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A85757	The history of the sacred and Royal Majesty of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland with the reasons of her late conversion to the Roman Catholique religion. As also a relation of the severall entertainments given her by divers princes in her journey to Rome, with her magnificent reception into that city.; Historia della sacra real maestà di Christina Alessandra, regina di Svetia. English	Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo, Conte, 1606-1678.; Burbury, John.	1658 (1658)	Wing G2171; Thomason E1851_1; ESTC R23369	167,308	510

appeared the Majesty and decorum of the Court of Rome The light horsemen of his Holinesses guard arm'd with breast-plates and having red Casocks trimed with gold twist and lances in their hands with colours at the points shut up the Cavalcata Behind the horses which shut up this royall Cavalcata came the travailing Coaches and the Coaches of the City of all the great Persons which were all noble sumptuous and enricht with rare furniture and most sprightly Coursers After her Majesties Coaches came three of Prince Panfilio which were very splendid and one among the rest as noble and Majestique as could be devised it being all of gold and embroydery with admirable metals and the armes of his family Two likewise appeared of the Prince of Pallestrina one of which was rich and stately of black velvet with golden fringe and lin'd with cloth of gold the Carvings Figures Nayle-work Iron-work and furniture of the horses being gilt most splendid and magnificent The gate of the people by order of the Pope was finisht before by Cavalier Bernino on the ancient design of Michael Angelo Bonaruota with some embellishments of the said Cavaliers own invention and an Inscription representing the happy and fortunate entrance of this Queen into Rome on the top of the gate aforesaid they saw appear in a great embossed work six Mountains and a starre on the top the Armes of his Holiness At all the ends of the streets of the course St. Mark Giesu della Valle Mount Jordan di Banchi the bridg of St. Angelo and the Suburbe through which the Cavalcata was to pass stood Souldiers in rankes and all Coaches were forbidden to stirre up and down and stand in those streets after 18. houres All the windows were hung with rich tapestries and full of Ladies and Cavaliers all the way being covered with a very great number of people At her Majesties entrance through the gate of the People she was welcomed by many Mortar-peices and Canon brought into the Garden of that convent the roaring of which was answered by all with an Echo of Prayses and blessings As she passed through so many peopl who were more desirous to see her than curious to contemplate the pompe of the Cavalcata she saluted every one with so cheerfull a countenance and a carriage so tempered with decorum and courtesy that she made it appear she could not stirre a foot but 't was measured with the compass of her vertue She often turn'd her self to speak with their Eminences Orsini and Costaguti and all her words breathed a gravity and sweetness As her Majesty pass'd the bridge of St. Angelo Count Jerome Gabrielli the Vice Governour of the Castle stood at the door of the grate of the fortress at the head of a hundred Musquetiers in array who took up all the drawbridges to the gate of the Castle Captain Decius Laurentini arm'd with a corselet and pike standing a little behind him towards the left hand and on the right Captain Rutilius Ferraccioli the Adjutant of the Fortress The Souldiers of the Garrison displayed their colours from the walls and as the Queen passed along she heard first from the Castle a pleasing harmony of fifes and Sackbuts which was afterwards seconded by a volley of Muskets accompanied immediately by the roaring of a hundred and fifty Mortar-peices and sixty peices of artillery On the top of the great Tower hung the arms of his Holiness and the Queen where likewise were prepared many squibs and great store of fireworkes which in the beginning of the night had admirable success the Mottos and Arms being handsomly seen and illuminated On the Piazza of St. Peter on this and that side of the Guglia two battalions of a thousand foot apeice stood in rankes with two other squadrons of cuirassiers 'Ore against the same Piazza near the fountain was squadroned the free Company of Dutchmen of Count Vidman aforesaid in the midst of two squadrons of Carabines The said Count Vidman was likewise a horseback with severall his Camerades at the head of the said Souldiers by whose good order and experienced understanding every thing was regular This Cavalier was assisted by Sergeant Major Molinati Captain Corradino and Grassi Count Baschi Buonfanti Captain Alphonsus Bartoi with the Militia of Frascati Castell Gandolfo and Rocca Priora Captain Anthony Torazzi with the Souldiers of Velletri and others commanders of that people who the Queen being alighted at the staires of St. Peter gave their last volley of shot which was seconded by twelve peices of Artillery brought to the said Piazza The end of the Sixth Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Seventh Book The Argument THe Queen after the Cavalcata is received in St. Peters Church by that Clergy and afterwards in the Consistory by the Pope She visits the Church of St. Mary the greater She dines with the Pope From the Vatican she goes to the Palace Farnese and is there visited by the sacred Colledg and the Grandees of the City She visits the Churches of Saint Iohn Lateran St. James of the Spaniards Giesu and the Monasteries di Torre de Specchi and St. Sixtus she sees the Castle of St. Angelo la Sapienza the Monastery of St. Catharine of Siena the Greeks Church the Roman Colledg and that of Urban for the propagation of the Faith She is present at Academies and entertained with severall Musicall Comedies THE Queen come to St. Peters while the Cardinalls were dismo●nted before to goe and assist the Pope in the publique Consistory did likewise alight and their Eminences Orsini and Costaguti committed her to the Cardinalls Medici and Sforza they themselves going thence as the first Deacons to vest and serve his Holiness Being ascended the first steps and come through all that space to the last which arrive at the Portico of the Church she saw on the last step my Lord Scanarola the Bishop of Sidoma V●car to his Eminence Cardinall Barberino the Arch Priest of St. Peter together with all the Chapter of the said Church which stood attending her The said Scanarola presented her the Cross to be kiss'd and she kissed it kneeling on a cushion of cloth of gold vnder which was spread a great carpet of the same In the mean time while a great quire of Musitians Sang the Anthem she is beautifull c. The Queen entred into the Church in the midst of the said Cardinalls Medici and Sforza The said Bishop gave her holy water and by all the quires of the Musitians was begun the hymne of Te Deum This sumptuous Temple was all hung with tapistries out of the wardrobe of Cardinall Barberino among which were fifty eight hangings for doores very splendidly embroydered with gold with the Armes of her Majesty in the middle ten of which were embellished with severall Mottos alluding to the glories of this renowned Princess So being preceded by the Clergy with the

secret sacristy to reverence the holy veile of our Saviour and the other famous reliques which are kept o're the Altar of the said Chappell Her Majesty saw likewise the famousest records of that most holy Church and being afterwards saluted again with discharging of the Canon Mortar-peices she went in her litter to the Palace of the Signior Giacobilli appointed for her lodging where with her great and royall affability she kindly received the dutifull tribute paid devoutly to her by the Ladies who there were very numerous and splendidly attir'd and waited on her Majesty to her Chamber The said palace was furnisht with fine and rich tapistries and on the top of the staires was erected a fair lodg with a prospect enrich't with many Figures Mottos and Inscriptions In the mean time the table was furnish't with transparent workes of jellys and statues of Sugar which were so well design'd so mysterious and remarkable that they gave both pleasant nourishment to the body and mind Her Majesty din'd in publique with the Cardinall Signior Marcello Rondinini the Cardinalls Brother being her Cupbearer and Count Francis de gli Odoli Count Angelos Sonne the noble Cavalier of Perug●a her Sewer and Count Sforza Fiumi of Assisi presenting the napkin To express the dainty meats and exquisite feast it may suffice to say they had what the earth the air and the waters could afford that was excellent good and pretious While her Majesty was at table the Nuntij the Spanish Ambassadour with the rest of the great Cavaliers and eminent Courtiers were splendidly feasted in the Convent of Saint Francis where ten appartaments richly furnish't were prepared When dinner was ended her Majesty retir'd into her Chamber and calling for my Lord Holstenius who was then return'd from Saint Francis his convent told him she desired to see once again one by one the triumphs or statues of Sugar with which they had adorned the table which were brought in all hast to her Majesty who admired the workmans invention and wit And since they were so liked by her who with her refin'd understanding can discerne in each thing what is beautifull and good it will not peradventure be displeasing to the reader to have a short description of it without prejudicing other feasts where tables set out in this manner we omitted to describe as a thing too long and tedious peradventure In one were represented the four Cardinall vertues which supported in the right hand on a Pillar adorned with embossed works a royall Crown at the corners of which Pillar sate four boyes each holding up a Crown and a Scepter and before the said Pillar were four meddalls adorned with embossed works with Chaplets of gold In another on a round Pillar the Goddess Pallas who giving her spear and helmet to a boy stood presenting with her right hand in a reverent posture a Crown to the Queen seeming to yeild to her the superiority in the Sciences The said Pillar was adorned with embossed works covered with gold among which were distributed four Harpies of counterfeit brass They saw afterwards a square pedestall adorned with gilt medalls in embossed works and Time lying along on which in a little Pillar stood Fame who holding in her left hand a trumpet held with the right o're her head a meddall representing the Queen She held Time bound with a chain of gold who covered with his robe many meddalls of Heros and being so bound seem'd subject to the fame of her Majesty At the corners of the pedestall four flowers sprowted up in the forme of a Pinetree which budded our of feillage worke of gold whose artificiall posture shew'd art had emulated nature In the midst of the front of the pillar was a meddal of the colour of a rose limn'd with gold with ornaments about it of severall flowers distributed with proportionable simmetry Then a clow'd was discover'd in another all resplendent with gold on which was extended the Chariot of the Sunne which drawn by four horses was guided by Apollo who carried in his right hand a bundle of gilt eares of corn or'e which a little Angell supported a Crown of gold and with the left hand held the reyns of the horses finely barded with ribbands of gold and silver a little boy going before them in the air with a torch in his hand denoting the dawning of the day There was besides another round Pillar on which a silver cliffe squezed his locks wreathed with lawrell the extremity of the Figure ending in a rock on which grew a palm tree dilating it's boughs over it and was with the left hand embraced by the same the right hand pointing to the herbes it produces for the service of Kings About the Pillar were carved four little ones where were as many little boyes with Coronets of Cedar within which they discovered the leaves of the flowers sustained by the round Pillar four Harpies of brass with gilt Spanish olives and a Chaplet of gold in their hands presenting each a dish of Pomegranates which afterwards was intermixed with Pine-apple kernells in a little guilded Chaplet joyn'd to the feillage work of other fruites the earth does produce with carvings adorned with gold When her Majesty had seen and attentively gaz'd on the said triumphs she said one of them was wanting which the Cardinall had sent to my Lord Sarvantij one of the Masters of the ceremonies to his Holiness who lodged without the palace but her Majesty desiring to see it it was quickly brought to her This represented Immortality which on a square Pillar adorned with antique faces of gold held up with her hands o're her head a gilt circle within which was a meddall with the Picture of her Majesty as one that had no confines but what were assigned her by eternity Three boyes stood distributed on the brims of the dish one of which representing painting on a table of gold made her Picture with the pensill the other signifying sculpture carv'd her in marble and the third denoting history with the pen made characters on a book all three shewing joyntly they were busie in perpetuating the name of her Majesty Among them were three little vases adorn'd with antique faces cover'd over with gold which held gilt eares of corn and in the space between the boyes and the vases flowers of Sugar budded forth of admirable workmanship all resting on candid Sugar which ended in a very fine Chaplet The Queen took great pleasure in beholding these rare peices not because they contained her prayses whose modesty and generosity contemnes all applause and Commendation but onely for the invention and excellency of the workmanship These things being ended her Majesty accompanied by the Cardinall went to visit the Church of the Angells and permitting not his Eminence to go farther it being then late went into her litter and advanced towards Foligno being very well satisfied in having beheld that famous devotion and known the civility and eminent

assuring him of his Highnesses great joy and content for his arrivall He afterwards heard most gladly and with due attention the perfect relation Holstenius gave him in order to the conduct of this most weighty business of which till that time he had had no notice telling him in reality that all things were prepar'd in that state for the honour alone of her Majesties passage and therefore it displeas'd much his Highnesse than he had not had some knowledge of the business of her Profession since the subject of the Comedies entertainments should not have been profane but sacred and agreeable to the quality of the function On the first of November divine Office was celebrated in the Arch-Dukes church by a mitered Abbot where their Highnesses were present together with all the Court and excellent musick was sweetly accompanied with so tunable a consort and harmony of trumpets tabours and drums that as a new thing and unheard of before it pleased their curiosity extreamly The Queen was to hear it at an open publique window and was very well satisfied and delighted After dinner Holstenius went to visit Don Antony Pimentel Ambassadour of Spain and discours'd long with him on the points of his Commission The Ambassadour reply'd with the Courtesy and prudence of a very able minister and Compleat Cavalier that there would be no difficulty in order to the publique profession which troubl'd him most nor concerning the rest Holstenius shew'd him a Coppy of the said profession which was printed on purpose in Inspruch with great characters that the Queen might have no trouble to read it as also he communicated to him the form of the absolution which was printed and the necessary interlocutions for this act The Ambassadour read all the writeings and carri'd them speedily to the Queen to consult them with her Majestie He returned soone after told him the Queen found not any opposition in them but was rather ready to perform whatsoever should be pleasing to his Holiness as likewise she acknowled'd it for a singular favour that his Highness had sent him for this function whom she wisht to see and hear offering him audience at that very instant My Lord Holstenius was cloath'd then in black down to his heeles to distinguish this visit from that to the Arch-Dukes which he made to them cloathed in purple so as he desired the conveniency of a quarter of an hour to go back to his lodging and change as he did his cloathes So quickly returning he was soon introduced to her Majesty who at the second reverence Holstenius made to her in the middle of the roome between the door and a little table on which the Queen stood leaning her Majesty went towards him some two or three paces receiving him with a smile and a cheerful and pleasing countenance My Lord Holstenius spake to her in order to his instructions and when she had replyed to the congratulation and expression of his Holinesses fatherly affection she said about the principal businesse of her profession the Embassadour without doubt had assured him before of her readinesse to do all things which by order of his Holinesse were commanded him and seeming impatient to performe them out of hand she resolved of her selfe the said function should be on the following Wednesday the third of November When her Majesty had answered to the heads proposed to her by Holstenius he confirmed the pleasure she took in seeing he was sent unto her for this purpose by his Holiness She discoursed with him with much affability shewing she was particularly informed of his qualities his eminent learning and singular erudition in the Sciences She spake with much praise and great esteem of his vertuous labours as well sacred as prophane She curiously inquired of the rare books that are kept in the Vatican of the learned men in Rome and particularly of the Cardinals and Prelates shewing she was very well informed as well in the general as particularly of the Court of Rome and going on in telling him she thought it her good fortune to be able to make use of a person of his quality at Rome for the seeing of the Libraries Antiquities and other curious things Holstenius presented her his Holinesses Brief of the following tenor To our most dear Daughter in Christ Christina the illustrious Queen of Swedland Alexander VII Pope Our most dear Daughter in Christ Greeting and Apostolicall benedection As soon as we heard your Majesty embracing in Bruxels though not openly the integrity of the Romane to wit the Catholique faith had risen out of the filth of old err●rs and that the holy Ghost had created new wisdom in you what joy over flowed our soul no force or strength of words can expresse This our greatnest gladnesse to which hardly any thing could be added in appearance was in a high manner encreas'd by your journey begun towards this place to the end you might reverence the Trophyes of the Apostles the faith which was commended by the Apostles own mouth and us whom though unworthy Christ would have in Peters stead and his own to bear rule o're his Church upon Earth In doing of which you not onely will equall the never dying praises of the famousest Princes who thought it a glory to them to depose their triumphall Ornaments and Laurells at the feet of the Fisher and the Bishops of Rome but likewise from the City it self the Mistris of rightly believing and teaching draw the precepts of true and heavenly learning Yet because not without some hurt unto them who assume to themselves a vain opinion of knowledge and onely are wise among themselves so much light lyes yet hidden under the bushel at ought at length to shine out to all from an eminent place that they by these examples and foot steps may likewise come in We send to your Majesty our beloved son Luke Holstenius of our Houshold principal Apostolical Notary Canon of the Church of St. Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library a man for his knowledge in all learning and singular piety very dear unto us who may be assistant to you in your publique profession of the Catholick faith according to the ancient and accustomed manner of the Roman Church and by whom our great love to you and the joy we have received may more fully be declared But we firmely hope in him who hath wrought in you so mercifully salvation your Majesty will be wanting in nothing that may shew you not unworthy of this most ample benefit and that by your ready obsequiousnesse and hearty obedience you will testifie to all you have earnestly sought and most ardently received the Catholick faith By the sad Luke our fatherly and most loving benediction more to this purpose your Majestie will receive for whom we most earnestly begg all happinesse of God and that he would strengthen the power his right hand hath wrought marvellously