of all kind of pleasure abundant in Nobility whereof commeth to be said that Proverb Naples for Nobilitie Rome for Religion Millain for Beauty Florence for Policie and Venice for Riches This was heretofore ruled by a King of their own till the time of Ioane Queene of Naples who by deed of gift did first grant that Kingdom to the Kings of Arragon in Spain and afterward by will with a revocation of the former Grant did bequeath it to the house of Anjoy in France Since which time the Kingdome of Naples hath sometimes been in the hands of the Spaniard somtimes possessed by the French and is now under the King of Spain The Dukedome of Calabria unto this is annexed also the Dukedome of Calabria This Kingdome of Naples lyeth so neere to some part of Graecia which is