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A89931	The scarlet gown or the history of all the present cardinals of Rome. Wherein is set forth the life, birth, interest, possibility, rich offices, dignities, and charges of every cardinal now living. Also their merits, vertures, and vices· Together with the cariage of the Pope and court of Rome. Written originally in Italian, and translated into English by H.C. Gent.; Giusta statera de'porporati. English.	N. N.; Cogan, Henry.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1653 (1653)	Wing N53; Thomason E1433_1; ESTC R202993	62,278	177

the Palace where he dwelt to cut him and all his Family in pieces but being forewarned thereof he fled with all speed in a Gondola towards Rome where a few monthes after he was by Gregory the fifteenth with the assent of the Catholique King promoted to the Scarlet Gown and after some yeares he was by his Majestie made Governor of Flanders and the Low-Countries where he carried himself with the little satisfaction of those people by seeking the ruine of that Country for the inriching of himself but the Catholique King being advertised of his ill Government deprived him of that Charge and disgraced him in such manner as he was also bereft of all the revenues and profits which he enjoyed in the Kingdomes of Spain by reason wherof he was so exhausted that he ran mightily in debt After the assumption of Innocent the tenth followed the death of Cardinal Crescentio whereby the Bishoprick of Palestina became void which by way of senioritie appertained unto the said Cardinal della Queva who therefore was desired by Cardianl Carlo de Medici to resign it unto him to the end that remaining in that City which bore the Title of Don Tadeos Principalitie he might crosse and vex the Barberini and this he promised Don Carlo to doe but never performed it for the Barberini prevented this disorder by giving Queva I know not how many thousands of crownes not to resigne the Bishoprick so that he was not so good as his word to the said Prince Cardinal for which he was very much blamed of every one He is a very learned man and a great wit He is somewhat esteemed in the Colledge but little respected in the Court having no other train but his own Caroches as one that is not capable of the Papacie because he is a Spaniard and the very Spaniards themselves too make no great reckoning of him holding him as inconfident although he strives with all ardor to shew himself more affectionate and diligent in the Kings service and affairs then any other person whatsoever He is of a good and exemplary life and for his knowledge and doctrine is beloved of his holiness LVI Marcello Lanti MArcello Lanti a Roman Nobleman Deane of the sacred Colledge and Nephew to Paul the fifth being the Son of a Sister of his He was promoted to the Scarlet Gown by the said Paul is a very old man of an holy conversation of a most innocent life and marvellous charitable He is of kinne to the greatest part of the Roman Nobilitie and also to the Great Duke of Toscan He hath enjoyed the Scarlet Gown forty years and yet is for all that ignorant testy obstinate He was not nominated in the last Conclave for that the Barberini durst not conside in him by reason of his affinitie with the Borghesi and Great Duke as aforesaid he is head of the Congregation of the Bishops and Regulars and if he live to a vacant Sea he may chance get into Peters Chair He makes open profession of his devotion to the house of Austria although the Marquesse his brother lately dead was alwaies French This Cardinal would not be amisse for the good and Government of the Church for he is a peaceable man is excedingly well esteemed of by the Sacred Colledge and Roman Court is also greatly respected by the Princes and hath not any Cardinal his Enemy wherefore he may very well attain to the Papacie as is much desired of all he should but whilst the Barberini live he will hardly come to be Pope for they have been sufficiently punished by the election of Innocent the tenth Pamphilio LVII Carlo de Medeci CArlo de Medeci a Florentine Uncle to the Great Duke of Toscan and brother to the late Queen Mother of France He was promoted to the Scarlet Gown as a great Prince and therefore he is in high esteem and Authoritie with the sacred Colledge and all the Court He was the principal Author of the election of Innocent the tenth who out of his Obligation and Gratitude beares a great affection to this Prince He was and is an Enemy to all the house of the Barberini for divers occasions but the chiefest was their War with the Great Duke He is a Lord of a clear understanding beloved of every one courteous splendid and delighting in pleasures and recreations He is mightily affected to the Family of Austria so that he could be contented as one may say to have even his skinne plucked over his eares for the King of Spain He is of a great age but appeares not to be so by reason of the corpulencie of his body No more is or ought to be said of this Cardinal being a great Prince and as such a one I leave him LVIII Baldassare di Sandoval BAldassare di Sandoval a Spaniard and Bishop of Sivil He was promoted to the Scarlet Gown at the instance of the Catholique King by whom he was afterwards sent Ambassador to Rome in which Charge he carried him self with the satisfaction and commendation of both the parties Upon the end of that imployment he returned into Spain where being kept from receiving audience of the King by the Count-Duke he one day bastinadoed him with the same battoon wherewith he sustained himself being lame of the goute in revenge whereof the Count-Duke caused the horses of his Caroach to be cudgeld whilst he was in it Sandoval was he that in his first Audience discovered the misdemeanors of the said Count-Duke and also the losse of the Kingdom of Portugal of Catalogna and other States whereof the King perceiving the truth turned him out of his favor and reduced him to those termes that he was fain to live exiled from the Court in a Country house of his This Cardinal is very highly esteemed and exceedingly beloved of the King is very old of a good conversation bountiful of great authority and well liked of every one He is a great friend of Innocent the tenths having held a strickt correspondence with him at such time as he was Nuntioia Naples and in Spain which he continued with him whilst he was at Rome He was not present in the last Conclave by reason of the lenggth of the voyage and his great age which is such as he can stand no man in any stead hereafter because he will never be able to come into the Conclave again LIX Agostino Spinola AGostino Spinola a Genouese of the old Nobilitie and brother to the late Marquesse Spinola that most famous Captain He was promoted to the Scarlet Gown by Paul the fifth at the instance of the Catholique King He was Archbishop of Compostella from which he is removed and hath the Archbishoprick of Toledo in lieu thereof conferred on him with a pension of ten thousand Crownes a year He is exceedingly beloved of his Catholique Majestie for his brothers merits is of kinne to the greatest part of the Genouese Nobilitie is very rich and so old that in regard of the

Signoria of Venice which highly account of him He is a Lord endowed with many excellent qualities is very courteous in salutes and entertainments loves not light conversations is a man studious and curious but his curiositie ceases when matters of interest are handled All the time that he was at Court he was never seen to give any alms for which he was blamed but it may well be that he delights to give in secret that he may not appear vain-glorious This Cardinal cannot be Pope in hast for two reasons the one is because he is a Venetian and the other is because he is too young He is not devoted to any Crown but onely to his Republique and his vote will be alwaies at the disposing thereof XXXI Pietro Donato Cesis PIetro Donato Cesis of a most Noble Roman Family he was Clerk of the Chamber was also made Treasuror General of the holy Church and afterwards promoted by Urban to the Scarlet Gown and sent by him Legate to Perugia at such time as the War was made against the Princes of Italy The Apostolicall Chamber whilst he had the administration of it was well served and not oppressed as it had been by so many others which robbed it In this said Legateship he caried himself very wisely but with rigor He is a man of a good and sincere life and may be one day Pope being a Roman He hath no hair on his Chin so that he seems to be an Eunuch and comming to be greyhaired he would look like one of those antient Popes and not without cause was there a Pasquil made of him during the Vacancie of the Sea which said Cesis is made Pope verily he will be a Pope de Malangonate He would be no bad Pope for that he is a lover of the poor and a man of conscience He is learned and naturally merry in conversation He was Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Angelo à Sazanella in the Kingdom of Naples He is much devoted to the house of Austria and in particular to the Catholique King making open profession thereof and having his Majesties armes set over his gate and is loved and esteemed of that Crown as also of the great Duke He is not much reckoned of in the Court but is reverenced in the sacred Colledge He hath no enemies except it be the Barberini who fear him for the abuses they have done to the Duke of Cesis besides other disgusts received in his own person from them There hath some distast also past between him and the Cardinal Theodoli in a Chappel held by the Cardinals for the love of Lerida His Government would be good for the holy Church for some of his confidents have reported that if ever he should attain to that degree he would with all his interest make a league against the Turke and would also if God gave himlise lay up as many millions of Gold in the Castle as Sixtus quintus did for the benefit of the Apostolick Sea His kindred are the Orsini the Duke Acquasparta the Duke of Cesis the Soovelli and others XXXV Francesco Maria Machiavelli FFrancesco Maria Machiavelli a Noble man of Florence and Cousin to the Barberini He was a first but a simple Prelate then was made Bishop of Ferrara and afterwards promoted to the Scarlet Gowne for divers reasons but the most intimate of them was because he was a kinne to the Barberini by the mothers side another was for that the Cavalier Matthia Machiavelli who was Captain of the light-horse of his Holinesse guard and had done many services for the Pope in the past Warre against the Princes of Italy was an earnest suitor to him for it This Cardinal is very affable in his demeanor of a good disposition curteous and a friend to the poor but yet spends not much upon them of his own purse He is not disliked of by the great Duke of Toscan though he be the Barberinies Cousin because he hath never distasted that Prince but hath held good correspondence with him by all manner of services if not openly at leastwise secretly for otherwise he had lost the Popes favor He is neither Spanish nor French feigning himself neutral but in effect is wholly Austrian and in the past Conclave he alwaies sided with Albernoz against Francesco He was not displeased to see the Barberini persecuted by the Pope knowing their misdeanors deserved that and worse He is well regarded by his holinesse and is now resident at his Church of Ferara He is a man of an indifferent understanding hath no considerable enemies nor any contrarietie but such as he may have by reason of his affinitie with the Barberini he is of a goodly presence and young he maintaines himself in his Bishoprick with much decorum and gravitie carrying himself with the great satisfaction of the people there by whom he is loved reverenced and served XXXVI Verginio Orsini Verginio Orsini a Roman Nephew to the Duke of Bracciano and the brother of the Duke of Santo Gemini he was onely an Abbot and thought to have cast off his Clerical habit and have maried the Princess Lodovisia but Urban envying this match and whilst it was a making up promoted him in a Consistory to the Scarlet Gown Others say that the Duke of Bracciano finding his house without the red Hat courted the Cardinal Antonio a long time with donatives and exorbitant expences and in the end with a great summe of Gold drew him to get his Holiness to promote him howsoever the Scarlet Gown was due to him as a deserving Lord and of a most antient family which as one may say hath had as many Cardinals as daies and the Roman Church is exceedingly obliged to this house their ancestors having fought for it and kept the Barbarians far enough from Rome maintaining the Apostolical Sea in all securitie This House as also that of the Colonnesi alone have a place with the Ambassadors in the Chappel but in regard of precedencie they never meet there both together This Cardinal according to his authority is not very rich no more than his ancestors were who warred a long time with the Colonnesi in such sort as they put not only the neighbouring Princes in fear but also the very Popes themselves who were fain to observe them but they have now reduced them to that passe as the Orsini may with just reason say sastiditum in ques opprebrium gentibus abjectio plebis howsoever this Lord is bountiful as farre forth as his small abilitie will extend carrying along with him the liberalitie of his race He was much beloved and regarded of Innocent the tenth because at such time as the assuming of Cardinal Pamphilio to the Papacie was in agitation he being not entred into the Conclave by reason of some indisposition of his when there was need of his vote he presently entred and gave it for him the said Orsini too were great furtherers of the match between his holinesse Neece and the Prince

Raggi adhered to the adverse party and therefore began to demonstrate unto his honourable Lordship many lively reasons for the maintainance thereof alledging divers Authors and in particular said that the Codice in such a Law made good his Plea My Lord Raggi in regard that which the Proctor affirmed was prejudicial to the party he favoured conceived according to his ignorant opinion that the Codice was some witness to be produced in judgement and therefore said unto the Proctor these precise words I will throughly chastise this Codice and then demanded of him where he was because he would have him apprehended and sent to the Gallyes The Proctor answered that he was to be found in his Clients Advocates house whereupon he commanded a Notary to send some Officers along with the Proctor to the said Advocates house to apprehend the Codice which being accordingly performed the Codice was delivered unto them who thought it was some prohibited book and that therefore they were ordered to seize upon it so they carried it to my Lord Raggi who was then Auditor of the Chamber and the Proctor being arrived there with them opened the book and found out the Law by him before cited which Raggi seeing remained like a statue quite besides himself Now the sport and pastime that was made of this matter throughout the City came to the eares of Urban the eighth who was ready to burst with laughing at it Another time it hapned that another Proctor came before him to defend another cause at his house which was just opposite to the Capranick College where were divers mad wags who as often as they saw him look out of his window cryed out Bragone bragone that is great breeches or slops so that after he was made Cardinal the common people ever after called him as they had done Bragone Now whilst the Proctor was attentive in pleading of his cause he answered the Scholars of the said Colledge saying the Galleys the Galleys The Proctor beleeving that he spake in that manner against his Client answered My honorable Lord the poor man my Client deserves not the punishment of the Galleys but in the mean time Raggi seeing those too insolent Scholars continue on still mocking him cryed out with a loud voice Not the Galleys but the Gallows which the Proctor hearing said as it were vext My Lord since you will needs send to the Galleys and hang one that no waies deserves it you may doe as you please and so went away from him Before he was made Cardinal he caused a Cardinals garments to be made for him and putting them on he walked up and down his house and asked of his friends how they became him and whether he did not walk gravely enough in them And out of the great desire he had to be a Cardinal he went one day to the Pope who loved him for his harmless simplicity and after he had kissed his foot he said Holy Father make me a Cardinal and so give satisfaction to the poor old man my Father After he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown he went to thank his Holyness and imbracing him said I cannot chuse but hugge and kiss you for joy that you have made me a Cardinal Pope Urban the eighth delighted so much in this man as can hardly be exprest the truth whereof doth appear by the effects for he not onely made him a Cardinal but also at his instance gave the Treasurorship General to Lorenzo Raggi his Nephew unto whom for a closing up of all other his extravagancies he said openly Nephew if you will arrive unto that which I have attained unto you must labour to carry your self and do as I have done Whereat not onely all the standers by but even his Nephew himself could not forbear laughing Not long after the Treasurorship was conferred on Lorenzo the Cardinal his Uncle died and made his Brother the Marquesse Raggi his heir for which cause there hath been a good while some distast between the two brothers the Treasuror and the Marquess The said Lorenzo Raggi was in the time of Urban Superintendant of the Impositions laid upon the State Ecclesiastical during which charge of his there fell out many disorders for in the Barbarini War the Souldiers could not have their pay so that two dayes after Innocent the tenth was assumed to the Papacy those Souldiers that were appointed for the guard of the Conclave began to mutinie because his Holyness having ordained that every one of them should have four moneths pay and so be dismissed Raggi would give them but two wherewith they being very much incensed fell furiously to assaulting the house he was in which they sacked and plundered all the money they found in it chasing the said Raggi into Don Tadeos Palace where he shut up himself for fear of his life but the souldiers besieged him in it and were bringing two peeces of Cannon to beat down the gates had not Innocent the tenth newly elected with his prudence given remedy thereunto Howsoever his Holyness was much offended with him for this business and every body thought that he would have deprived him of his charge and made him resign up his Treasurors place but afterwards at the intercession of divers persons the matter went no further and in the end he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown in the secret consistory of the fourth of October 1647. This Cardinal is young about some five and twenty years of age and of a good conversation but ambitious and covetous He is not over-learned nor ignorant but holds the mean betwixt both XIV Francesco Maidalchini FRancesco Maidalchini a native of the City of Viterbo and Nephew by her Brother to the Lady Olimpia the Sister-in-law of Pope Innocent the tenth This Cardinal was a youth void of all manner of conversation not being able to carry himself with any civility and therefore he was kept in a Colledge to learn not onely humane letters but also good manners Suddenly upon the making of Innocent the tenth Pope the Lady Donna Olimpia his Aunt procured an Abbots place for him with which he lived reasonably well but altogether unknown to the world Afterwards the Lord Camillo Pamphilio Sonne to the same Lady Donna Olimpia and the Popes onely Nephew being promoted to the Scarlet Gown it hapned that by the death of the Prince Don Paolo Borghese the Lady Donna Olimpia Aldobrandina Princess of Rossana his Wife became a Widdow with whose beauty and riches the Cardinal Pamphilio was so taken as he abandoned the Scarlet Gown and married her But the poor Prince Don Camillo was much troubled thereupon for that by the Papal Buls it was ordered that the Cardinals which renounced their Hats and took Wives should not enter into the Roman Court for a certain prefixed time of some moneths Howbeit he obeyed in hope he should obtain of the Pope his Uncle a dispensation for his return unto the Court But Donna Olimpia his Mother considering that

snatched it out of his hand saying you shall serve me no longer and turning him about to another Gentleman of his there present he gave it to him and said you shall serve me hereafter for the Master of my Chamber which Filomarini seeing and hearing remained as one dead to find himself so disgraced by his Lord saying in his mind Is this my Guerdon for so many yeares service which I have done to the Pope and his Nephews cursed be he which trusteth in the deceitful hopes of the World Now the monday morning came appointed for the sitting of the Consistory where preparation being made for things necessary thereunto Filomarini also began to go about as he used to doe at other times but Barberino with bitter words commanded him to get him from that place as he did retiring to his lodging very melancholick and exceedingly cast down The time of the Consistory being come which lasted six whole hours together his holinesse in the beginning propounded the Archbishoprick of Naples for Filomarim and afterward together with many others promoted him to the Scarlet Gown The Consistory being finished there was heard according to the usual custome crying out long live Cardinal such a one Filomarini who knew nothing of that which had past desirous to hear somewhat went out of his lodging and presently met with some Prelates and Cardinals which did all reverence unto him saying your Eminencies servant my Lord Cardinal Ascanio he thinking he was mocked answered each of them I had as lieve be flouted by you as another but at length Barberino himself was forced to goe to him and give him the Title of Eminencie Filomarini hearing what he and the rest had said unto him began to come to himself again and call to mind the Popes words when he told him that it was not a morsel for him and that he had destinated it to a Cardinal This Lord got the Hat with the sweat of four and twenty years service and in the last Conclave he met sufficiently with Barberino when as he told him that his obligation for the Scarlet Gown was due to the good memory of Urban and that he being dead his obligation was also extinct knowing well that he had alwaies opposed him in his attaining to the Hat and that therefore he was obliged to give his vote for the Catholick King his Lord. Urban tooke the greater affection to this Cardinal because when he was grievously sick in his last infirmity he had demanded of his Physitian in what state of health his holinesse was and being put in good hope thereof by him he gave him a chain of Gold which the Physitian shewed to the Pope who thereby perceiving the love he bore to him promoted him afterwards to the Scarlet Gown In the time of the Warre of the Barberini he sent twelve thousand Piastre to the relief of the Papal Army for which he got no litle credit with the Pope and sacred Colledge He is a very intelligent man and given to Astrologie but is exceeding proud so that in regard thereof there is no Cavalier how mean soever that Courts and visits him And I well remember that the Countesse of Saponara at such time as he was Master of the Chamber to Barberino sent him certain letters superscribed with the Title of my Lord and because they had not the Title of most illustrious he returned them back saying that they were not sent unto him and as much he did when as he was illustrious saying that they were not directed to him in summe no man knowes how to negotiate with him and therefore every one abstaines from writing unto him XXXIX Gieronimo Verospi GIeronimo Verospi a Roman Gentleman He was Auditor della Rota as in like manner his Uncle had been who during the time of his being so faling at odds with the great Duke of Toscan madly undertook w th certain Musketiers to dispute the difference that was between them about some waters without regarding the danger of his life that hung over his head after which returning to Rome he was by Urban thought worthy of the Scarlet Gown and having obtained it he lived but a while for some disgusts that were given him broke his heart and so he dyed Urban after the death of that Cardinal seeing his house as it were ruined undone and bearing a great affection to it promoted the present Geronimo Verospi his Nephew to the Hat he conferred also upon him the Church of Osimo nella Marca and further confirmed the Auditors place della Rota on his brother besides many other benefits and graces Francesco and Antonio both made great suite to have the Scarlet Gown as well for Verospi as for Gabrieli because they were but small friends to Pamphilio and as such they shewed themselves obstinate against his election and therefore after his assumption the said Verospi hath alwaies absented himself from the Court to avoid those disgusts which might happen unto him residing continually at his Bishoprick He is a poor Cardinal and hath many brothers who all live together with their Mother except it be one which hath ever kept himself apart from the rest and after the death of Urban he went to serve Cardinal Antonio in the place of Master of his Chamber before he left the Court of Rome to go into France This Cardinal is learned but the Auditor della Rota his brother is more intelligent his vote will be altogether for the Barberini and his inclination is more to France then to Spain although to maintain himself in the common pretensions he seemes in apparance to be neutral If this same Lord should be Pope he would spoil the seat of Peter to accommodate his bretheren which are many XL. Gaspare Matthei GAspare Matthei brother to the Duke of that surname He was a Prelate of a most Noble and antient Roman family and was sent by Vrban the eighth Nuneio to the Emperors Majestie in which Charge he carried himself with much satisfaction of both parts He was promoted to the Scarlet Gown as other Nuncioes were Upon his return to Rome he was presently set upon by Sachetti for the repayment of six thousand crownes lent him at his going into Germany causing him to be cited for it in regard whereof he is no great friend to him but greatly opposed his fortune in the Conclave and behaved himself with much vigilancie care affection towards the House of Austria in favor of the Cardinal Phamphilio And he it was also that made a great coil saying they would have no forreign but Roman Popes and in the same Conclave he defended the reputation of the house of Austria threatning the Cardinal Rapacioli who had spoken amisse against the Austrians he shewed himself also averse to the Cardinal Fiorenzola for the same cause This Cardinal is poor intelligent opinnative haughty proud full of resentment and lookes more like a souldier then a Cardinal He speakes freely against any one whatsoever he be

himself into the Prelacie and having exercised many Charges and Governments he was at last sent Nuntio into Spain where he caried himself very worthyly and to the great contentment of that Majestie insomuch that the Pope finding him to be very intelligent and deserving promoted him to the Scarlet Gown He is a learned man and expert in all matters of Negotiation He hath gotten much credit with the Crown of Spain is greatly approved of in the Court and is much esteemed by the sacred Colledg but farre more by Innocent the tenth so that if he live he may be Pope He is of a sweet coversation excellently qualified of a good behaviour friendly and thankful for all benefits received He arrived at Rome from Spain when as the Cardinals were in a manner all shut up in the Conclave and brought along with him divers pacquets of letters written from his Catholique Majestie to all the sacred Colledge in favor of the Cardinal Pamphilio insomuch that it was he who gave the first start to his greatness which benefit together with the good-will Pamphilio bore him before caused him presently upon his assumption to place him near about him he gave him lodgings also in the Pontifical Palace and made him his chief Counsellor of State so that the whole Government of the Papacie is in a manner resting upon his shoulders He is not very rich but with the Pensions and Benefices bestowed on him by the Pope he is thought to be exceeding well accommodatep He leades a very retired life and is of a good disposition for I remember that in the time of his Prelacie he told me one day how he never fell out with nor misused any servant of his house to the end they should not have occasion to murmure at him or his birth and lose the respect which they owed unto him a matter verily worthy of commendation He is a trusty friend of the great Duke of Toscans but he is not confided in by the Barberini for private interests and because as it is thought he was one of them that Counselled the Pope to prosecute them in that sort as he did He received the Hat from the hands of Innocent the tenth together with the Cardinal of Este because they were not present in the Court at such time as Urban was living XLV Mattheo Theodoli MAttheo Theodoli a Roman descended of a Noble family in the City of Forlin Popoli nella Romagna He was a poor Prelate that could hardly live but at the instance of Antonio he was by Urban the eighth made Auditor of the Chamber and not having mony enough to pay for it the said Cardinal Antonio lenthim some out of the affection he bore to his house He exercised the said Auditorship but a short while so that he could hardly recover any part of his disbursment because he was promoted to the Scarlet Gown out of a necessity of selling that Office to make mony of for the supplying of the Warre against the Princes of Italy by which meanes he became exceeding poor and therefore he resolved to abandon the Spanish and betake himself to the French party upon promise from that Crown of mony and pensions This Cardinal is of little esteem in the sacred Colledge insomuch that when he meant to give himself to the French he sent a Gentleman of his to excuse him to Cardinal Montalto saying that his Eminencie was to pardon him for leaving the Austrian and cleaving to the French devotion in regard he was reduced thereunto by meer necessitie whereunto the said Montalto made answer that his Catholique Majestie in losing him lost nothing and the King of France by geting him got litle Not long after insued the Conclave where it is said he carried himself with little fidelity to the most Christian King for being promised I know not what summe of mony together with the Bishoprick of Imola he falsifyed the Marquess of Sansciamont the Ambassador of France his hand to certain letters in the behalf of the Cardinal Pamphilio for which he was turned out of his Majesties favor and likewise deprived of all the benefits and revenues which he enjoyed in that Kingdom whereupon not being able to live as a Cardinal he very much dejected absented himself from the Court and went to the Marquesse santo Vito his brother where out of rage and discontent he became almost frantick and the Pope having granted him the Church of Imola took it away again from him and conferred it on my Lord Cocino Romano who was Bishop of Tursi After he had remained some time with his said brother he returned to the Court where unknown he lived miserably but at length having received some letters from France it is said that he spake thus publiquely to the Pope Blessed Father the most Christian King hath vouochsased to receive me a new into his pristine favor as much as to say in de spight of all my il willers and of such as would not have it so There can no certaine judgement be made what this Cardinals vote will be for he turnes like a leafe with every breath of winde Both the King of France and the Pope make but little account of him and yet they seem to look upon him with a good eye XLVI Fausto Poli. FAusto Poli born in Cassia a place upon the confines of Abbuozzo within the Diocesse of Norcia He was a poor man at first and served Urban the eighth at such time as he was Bishop of Spoletto and had the good hap to continue in his service untill his exaltation to the Papacie and then putting himself into the Prelacie he was after some time as a confident servant of his promoted by Urban to the Scarlet Gown together with many other servants of the Apostolical Palace Poli hath alwaies been much esteemed of and loved by all the Barberini for his serviceableness to them in the managing of their household affaires for which he is onely good being otherwise altogether ignorant and without any known vertue in him The Barberini would not exclude him from the Papacie in regard he is their creature but he is not desired of the Austrians and then too there are other persons of qualitie and age in the sacred Colledge which farre excel him in all requisites appertaining to a Pope and therefore he may set his heart at rest and never think of it This Cardinal is so much for the Barberini that he will alwaies be at their disposing and consequently will ever side with the French He is rich and in case he should be Pope the Bishop of Amelia his Nephew will be he that shall reigne who is not very intelligent is of litle esteeme in the sacred Colledge and lesse regarded in the Court. XLVII Lellio Falconieri LEllio Falconieri was also an assidual servant to Urban the eighth but because he was too talkative the Barberini did not regard him neither did the Pope in like manner much care for him He was a