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A16490	A treatise, concerning the causes of the magnificencie and greatnes of cities, deuided into three bookes by Sig: Giouanni Botero, in the Italian tongue; now done into English by Robert Peterson, of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Seene and allowed; Delle cause della grandezza delle città. English	Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617.; Peterson, Robert, fl. 1576-1606.	1606 (1606)	STC 3405; ESTC S106249	59,704	122

A TREATISE CONCERNING the causes of the Magnificencie and greatnes of Cities Deuided into thre bookes by Sig Giouanni Botero in the Italian tongue now done into English By Robert Peterson 〈◊〉 To The right honorable my verie good Lord Sir Thomas Egerton knight Baron of Ellesmere Lord high Chauncelor of England and one of his Maiesties most honorable Priuie Councell MY very good Lord when I had enterteyned some of my free howers of vacation from other businesses with the reading of this Author in his owne language and that my liking led me into this further trauaile with him to translate him into our owne tongue I thought I had yet done little for him except I did also set him before the common eye of my country that the pleasure and proffit which I reaped in this worke might by this communication thereof redownd to many And that I might do so worthy a writer all right the matter consisting of Policie and State I could not addresse my selfe my translatiō of him to one whose wisedome and graue both experience and Iudgment might be more parallell to the substance of this worke or whose honorable fauour to my selfe might require of me more loue and dutie then your good Lordship To expresse this I haue been bold to commend these my labours to your honorable fauor beseeching you to make them happy in your protection of them and with them to receaue my humble dutie and seruice which resteth euer Your Lordships to be commaunded Robert Peterson A Table of all the Chapters conteined in these three bookes of the Causes of the greatnes of Cities In the first Booke What a Citie is and what the greatnes of a Citie is said to be Fol. 1. Of Authoritie 2. Of Force 4. How the Romanes encreased the Citie of Rome by wasting their neighbour Townes 7. That some haue gotten the Inhabitants of other Townes in to their owne Cities 8. Of Pleasure 9. Of Proffit 11. Of the commoditie of the Scite 13. Of the fruitfulnes of the Soyle 15. Of the commodity of Conduct 17. In the second Booke The proper meanes the Romanes vsed to appopulate their Cities 30. Of Colonies 33. Of Religion 36. Of Schooles and studies 41. Of the place of Iustice. 45. Of Industrie 47. Of priuiledges 53. Of hauing in her possession some Merchandize of moment 55. Of Dominion and power 60. Of the Residency of the Nobility 62. Of the Residency of the Prince 65. In the third Booke Whether it be expedient for a Citie to haue few or many Citizens 87. What the reason is that Cities once growen to a greatnes encrease not onward according to that proportion 89. Of the causes that doe concerne the magnificency greatnes of a Citie 97. THE FIRST BOOKE of Iohannes Boterus of the causes of the magnificencie and greatnes of Citties CAP. I. What a Citty is and what the greatnes of a Citty is sayd to be A Citty is sayd to be an assembly of people acongregation drawen together to the end they may thereby the better liue at their ease in wealth and plenty And the greatnes of a Citty is sayd to be not the largnes o●… the ●…ite or the circuit of the walles but the multitude and number of Inhabitants and their power Now men are drawen together vpon s●…ndry causes and occasions therevnto them moouing ●…ome by authority some by force some by pleasure and some by profit that proceedeth of it CAP. II. Of Authority _●… Ain was the first Author of Cittyes but the Poets whome Cicero therein followed fable that in the old world men scattered here and there on the mountaines and the plaines led a life little different from brute beastes without lawes without conformity of customes and manner of ciuile conuersation And that afterward there rose vp some who hauing with their wisdome and their eloquence wonne a speciall Reputation and Authority aboue the rest declared to the rude and barbarous multitude how much how great profit they were like to enioy if drawyng thēselues to one place they would vnite themselues into one body by an interchangeable cōmunicatiō cōmerce of all things that would proceed thereof And by this meanes they first founded Hamlets and Villages and after Townes and Cittyes and therevpon these Poets further seyned that 〈◊〉 and Amphi●…n drew after them the beasts of the fields the woods and stones meanyng vnder these fictions to signifie shew the grossenes of the witts and the roughnes of the manners of the same people But besides these fables we read of T●…eseus that after he had taken vpon him the gouernment of the Athenians it came into his mynd to vnite into one Citty all the people that dwelt in the contry there about dispersedly in many Villages abroad Which he easely effected by manifesting vnto them the great cōmodity good that would ensue of it The like thing is daily at this time put in practise in Brasill Those people dwell dispersed here there in caues Cottages not to call them houses made of boughes leaues of the Palme And for asmuch as this manner of life to liue so dispersedly causeth these people to remaine in that same sauage mynd of theirs and roughnes of maner and behauiour and bringeth therewith much difficulty hinderāce to the preaching of the Gospell to the conuersion of the Infidells the instruction of those that trauaile painfully to conuert them and to bring them to knowledge and ciuility The Portugalls Iesuits haue vsed extreame diligence and care to reduce draw them into some certaine place together more conveniēt for their purpose where liuing in a ciuile cōuersation they might more easely be instructed in the christian faith and gouerned by the Magistrate ministers of the King So that to this purpose I might here remember those citties that haue been built by the power and inhabited by the authority of great Princes or some famous cōmon weales For the Grecians and Phaenicians were the authors of an infinit sight of Citties And Alexander the great and other Kings erected a number more besides whereof beare witnes the Alexandriae Tholomai●…s Antiochiae Lysimachiae Philippopoles Demetriade●… Caesareae Augustae Sebastiae Agrippinae Manfredoniae and in our time Cosmopolis and the Citty of the Sonne But none deserueth more prayse in this kind after Alexan er the great who built more than three scoare and ten Cittyes then the King Seleucus who besides many other built three Cittyes called Apa●…iae to the honor of his wife fiue called Laodiceae in memory of his mother and to the honor of himselfe fiue called Seleu●…tae and in all more than thirtie magnificent and goodly Citties CAP. III. Of Force THrough force and ineuitable necessity people are gathered other while together into one place when as some imminent pe●…ill especially of wars or ruine and vnreconerable wast and deuastacion enforceth them to flye vnto it to put in safty their liues or their goods and