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A62355	Italy in its original glory, ruine, and revival being an exact survey of the whole geography and history of that famous country, with the adjacent islands of Sicily, Malta, &c. : and whatever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of the world) and all those towns and territories mentioned in antient and modern authors / translated out of the originals for general satisfaction, by Edmund Warcupp, Esquire.	Schottus, Franciscus, 1548-1622.; Warcupp, Edmund.	1660 (1660)	Wing S891; ESTC R14486	337,341	355

present a religious Person and a lover of Learned men BASSANO FRom Trento the way lies to Bassano travelling towards the East by the Valley of Sugana called by the Antients Euganea because a People of that name dwelt there This Plain is eighteen miles in length and two only in bredth whence you may go to Venice but 't is too long a journey Five Miles forth of Trent is situated the rich and populous Countrey of Perzene At the Head of the Valley near Primolano are the confines between the Venetians and Germans Upon the high Mountain of Primolano is there built a most strong Bulwark of the Venetians called Strada where a few Souldiers can repel the Dutch when ever they offer by violence or force to advance forwards At twelve miles distance from thence towards the East among the Alps is the City of Feltre by the which way at the right-hand-shore of the River Brent three miles distance from Scala is seated Cavolo a Fort of the Germans inexpugnable in respect that 't is founded upon a great Rock directly hanging over the high-way with a Fountain of living water in it whereto neither Man nor Goods can be mounted from the Earth unless fastned to a Rope and that wound up upon a wheel from which because 't is a very narrow way underneath between the Mountain and the River with small labour may their enemies be slain with Stones cast on them as they march along Thence five miles distant is the River Cisimone wch disembogues it self into the Brenta where the Dutch and Feltrini daily load great quantities of Timber and Wood as well for the use of Building as for firing which they afterwards transport to Bassano to Padoua and to Venice Seven miles distant from Bassano on the Right-hand-shore of the Brent lies the Countrey of Valstagna placed at the foot of the Mountains and famous for the Sawes there made thence distant three miles lies the Countrey of Campese where in the Church of the Fryers of Saint Benedict lies buried he that wrote la Macharonea Bassano lies at the foot of this streight Valley and is washed towards the West by the Brent called antiently Brenta or Brentesia the which hath its Sourse or head beyond the Alps of Trent twelve miles near Levego Over the Brent a little forth of the Gate of Bassano is built a great Bridge of Wood which conjoyns both the Rivers Between the Alps and this Castle there are some Hills which produce most abundantly all things requisite as well for necessary living as delicacy but most particularly they abound with Olives and precious Wines The River Brenta runs thorow the Territory of Vicenza passeth by the City of Padoua and in the end dischargeth it self by the Fenny or Moorish grounds into the Sea In this River they take excellent Fish as Trouts Pollard or Chieven Eyles Pyke Tench Lampreys Barbel and Crabfish In no place are the men more ingenuous in Merchandize than in this particularly in weaving of Cloth in turning most neatly in Ivory and in Carving in Nut-Trees There is never a year that they dress less than fifteen thousand pound weight of Silk and notwithstanding that that which is made in China is esteemed better than is made in any other part of the world nevertheless 't is known that this of Bassano is more subtile or thin and more light Hence the Family of the Carrareci drew their Original and Eccellino the Tyrant as also Lazaro surnamed Bassano a person not meanly learned nor less acquainted in the Greek tongue than in the Latine he lived a long time in Bologna with great satisfaction to the learned afterwards he rendred himself at Padoua to the end that he might illuminate those who were studious of good Letters At present Giacomo dal Ponte an excellent Lymner greatly illustrates this Country together with four of his Sons called vulgarly the Bassani Bassano hath under it twelve Towns which with it self contein to the number of twelve thousand Souls MAROSTICA AT three miles distance from Bassano towards the West is seated a strong place named Marostica a Castle built by the Lords of Scala near the Mountain and fortified with Walls and two Sconce●… Antiently this Castle stood in the neighbouring Mountain which looks towards the East where at this time are to be seen the Foundation●… Here the Air is most perfect and the Countrey as pleasant and produceth excellent fruits in great abundance but it most excels in Cherries of all sorts which are so infinitely pleasant and so well ●…elished that therefore in many places they are called Marosticane There are many Fountains of clear Water and thence about two miles is a Lake called Piola whose waters abate and rise in the same manner as they in the Golf of Venice with great admiration to the beholders The Inhabitants of this Castle are extreme contentious whereupon an Elegant Poet wrote thus Restat in Civibus Marii discordia vetus Quae cum Syllanis saevit in urbe viris Within this Castle are many Churches among which is that of Saint Bastiano where the Fryers of Saint Francis dwell wherein lies the Body of the blessed Lorenzuolo the Child Martyred by the wicked Jews who antiently there inhabited Francesco of the Family of the ●…reschi hath much illustrated this Castle who publickly Read the Civil Law in Padoua and likewise Angelo Mateaccio who hath composed some Books of the Laws At this present adds no small Fame to this his Countrey Prospero Alpino the most excellent Physician publique Reader of the first matter of Simples in the Academy of Padoua who hath written De plantis AEgypti De Opobalsamo and De Praesagienda vit●… morte AEgrotantium lately published And is now employed besides his publick Reading in composing and ripening some other noble Work for publick view Thorow the middle of this Castle runs the little River called Rozza whence about a mile passeth the Sillano so called because in Antient Language it signified a Stream of running water 'T is believed that the Antient Romans much frequented this Place for that the Inhabitants to this day retain certain Latine words though something corrupted Before the Church of Saint Floriano stand two Marble Stones of great antiquity upon the one whereof is written thus TI Claudio Caes. M. Salonius ⸫⸫ es Martina Chara Conjux quae Venit de Gallia per mansiones L. Vi commemoraret memoriam Mariti sui Bene quiescas duleissime mi Marite TREVISO THe Antient City of Treviso is situated on the East of and at the distance from Bassano twenty five miles This City was founded by Osaride the third King of the Gre●…ans who being adopted Son of Dionisius therefore conceded unto him AEgypt and Reigned in Italy ten years And because after his death there appeared to the AEgyptians an Ox they supposing it to be their King Osiris worsnipped it as a God and called it Ap●… which in their language signifies an Ox for which reason

Patriark of Aquileia wherein he made such progress as is not to be imagined let it suffice that he restored the Church to its Liberty and delivered the Florentines and Italy for which his Noble deeds he was by Pope Eugenius the 4th made Cardinal of S. Lorenzo then Bishop of Albany and Chancellor of the holy Church he dyed in the yeer 1465 at this day is his Family extinct And besides these there were others of this City intended for Cardinals who being overtaken by death could not possess that dignity as Gabriel Capodelista Aquensian Arch-Bishop was defigned Cardinal by Pope Clement the 5th in 1304. Bartol Zabarella Arch-Bishop of Florence having been Apostolick Legate in Germany France and Spain for weighty affairs with the happy success of his Labours and the great satisfaction of Pope Eugenius the 4th was by him designed Cardinal but upon his return an indisposition seised him and deprived him of Life in Sutry being but forty seaven yeers old in Anno nostrae salutis 1445. Francesco Lignamineo Bishop of Ferrara and Apostolick Legate was by Pope Engenius the 9th designed Cardinal but he was prevented by his death in the yeer 1412. Antonio Giannotti a famous Lawyer Bishop of Forli and Arch-Bishop of Urbin was Vice Legate in France and Bologna where he dyed at his 65th yeer being then by Pope Clement the 8th designed Cardinal Anno 1591. In the Palace of the Bishop these things are worth a sight The most ample diocess of Padoua drawn in a large square by Marco Cornaro Bishop of Padoua a Prelate worthy of eternal memory and a great Hall where to the life as is believed are drawn the Pictures of 112 B●…shops of this most antient and Noble City The Church of Saint Antonio of Lisbone merits the second Place amongst Padoua's fair Churches as well for the design and artifice as for the pretiousness of the Marbles and other Ornaments The Roof of this Temple is distinguished into six marvellous Chapels covered with Lead First must be seen the Royal Chapel of this Saint adorned with the finest Marbles and 12 Noble Collumns in the nine spaces of which Columns between the one and tother are engraven his Miracles by the most rare Sculptors of that Age so well that it renders the spectators stupified In the midst of which Chapel ari●…es the Altar of this Saint and within it lies entered his body Upon this altar stand seaven Figures of Brass of a just proportion wrought by Tytian Aspetti the excellent sculptor of Padoua Its Roof is adorned with the fairest Frets and figures made of pargetting stuff guilt richly and its Pavement exactly composed with Marble and Porphyry ●…heckerwise This Saint having lived 36 yeers dyed the 13th of June 1231 and was canonized by Gregory the 9th in the City of Spoleto in the yeer 1237. On which day in Padoua they go in procession carrying his Tongue in a little woodenBoul with great solemnity and superstition which is accompanyed with all the Fryers of Saint Francis that is to say by the Conventuals Capucines and those that go uppon woodden Pattens called Zoccolani and with all the Doctors of the Colleges as well of the Laws and Physick as those of Divinity and Philosophy wherewith they also carry all the Vessels of Silver and other pretious things bestowed upon this their Saint as also an infinite number of their holy Reliques preserved in curious Vessels Among which are the Figures of ten Saints of pure Silver 16 rich Chalices 50 Vessels 3 whereof are to contayn their Eucharist many Silver Candlesticks Lampades Censores and 50 Sylver Votaries or pieces dedicated by the vowes of several persons which are as big as a small Child Likewise a Shipp furnished with Masts Sayls and Shrouds together with a model of the City of Padoua both being neatly cast in Silver In a fayr Reliquiary they preserve the Tongue of the glorious Saint Anthonio and in another his under Chap. In others all of Silver guilt framed with most exact workemanshipp they keep a cloth dipped in the pretious blood as they say of our Saviour Jesus Christ three thornes of his Crown some of the wood of his Cross of the hairs and milk of the blessed Virgin some of the Blood issuing out of the five wounds given Saint Francesoo and many of the Bones and other rare reliques of infinite of their Saints as may be seen in the Treatise published by Count Giacomo Zabarella Praesident and Treasurer of the Venerable Tombe of the glorious Saint Antonio Who befides the revenue of the Convent wherewith the Fathers are maintein ed possesseth a great Revenue together with much Silver and other pretious househouldstuff all bestowed upon that Saint by Princes and private Persons which Wealth is governed by seaven Presidents vulgarly called the Signori all' Archa di San Antonio three Ecclesiasticks and 4 Seculars with a Casheer who receives the Revenues and pays the Musicians and other disbursements which Officers are elected every yeer and every Six Moneths two of them change In the Convent is a fayr publick Library much amplified by the reverend Father Francesco Zanotti an eminent Person of Padoua who alwaies governed his Convent with great prudence as Guardian and his Religious Order whereof he was Provincial whereto the most reverend Father Michael Angelo Maniere Guardian and Provincial also hath added his Industry with great success and evidence of his Prudence Virtue and Goodness both whose good Actions have given ●… great Splendour to the Fame of this most Noble Convent Near to this said Library is another Room wherein are kept the rare collections of Count Giacomo Zabarella given to the said Saint which consists of many excellent Books and Manuscripts and all the Histories in being of Padoua Venice and other Cities which no where else are to be found also of Medals Marbles brass Pieces and other notable Antiquities with the Golden Key and all his workes all which being before fully related are here abbreviated to avoid Prolixity Opposite to the Altar of Saint Antonio is the Chapel of Saint Felix the Pope of like grandezza where also repose his Bones ●…ound about which are hung Pictures excellently wrought by Giotto wherof Daute Boccacio and other writers take particular notice In it are the Tombes of the Signori Rossi and Lupi Marqueses of Soragna and next the Chapel of Saint Antonio with which it maintains like Grandure and Fame it is the most eminent of all the greater Altar whereof is richly carved in Marble and hath on the right side a Candlestick of a very great heighth and wrought with many Figures over against it an artificial Chorus adorned with lovely Figures carved in wood In this Church likewise are the Sepulchers of Fulgosio of Marin and Ascanio Zabarella the first famous in Letters the second in Arms which are erected in the Chapel of Saint Catherine appertaining to their Family in another Tombe lies buried Andrea Zabarella with Montisia Polenta his Wife Daughter

was comissionated thither for the City of Bolognia In those dayes the Republicks Library flourished in this City with infinite cōcourse of Forein Nations abounding with the most worthy Professors in all the sciences and Arts which it appears continued to the yeer 1228. In which yeer Federick the second being exalted to the Empire an extream Enemy to the Pope and Cities of Italy after many ruines whch he brought on others in the yeer 1236 burnt and destroyed Vicenza exercising his greatest cruelty against the most potent Citizens which reduced it with great ease under the wicked Tyrant Eccellino continuing so until his death when waving and debilitated it by degrees crawled up the steps of its Antient Liberty yet not so strongly but that after 46 yeers it underwent by the Citizens neglect the Signory of the Scaligeri who there governed under the shadow and name of an Empire and that title not improperly taken for that Can Grande at that time their head was a most valiant and potent Lord. Vicenza was well treated under their government and many publick Edifices restored but the wheele of Fortune running round and the Line of those Lawfull Signors extinct Antonio the last of them and illegitimate was first deprived of Verona then of Vicenza by Gio Galleazze first Viscount of Milan by whom it was held very dear and so much honoured for its fidelity that he made it the Chamber of his Empire He dead Catarina his Wife distrusting her own ability to maintain so great Dominions by her Letters full of Courtesy absolving their Oath of fidelity gave the Vicentines ample Liberty to elect their own Government who after divers consultations and many solicitations to colleague themselves with the Switzers and to become one of their Cantons having at large supervised the great calamities of the passed times and fearing future miseries At length the Advice of He●…rico Capra a wise and esteemed Citizen of great Interest both for his many adherents and riches prevailed to surrender themselves of their own free accords to the Republick of Venice whose pleasing Goverment was then become famous through the whole world Who accepting with all Gratitude this their free offer confirmed unto them all such Jurisdictions Statutes Prerogatives as they knew how to demand and in particular the Consularship the most Antient Magistracy of this City and received it into protection styling it the first Born and most faithfull City under whose Signory it hath ever since continued dayly encreasing both their Wealth and conveniences Yet notwithstanding at the Inroad of Gi●…radada the State of Venice though unwillingly gave way to the Signory of the whole firm Land by which means Vicenza fell into the hands of Massiminian the Emperor who sent thither Leonardo Trissino to receive possession thereof as Vicar of the Empire which he performed there as also in Padoua Who with Vicentia through the great affection they bore the Republick of Venice and the singular Prudence of the Venetian Senate within some few yeers after easily returned to their former Obedience under it This City is four miles in circuit in form like the figure of a Scorpion although informer times it had the Reputation of strong from the double Walls which invironed it yet t is neither fortified nor capable of Fortification it being situated at the bottome of a Hill that comands the Town however voluntarily living like the Antient Spartans the Citizens pro●…ess that the Walls of their Breasts suffice to maintain even to the death their Fidelity to their natural Prince which preserves it with safety It is washed by two Rivers Bacchileone by some Latines called also Meduaco Minore and Rerone Ereteno before mentioned together with two other small Brooks Astichello and Seriola which serve them with many conveniences All which united at a small distance from the City form a Navigable River as well upwards as downwards capable of Vessels of a huge burthen who passing by Padoua reach Venice and give the best occasion and reason for the riches of that Countrey They account that it with the Burroughs conteyn 40000. Souls being replenisht with Proud and Stately Palaces Noble Temples and publick Structures built after the modern Architecture the Hall of Justice wherein the Judges assemble to do Justice for its Antient and modern Structure may be compared with any in Italy Upon the highest Tower raised to a Wonder which joyns to it is placed the Horologe which serves all the City within and a mile out of it most comodiously The Piazza most capacious for all their Justings and Turnaments where morn even rēder themselves the Nobility is no less adorned with Open Galleries the Fōrt of the said Palace than with a fayr habitation for the Seignor Capitano and the Fabrick of that mount Piety which is so rich that they lend such sums as the poor Citizens require without any Usurie Besides this which is called Piazza Maggiore there are five other Piazzaes for the publick markets of Poultry Grain Wine Wood Hay Fish Fruits and Herbs And as the Splendidness of the Vicentians Spirits is apparent in profane things so does their Piety and magnificense no less shine in and towards the Divine worship For which they number in the City 50. Churches accounted Stately and beautified with antient and modern Pictures whereof 14. are Parochials 17. of Fryers and 12. of Nuns all well furnished with receptacles and other necessaries for subsistence Among which the Mendicants or begging Fryers by the Charity of the Citizens have no mean Reliefs In the Country are also 3. other Monasteries of Nunns and above 20. of Fryers besides Parochials which are very ample in the Villages They are well stored with Hospitals for the poor of all conditions having nine besides the Confraternities and other retreats of Godly pe●…sons who wait on works of Charity In the Cathedral signal for the good Bishoprick of 12000 Duckats yeerly Revenue besides other Reliq●…es they keep the bodies of the Martyrs Carpoforo and Leoncio Vicentines And in the Church of Santa Corona of the Dominican Fryers one of the thorns of the Crown of the Saviour of the World given in the yeer 1260. by Lodovico or Lewis the Saint King of Franee to Bartolomeo Breganze Citizen and Bishop of Vicenza It received the Light of the Faith of Christ by the teaching of Saint Prosdocimo first Bishop of Padcua Saint Paul yet living Near the Domo stands l'Oratoria de Madonna or the Oratory of our Lady raised by those of that confraternity in imitation of that of Rome which possibly in magnificence and beauty it surpasseth It s State under the Venetian Dominion is such as certainly no City under their power hath greater privileges The Consul the most antient Jurisdiction of this City judging all Criminal Offences and its own Citizens all other civil Causes For which end the Council chuseth a round of four Doctors and 8 Laicks which change by fours every month These form the

but something Stoney Some will have it called Brescia from Britein which in the Language of the Galli Senones the restorers of this City signifie rejoycing Trees as if the quantity of Fruits wherewith they are yeerly hung made them rejoyce Livie and other grave Authors write that Brescia was built by the Galli Senones in that age when the Kings commanded in Rome and that the Romans made themselves Masters thereof after they had conquered all Lombardy They further say that it alwaies kept inviolable Faith with the Roman People and particularly in that calamitous time when Hannibal destroyed their Armies Besides they say that it was reduced into a Colony of the Romans after the associated Warr together with Verona and the other Cities on that fide the Po by Cn. Pompeius Strabo Father of Pompey the Great and a little time after Caesar reckoned the Brescians in the number of the Roman Citizens under whose Empire it continued till its Majesty was at the height when it was no less rich than potent as may easily be conjectured from the many antient Marble Stones and Statues with the inscriptions and Epitaphs of illustrious Persons and of divers famous deeds thereon which ly dispersed in the City and up and down its Territory T is seated in a plain at the foot of certain Hills more long than broad although but three miles in circuit yet well replenished with dwellings and inhabitants It s vicinity to the Hills beautifies it with many Fountains a commodity which many Cities of Lombardi want In it are many Piazzaes the greatest whereof is that where the publick Palace is erected which for its fairness may be accounted one of the Noblest Edifices of Italy Under which Palace are fair Porches with shops affording well tempered Belly pieces of Armour Swords Muskets and other military Arms which hath nominated it Brescia the Armed other shops are no less furnished with the finest Linnen cloth a Commodity by which these Citizens acquire great Riches A small River called Garcia passeth thorow the City which at its issuing forth is artificially drawn on this and that side to irrigate their Fields It hath five Porrs or Gates and one impregnable Castle built with Stone upon a Hill The Torre de Pallada is of rare Tuscan work and therein is the Great Bell of the City It heretofore suffered much calamity through the Factions and enmity of its Citizens whose fury was such that proscription and Death to their Enemies without fyring and destroying their Houses and Goods but trivally appeased Which caused it to change in 28. yeers its Soveraign seven times in the time of Lewis the third and Otto Emperors Its Citizens being much addicted to Arms. T is a most horrible thing to read the History of Capriole o●… those calamitous times representing the great slaughters of the Citizens with their Proscriptions and Banishments the sacking burning and ruining of their Habitations and the desolation of the City much resembling the times and Actions of Marius and Scilla and the Triumviraie At this day t is governed by the Venetians with great peace and such increase of Riches that its former smart is scarce perceptible It received the light of the Christian Faith by the preaching of Sant Apollinare Bishop of Ravenna in the yeer of our Lord 119. It hath some fayr Churches among them the Domo whose Bishop with a good Revenue hath the Tide of Duke Marquiss and Count where a Skie-coloured Cross called Oro Fiamma is much reverenced by the People who indubitably beleeve it to be the same which appeared to Constantine the Emperour fighting against Maxentius The Motto in hoc signo Vinces Next is the Church of Santa Giulia the Martyr built by Desiderius King of the Longobards in the yeer 735. adorned with rich Vests and pretious vessels and honoured with the bodies of many Saints together with those of Ansilperga the Sister and Hermingarda the Daughter of that King which ly in its noble Monastery wherein two daughters of Lotario the first Emperor one sister of Charles the the third one Daughter of Berengarus the Userper of the Empire with many other Virgins of Royal blood have spent their days in the ●…ervice of God under the Orders of Saint Benedict Brescia is well replenished with People and among them with many noble and illustrious Families as the Gambari the Martinengi the Magi the Avogradi Averoldi Luzaghi Emilii and others It hath given Birth to many Saints of whom they name only San Giovita and Faustino who suffered Martyrdom for the Faith of Christ on the Walls towards Verona whereof at this day appear some Marks of it It hath had thirty Bishops canonized for Saints Its Territory is so large spatious and long that t is believed the Bishop thereof hath the Cure of near Eight Hundred Thousand Souls It abounds with all things necessary for human Sustenance and the People are reputed of a quick-witted and elegant Ingennity whereof an elegant Poet writes Caelum hilarem frons laeta Urbi gens nescia fraudis Atque modum ignorat divitis uber agri The Territory of BRESCIA THe Bresciau Territory is one hundred miles broad begining from Mosa 15. miles distant from Mantoua and ending at Dialengo at the top of Alcamonica and 50. miles long extending from Limona on the Lake Garda to the Orzi Novi the Countrey conteyning 450. Towns Villages and Castles well peopled and affording all sorts of Corn Grain Wine Oyl and Fruite Towards the East on the Road leading to Verona on the right hand stand G●…di Manerbio Calvesano Calcina to on the left the Mounta●…ns Bridigolo Padengo and the Lake with the fair Town of Lonato ●…5 miles off ●…rescia Towards the South by the way of Cremona a●… seen Virola and Asola a strong Castle Issuing sorth the Gate San Nazario towards the VVest on the right lies Priviato on the left Quintiano a noble Castle This is the way of the Orzi Novi where stands a strong Castle 20. miles from Brescia built in Anno 1134. Here they vant much of the excellency of their Linnen Cloth near which passeth the River Oglio which terminates the Venetians dominions And going out of the Gates Giovanni you meet the Torrent M●…la Coraio a rich Country and Reato the most populous Town of the Brescian Territories a little farther a most fertile plain beautified with many Castles from the dwelling of the French there in t is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but before you can reach Palazzolo must be passed the Riv●… 〈◊〉 over a stately Bridge from whence they enter the Territories of 〈◊〉 The BRESCIAN Valleys THis City hath three principal Valleys the first called Valcamonica lies towards the VVest and is bigger than both the other extending it self 50. miles towards the North is continued with surrounding Hills among which is a running current yeelding good Trouts which River enters at the head of the ●…ake Isseo running through it

and some Horse and Gasper Sardo writes that at the Naval fight bethe Christians and Sarazens in anuo 1179. Lucca had seaven Galleys under the command of Nino delli Obezi its Citizen a valiant Captain who was also Lieutenant of those of the Church in the same Fleet when they obtained immortal fame in that Victory and in 1303. the Lucchesi colleagued with the Florentines against the Pistoiesi and of the 16000. foot and 1600. Horse then in the Army the Lucchesi had 10000. Foot and 600. Horse This City was beloved and held in great esteem by the Romans conceding to it the fo much coveted privilege of a municipal City and making it a Colony We read in p●…rticular that at the needfull repairing of Rome C. Caesar passed a winter there with two hundred Senators whereof we●… Pompey and Crasus who here complotted and constituted the first Triumvirate Near the Church of Saint A●…gustine are some Reliques of a noble Temple dedicate to Saturn with the foot-steps of an Amphitheatre infallible testimonies of its Grandure In the time that Tuscany with the rest of Italy divided into 12 Governments was under the Longobardi Lucca was the appointed residence for the Regent of Tuscany where as such Desideri●…s resided when in a●…no 577. he was created King of the Longobardi Afterwards t was governed by Marqueses who also resided there as in the Metropolis of that Province where the Marchese Adalberto dwelt with infinite Splendour and so nobly in anno 902. received there Lewi●… the Emperour that he admiring the Kingly magnificence and grea●…nesse wherein the Marchese lived said to one of his Intimats that ●…ruly abstracting from the Title he saw not wherein the Marquess was inferiour to him Among the Marqueses of Tuscany Bonilf da Lucca for his great Riches his own valour and merits was so much renowned that he obtained for his wife Beatrice Daughter of Corradns the second and Sister of Henry the third whose Issue La Contessa Matilda in a short course of time remained Heiress and Lady of this and many other Cities of Italy and at her death bequeathed the City Ferrara and that state which is called the Patrimony of Saint Peter to the Roman Church by her last Will and Testament which is yet preserved in Lucca Afterwards Lucca began to relish the beloved fruits of its antient Liberty and in the yeer 1288. obtained a confirmation of it from the Emperour Rodolphus in which times being chiefly ruled by the Guelfan Faction it was a long time preserved in good amity and confederate with the Florentine Republique Wherefore in Anno 1304. when the Florentine Republique was much perplexed by the Factions Bianchi and Neri the Lucchesi were requested by the Florentines to aid them in repressing their tumultuous and confused Government and when absolute power was given to the Lucchesi over all Florence from Lucca were sent some of the most prudent Citizens accompanied with 9000. Souldiers the most part horse Who being suddainly arrived settled their guards up and down the City as they pleased and as if the City Florence had been absolutely under their Do minion which done they took in hand the government and with the entire satisfaction of that Republique in sixteen days they quieted the tumults and Factions and established the form of the Government for the future Some time after the which Lucca was governed by Ugoccione and by Castruccio its Citizen an excellent Captain who with his own single valour kept the neighbouring Common-wealth in continual fear and suspicion and finally after it had undergon for severall yeers through adverse fortune the tyranny of divers Governours its Usurpers It reobtained for a certain sum of mony its former Liberty from Charls the 4th which except from the yeer 1400. to 1430. when t was usurped by Paolo Gusinigi its Citizen it hath ever since enjoyed most happily and doth at present rejoice therein and live in great tranquillity yet under the protection of the Catholick King and with such security that those Gentlemen to w●…om the Goverment of the Republique is committed neither watch at nor take care for any thing more than the publique good and Union o●… all its Citizens the two principal and necessary Foundations for the maintenance of the Republique It s administration and Government is an Oligarchy This Clty is replenisht with many good and Artfull Structures and a great number of stately Churches Among which Its Cathedral dedicate to Saint Martin retains the chief prerogative This Church hath been much adorned and favoured by the Popes and first by Alexande●… the second who in the yeer of our Lord 1070. as we read in Baronius was pleased to take upon himself the pains to consecrate it then Urban the sixth in anno 1382. there celebrated Mass the night of the Nativity of our Lord and honoured the chief standard bearer with the reading the Epistle by his order The Bishop and Canons are endowed with great Privileges being allowed the use of the Archiepiscopal Ornaments that is a Cross and Pall and the Canons are faculted to bear the Priests cope and purple Sattin robes and the Mitre of white Sattin More Cardinalium and the Bishop is so great that the Canons acknowledge no other Superiour but the Apostolick Sea Among the many graces wherewith this Church is favoured by the most high God some may especially be considered first that Lucca was the first City of Tuscany that as Fr. Leandro and others recount received the light of the holy faith which happened in the 44th yeer of our Salvation by the means of Saint Paulino Antiocheno the Disciple of Saint Peter crowned a Martyr upon the hill S. Iuliano by Anozino President in Pisa. Secondly that in the time of Charles the Great with most singular favour it obtained the holy Countenance or Visage Volto Santo formed and placed miraculously by a divine hand on the venerable Statue of the Saviour of the World framed by Nichodemus his Disciple when he stood as 't were bereaved of senses with consulting to form the head with such perfection as might give honour to the Statue In it lie the bodies of S. Paolino Rigolo and Frediano It s principal Protectors with those of 33. other Saints whereof 14. were Lucchesi In the yeer 1588. was found here a Miraculous Image of our Lady through whose mediation God hath here done wonderfull graces to the faithfull of divers Nations It hath afforded Popes Cardinals Lords and famous Captains in great numbers with exquisite Sholars whereof one must be mentioned to wit Fryer Panigni having so great a renown through all parts of the world for his elaborate and exact Translation of the holy Scripture out of the Hebrew into the Latin Tongue whom we will set alone though many others in several Sciences Qualities and Honours might be well remembred with him Many noble Families quitted this their Countrey either to avoid the plagues or tyrannies of Usurpers and retreated to Venice and Genoua where some