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A44752	A survay of the signorie of Venice, of her admired policy, and method of government, &c. with a cohortation to all Christian princes to resent her dangerous condition at present / by James Howell Esq.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3112; ESTC R14157	254,948	257

Alcelico That part of the Ile which beholds the Sun rising lyeth high and is not so fruitfull Among the rest of the Hills wherwith this gentle Iland swells up and down Mount Ida stands This Iland was calld in old time Hecatompolis or Cent oppidum having 100. Citties in her but now She hath not three of any moment and they are towards the North. The chiefest is Candia formerly calld Candida or Candace which hath about 100000. Souls Canea is the second formerly calld Cydona or Gnasos which hath 7000. Soules in her and Rhetino which hath so many more Besides these ther is another calld Scythia a Town of 600. fyres the rest are Villages and Dorps to the nomber of 90. wherin by the last cense that was made ther are 200000. Souls or therabouts But up and down evry where ther are Ruines Marks and Monuments of Antiquity and of other old Townes That part which looks towards the South is infested ever and anon with Northern blasts The secundity of the Iland consists in pasturage and Valleys wherin ther are great nombers of Cattle feeding and on her Plaines ther is good store of Corn growes but not a competent quantity for the whole Iland She abounds with rare Wines famous all the Earth over Ther is great store of Hony had there which is carried most comonly to Alexandria Ther is no place in the World wher ther be such high and goodly Cypresses She hath but small Rivers This Iland sympathiseth in one qualitie with Ireland for She produceth no venemous Beast She abounds with a luscious Wine calld Muskadell wherof the English Marchants have brought som yeers into England above 12000. Butts together with Sugar-Candie Gumms Hony Sugar Olives Dates Apples Oranges Lemmons Cittrons Pomgranatts It is a little wanton luxurious Iland which it seemes hath corrupted the nature of the Inhabitants insomuch that the old Poet Epimenides whose Verse is cited by Saint Paul gives this ill-favourd Character of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which comes very happilie into Latin verbatim Cres semper mendax mala bestia venter obesus The Candiotts are allways lyers ill beasts and slow bellies By reason of the situation of the Iland being seated in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea the Inhabitants came to be excellent Seamen so that it grew to be a proverb when one wold thwart an improbable thing he would say you will make me beleeve as soon that Cretensis nescit pelagus the Candiot is no Seaman Though ther be no venemous Cretures in this Iland yet they say Womens teeth are more poysonous there than elswhere for if a woman bite a man any thing deep he will never recover Besides they write that in this I le an herb grows calld Allimos which if one chaw in his mouth he shall feel no hunger The Republic came to this Iland by her money for She bought her of the Prince of Monferrat Anno 1194. But of late yeers though the Spaniard offerd as much for the Haven of Sada it self as She payed at first for the whole Iland the Republic would not listen unto the motion Of the Cittie of Venice Her-self WE are com now to the Mayden Cittie her-self to that Miracle of Nature to Neptune's Minion to that Impossibile nel impossibile for it was the Character which that famous Mariano Sozzino gave of Her when at his return from Venice to Rome he gave an account of his Embassie to the Pope when he went back dalle scale del Senato alla sede Apostolica from the Scales of Venice to the Seat of Rome for those are the stiles of distinction betwixt both the Courts as Constantinople is calld the Port the King of Spains Court the Palace the Emperours la Corte the Court simply and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or per Eminentiam This Wonder of Citties is seated in the bosom or betwixt the armes and aestuaries of the Adriatic Sea who spreading himself gently along towards the Continent of Italie leaves som green tuffs or tombs of Earth uncoverd upon which the Cittie is built and as it were chaind together by I know not how many hundred Bridges Insomuch that Venice is no other than a Convention of little Ilands peeping up above the Waters which may be an excuse for her salacity having such a salt tayle steepd and brind perpetually in the Sea In so much that it may be well thought that the Goddesse Venus and the Cittie of Venice had one kind of procreation being both engendred of the Sea It is allso very likely Aphrodite that wanton Lady had her Original out of that white Spume which Neptune casts upon those little gentle Ilands wheron Venice makes her bed The ocasion that made these watry Iles a mansion for men was when that Northern deluge of Goths Vandalls Hunns and Longobards did overflow all Italie which made peeple of all sorts fly to these Lakes to avoyd the Land torrent that was like to swallow them up and finding the air to be gentle and fitt for habitation and propagation and the clime more temperat than in other places though sited under the same latitud by reason of the fresh breezes and eventilations of the circumjacent Sea which makes it lyeope to all winds and evry point of the Compas They pitchd their Tents upon these Iles and associated them by conjoyning Bridges Inviting all peeple to com and cohabitt with them In so much that som derive the name of Venetiae from the word Venite Venite or Veni etiam com again by which they invited them of the Continent to dwell with them and fix their Commoration there They are therfore much deceavd who think that the Gentry of Venice are of a baser allay than others taking them to be no other than Fishermen at first No they were of the best rank of peeple that to avoyd the inundation of those barbarous peeple fledd thither from Rome Aquileia Padua Heraclea and all other places for a secure rendevous being frindly invited therunto which makes the Cittie of Venice to be the most hospitable place upon Earth to this day for all Commers Now the first Venetians had not their beginning from Italie but were issued of an ancient race of peeple in Asia calld the Hevetians of Paphlagonia who after the destruction of Troy came under the conduct of Antenor to Italie whose Tomb is to be seen standing in Padua to this day Now the Original of the Cittie of Venice according to the opinion of the most judicious Historians hapned in this manner As the fear of the Hunnes had possessd most of the Inhabitants of Italie and that the Venetians as formost in the danger were more apprehensive therof than any other therfore for their owne incolumity and freedom and being neerest than any other they retird from about those plesant places which borderd upon the Adriatic Sea into these small Iles or Lakes whither the Enemy could not pursue them And those who were the first Leaders were rich

lost then above sixty Gallies yet she appear'd again shortly after and about the streight of Gallipoli she lost again sixteen Gallies and the Genoway a little after took Canea in Candy but a peace was at last mediated ' twizt Venice and Genoa Upon these ill successes abroad ther were some treasons detected in Venice but quickly suppress'd Padoa also stir'd but to little purpose The next yeer notwithstanding all the late losses the Republic sends a considerable Fleet against Paleologus the Greek Emperour whereof Iustiniano was Generall because he refus'd to pay the Republic a great sum of money which he ow'd her this Fleet sailing into the Pontik Sea quickly brought Paleologus to reason to repay the mony This victroy did much heighten the spirits of Venice which had somwhat languish'd for her great losses in the Ligustic war with Genoa she also made her self Mistress of Ferrara a little after which being a City fewdetary to the Church of Rome the Pope excomunicated Venice interdicting her from the use of the Sacraments which drew a great deal of odium upon her so that she thought it high time to restore Ferrara to the Popes Legat yet she wold pause a little further upon 't About this time the famous conspiracy of Ba●…amonti Tepulo was suppress'd who was kill'd by a Venetian woman out of a zeal to her Countrey who had an honorable Pension ever after during life MARINI GEORGO was now created the fiftieth Duke of Venice in his time Zara revolted the sixth time from the Republic but was reduc'd GIOVANNI SOVRANZA succeeded GEORGIO who had govern'd but ten moneths the City which had bin a good while anathematiz'd sent Francisco Dandulo to the Pope this Nobleman being admitted to the presence of Clement who perfectly hated Venice because of Ferrara by a wonderfull example of piety to his Countrey and love to Religion continued a long time on the ground before the Popes Table with an iron chain about his head like a dog untill the Excommunication was taken off which was don upon those acts of penitence Hereupon a little after Venice had a notable successe against Genoa in the Pontik Sea where above thirty bottomes were sunk and taken by JUSTINIANO the Generall FRANCISCO DANDULO who had bin Ambassador with the Pope and by that penance formerly spoken of had got the Excommunication taken off was elected the next Duke the Polani and the Valesians who had bin a long time subject to the Patriark of Aquileia did voluntarily yeeld themselfs under the protection of Venice About this time the Republic did divers exploits upon the Coasts of Syria against the Turks for securing of Navigation upon those Coasts she likewise did many feats in Lombardy her Army took Padoua and Bergamo Brescia also fell under her protection BARTILMEO GRADONICO was chosen next and a little after ther arose one night a most furious Tempest which caus'd such an inundation three foot deep above the streets of the City In this Dukes time ther came Ambassadors from England craving aid against Philip the French King whom the Genoways who were mortall enemies to Venice did favour but nothing could be obtain'd and this was the first time that ther was any acquaintance 'twixt England and Venice which was in the yeer 1332 ther was another revolt in Candie suppress'd ANDREA DANDULO came next to the principality a man of extraordinary parts of learning as well as valour for he compil'd the Venetian story in two styles The Republic sent a Fleet against the Turk which took Smyrna again There was an Ambassadour sent by the Senat to the King of Babylon concerning the Venetians free Trade into Egypt which though stood upon by the Pope in regard they were Infidells was setled Zara had rebell'd now the seventh time but was reduced and Lewis King of Hungarie repuls'd There happen'd a fearfull earthquake in Venice about this time which overturn'd divers steeples and palaces This Earthquake usher'd in a fearfull contagion which brought the City to a pitifull desolation for the time the said earthquake lasting fifteen dayes by intermissions This terible earthquake gives me occasion to desire leave of the Reader to step a little aside out of the great Road of this History and make a short excursion to give a touch of the causes of these dreadfull effects of nature of these tremblings and shiverings of the earth or rather Aguish shaking fits wherunto we find her body is as subject as the body of men or lions who are observed to have their monthly paroxismes The Babylonian Philosophers think the cause of these impetuous motions hapneth by the force of som Planet meeting with the Sun in the region of the earth others hold it to be a vapour a long time engendring in som concavities of the earth and restrain'd from sal●…ying forth into the air others affirme that 't is a wind pe●…'d up in the entrails of the earth Pliny sayeth that the earth never quaketh but when the Sea is very calm and the air so still and clear as the birds can hardly bear themselves up and that the winds are then shut up in the bowells of the earth their improper station He addeth further that an earthquake is nothing else but as thunder in the air or an overture and crevice in the earth or as lightning breaking forth violently and making irruptions from the midst of the clouds the wind inclos'd therin and strugling to comforth by force The Stoicks speak of divers sorts of Earthquakes that cause the gapings of the earth the swellings of the water and boiling of the same a horrid confus'd sound commonly precedeth and accompanieth this quaking somtimes like to the roaring of a Bull somtimes to the lamentable cry of som humane creature or like the clattring of armor according to the quality of the matter which is inclos'd or according to the form of the cave and hole or Spelunca through which it passeth which resounds in vaulty and hollow places It waxeth hot in sharp and dry places and causeth defluxions in those that are mo●…st and humid Now amongst all Earthquakes the agitation of the waters is most dangerous for lightning is not so hurtfull nor the shaking of buildings or when the earth is puff'd up or falleth down by an interchangeable motion because the one keeps back the other The safest buildings are those upon vaults the corners of walls and on bridges leaning one against another beside brick buildings are lesse dangerous in such accidents your skilfull Navigators can foretell these earthquakes at such time as they perceive the waves to swell on a sudden without a wind and likewise those on land may likewise foretell them when they behold birds in a maze to stay their flight or when waters in wells are troubled more than ordinary having a bad unsavoury smell all these are presages of such hideous motions Pherecydes the Syrian drawing water out of a well foretold an Earthquake