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A55353	A modern view of such parts of Europe that hath lately been and still are the places of great transactions, viz. Italy with all its principalities. France with all its provinces and bishopricks. Germany with the Dukedome of Lorrain, and all the electorates, and lordshops of the empire. Spain, with all its dominions, &c. Wherein is shewed the present state of all those countries, with curious remarks of antiquity interwoven.	Pontier, Gédéon, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2805; ESTC R217679	132,112	321

Valencia three Compostella fifteen Taragon seven Toledo has two hundred thousand Piasters yearly Sevil eighty Sarragossa fifty thousand Burgos thirty thousand Grenada thirty thousand Valencia thirty thousand Compostella twenty four thousand Taragon sixteen thousand The Bishoprick of Ciguenca brings fifty thousand Piasters and Cadiz twelve thousand The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks have a great Revenue in Spain If the number of Archbishopricks be there small it is very great in the Estates of Naples which are possess'd by his Catholick Majesty it is true that these here are very much limited in the extent of Country and in their Rents as in the rest of Italy excepting the Archbishoprick of Milan Naples and Messina They count in the Kingdom of Naples twenty Archbishopricks and a hundred twenty seven Bishopricks Pope Adrian the Fourth granted to the Kings of Spain in the person of Charles the Fifth of whom he had been Tutor the Right of Nomination to Bishopricks and other Consistorial Benefices they have the Nomination but of some in the Kingdom of Naples The same Pope Adrian a Spaniard gave the Conquest of the New World to the Kings of Spain wherein other Nations do not agree Atabalipa one of the Kings of Peru call'd the Incas being told that this Pope had given the King of Spain his Country said with a laughter Who is that man who gives that which belongs to another This Incas being taken Prisoner by the Spaniards offered for his liberty a Chamber full of Gold and pretious Stones which could not save his life Before he died he appeal'd to the Justice of the God of Christians Protector of the afflicted and innocent Pizarre has been blam'd every where for having caus'd him to be strangled he fear'd that if he let him live he would be taken by force from him Philip the Second boasted that he comprehended the course of the Sun within his Dominions by reason of America because the Sun shines there always when it is set in Europe A Grandee of Spain having said on a day to this Prince that a year before the Emperour Charles the Fifth had left to him his Crowns he replied that it was a year since also that he repented of it The said Philip died of the Lowsie Disease after having lost the Kingdom of Tunis and Holland Pope Clement the Seventh ended his life also by the same Disease caus'd through a great corruption Philip the Fourth fell much from his vast Dominion by the loss of Portugal with all its dependancies in the East and West and after the seizure of Jamaica by the English Spain was extreamly dispeopled by the Expulsion of the Moors and Jews it was farther emptied to stock the Indies and these Dominions being disperst in many places cannot easily be reliev'd Its Mountains are barren and its Women not very fertile The Spaniards are grave in their walk and discourse This makes me think of a pleasant passage related by a modern Author he says that a Buffoon with his ridiculous Gestures and Expressions having on a day made the Queen laugh extreamly at Table it was said to her that a Queen of Spain ought to be serious This Princess who was in her Orient newly come from Germany answer'd that they should then take away that Fellow from before her eyes if they would not have her laugh The Spanish Nation has the repute of making Rodomontadoes the following is not mean made by an Officers a Prisoner of War in France Loüis the Thirteenth having askt him wherefore the King of Spain went not to the Wars as the Kings of France he answered with an Exclamation Ho it is not necessary if the King my Master went to the Army he would make the whole Earth to tremble The Spaniards are fit for holding a long Siege because being sober they endure hunger and thirst a long time They fear much the English wherefore they have said La Guerra con toto il Mundo y la pace con los Inglesos War against the whole World and Peace with the English because they are better Souldiers than them on the Sea. All men are not fit for the Sea. There grows not much Corn in Spain because the Lands are ill cultivated France and Sicily are its its Granaries and of the Low Countries Its Mines of Andalusia Estramadura Grenada Murcia and of some other places are very famous They embark at Malaga the Wine of Grenada which is brought to Paris at Alicant that of Murcia and at Cadiz that of Andalusia The white-Wine is there better than the Claret Arragon and Castille produce not much Wine that of Portugal is almost of a Crimson colour Their Oyls of Olives their Woolls their Silks their Horses and their Mines are very considerable The Castilian Language is the finest of all Spain Charles the Fifth said that if he were to speak to God he would speak in the Spanish Tongue by reason of its Gravity to Men in French to Ladies in Italian to Horses in the German Some Castilians have dar'd to say either through a gayness of Spirit or as a Rodomontado that God spake Castilian to Moyses on Mount Sinai They speak grossly in Galicia Agrippa describing the Humour of four chief Nations of Christendom says among other things that in their singing The Spaniards Groan The Italians Bleat The Germans howl The French Quaver The 27th of Decem. 1676. the King of Spain writ a Letter to Don Juan by which his Catholick Majesty signified to him that he judg'd it convenient to have him near him to assist him with his Counsel It is coucht in these terms according to an Extract taken from the London-Gazette of the fifth of Feb. 1677. The Copy of the Letter of the King of Spain writ to Don John of Austria DOn Juan of Austria my Brother of the Council of State Governour and Captain-General of the Spanish Low Countries and Commander General of all our Sea-Forces the Affairs of this Monarchy being at present in such a condition that I find my self oblig'd to seek all sorts of ways for setling them as they ought to be and having considered that you are therein so very much interessed and that I must impart to you the greatest part of my Resolutions I propos'd to my self to require you to repair hither without any delay to assist me in a juncture so important it 's what I promise my self from the zeal which I have always found in you for the good of the State. God keep you in his protection as I wish From Madrid the 24th of Decem. 1676. EGO REX By the Command of our Lord the King D. Hierom de Eguia The Copy of the Letter of the Queen-Mother to Don John. THe King my Son has resolv'd as you may understand by the Letter which he has written to you that you repair hither as soon as may be to assist him in the administration of the Affairs of the Monarchy and I may tell you that there is nothing which can please me more than to see you embrace the direction with all the diligence which the juncture of affairs requires In which I shall rely on your zeal and good intentions assuring you that for as much as shall be in my power I shall always use my endeavours for procuring you all satisfaction From Madrid the 27th of Decem. 1676. The Answer of Don Juan to the Queens Letter Not doubting but your Majesty sees the Answer which I have made to the Letter of the King my Brother whom God preserve it would be to no purpose for me to repeat it to you assuring your Majesty that you never may have had nor never will have any person who wishes and wishes again to your Majesty with a more sincere intention that which I take God to witness to be most beneficial and advantageous for the service of your Majesty At whose feet I cast my self praying God to maintain your Majesty a long uninterrupted course of years in Posterity From Sarragossa the first of Jan. 1671. In the same year the Marquess de Villa Seria lost the Kings Favour His Catholick Majesty arriv'd at Sarragossa accompanied with Prince Don Juan the Duke Medina Coeli Great Chamberlain the Constable of Castille Great Steward of the Kings Household the Count de Talaras the Duke de Montery and with Count d'Arcot The Queen was in her Government of Toledo Some time afterward the new Corrigidor of Madrid or the chief Governour of the Polity for remedying the inconveniencies which ordinarily happen in the night ordain'd the seventh of October conformably to what has been practis'd of late years at Paris and at Amsterdam for the publick good that for the future there should be expos'd throughout the whole Town of Madrid Lights in the Streets by the means of Lanterns and ordered that from five to five houses there should be a Light for which the five houses should contribute proportionally This Sentence has been put in execution At the beginning of the year 1678. the Council gave sentence in the case of Don Ferdinand of Valenzuela Marquess of Villa Seria who was condemn'd to a perpetual banishment and sent to the Philippine Islands Intelligence was given An. 1680. that the King of Spain call'd him back from banishment from the Islands where Don Juan had caus'd him to be banisht The 17th of September Don Juan of Austria natural Son of the late King Philip the Fourth died being fifty years of age His Body was carried to the Escurial This Prince died at the same hour the same day and the same month as the late King his Father 1666. He was a great Captain fearless in War a man of great Reservation a great Minister of State penetrating all things and neglecting nothing The Kings Marriage CHarles the Second King of Spain being given to understand that the King of France had granted him the Princess Mary Louise of Orleans for Spouse made extraordinary Rejoycings at Madrid all the Town appear'd in fire for many days the People cryed with a loud voice That France had always giv'n them good Queens At their Arrival the Patriarch of the Judges gave their Catholick Majesties the second Benediction The 13th of January 1680. the Queen of Spain made her publick and solemn Entrance at Madrid FINIS

the others are also of a great price The Head of St. Loüis King of France is at Paris in the holy Chappel of the Palace Jean d'Eureux Queen of France took it from the Treasury of St. Denis and put in its place parcels of all the Relicks that are in the said holy Chappel There is seen in the same Treasury of St. Denis a Cup of Tamarisk-wood in which St. Loüis drank to keep himself from the Spleen A Vessel of an oriental Agate esteem'd one of the most pretious pieces of the Treasury for its largeness antiquity and work It 's believed that Ptolomy Philadelphus caused it to be made and that it was working with the point of a Diamond for thirty years Another Vessel of Gold in the form of a Salver adorn'd with Granats Jacinths and with a great white Saphire in the midst on which is seen the Effigies of King Solomon seated in his Throne It is judg'd that it appertained to this Monarch as also a great Vessel of Rock-Christal by reason of some Inscriptions in Samaritan Characters A Gamahaea in an Agat-stone expressing the Image of the Queen of Saba Many Crowns of Gold and Silver that of Charlemain St. Loüis Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth and Loüis the Fourteenth Each of these Kings has given to the Treasury two Crowns one of Gold the other of Silver gilt That of Charlemain which is carried to Rheims to serve at the Coronation of our Kings with the other Royal Ornaments is all of Gold adorn'd with great Rubies Saphirs and Emeralds The Crown of St. Loüis is likewise of massie Gold adorn'd with very beautiful pretious Stones amongst others with a Ruby valued at a hundred thousand crowns in which is inchast by the Kings order a Thorn of the Crown of the Son of God. There is seen the Image of the same St. Loüis grav'd on a Ring with these two letters S and L that is to say Sigillum Ludovici because he made use of it to seal his Letters All the Kings have shewn themselves liberal to this Treasury some Abbots of the Order have also given to it particularly Abbot Suger His two little Pots are not common the one is of Rock-Christal the other of Beril cut with the point of a Diamond His Chalice is made of a very fair oriental Agate In this Treasury are kept a great many Swords that of Charlemain that which St. Loüis brought with him at his first Voyage from the Holy Land that of the Pucelle of Orleans Joanne d'Arc and also the Sword of Turpin who having been made Archbishop of Rheims afterwards bore Arms against the Infidels There are seen there many other Pieces of Antiquity So much for a Sample of this Treasury He that desires to see more may go to St. Denis where a Religious man shews it every day at two of the clock in the afternoon Those that cannot come to see it may read a little Book in 12º entitul'd Inventaire du Tresor de S. Denis where all the Pieces are briefly describ'd according to the Order of the eight Presses where they are shewn This little Book is printed at Paris by Pierre de Bost Rue S. Jacques at the signe of St. Francis near St. Severin The Tombs of the Kings of France DAgobert the First eleventh King of France and St. Loüis the forty fourth have their Tombs in the Quire of the Church and many other Kings and Queens In the common Vault of Rites repose Henry the Fourth Mary de Medicis his Wife Loüis the Thirteenth Anne of Austria his Spouse The Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle Madam de Montpensier his first Wife Henriette-Marie Queen of England Henriette-Anne her Daughter the first Wife of Monsieur the Kings Brother and others The Monument of Francis the First is out of the Quire on the side of the Cloister in a rais'd Monument They count five Kings out of the Quire on the Gospel-side Marshal de Turenne is in a Chappel near the high Altar Loüis the 14th has caus'd a Monument to be rais'd in his memory and in acknowledgment of the great Services he did to France After his death many Services and Funeral Prayers were said for him in the principal Churches of Paris Bertrand du Quesclin Sancerre a Gentleman of Britany Constable of France has his Tomb for his Fidelity and Valour amongst those of the Kings by the order of Charles the Fifth called the Wife Clouis the first of the name the fifth King of France and Clotilde his Spouse have their Mausolea at Paris in the Abbey of St. Genevieve in the Quire. Other famous places of Devotion and Pilgrimages greatly frequented in the Kingdom and favour'd with the kindest Aspect of Heaven THe Church of Nostre-Dame at Paris in the Isle of France that of the Abbey of St. Genevieve and the Chappel of the Hospital of the Holy Ghost Nostre-dame de Grace near Gallion in the Diocess of Roüen Nostre-Dame de Chartres in Beausse Nostre-Dame de L'Epine near Chalons in Champagne Nostre-Dame de Liesse in Picardy Nostre-Dame de Bologne on the Sea. Nostre-Dame de la Deliverance and Mount S. Michel in Normandy Sainte-Reine in Burgundy Nostre-Dame d'Alizor near Lyons Nostre-Dame de Loisiere and la Chartreuse of Grenoble in Daulphine St. Maximin Saint Baume and St. Martha in Provence Nostre Dame de Rochefort in Languedoc les Avignon Nostre-Dame de Grau called la Grenoüillade at half a league from Agde Nostre-Dame de Consolation half a league from Beziers and Nostre-Dame de Gignac in the same Diocess Nostre-Dame de Liviniere in the Diocess of S. Pons of Tomiers Nostre-Dame de Lorme and Nostre-Dame d'Alen in the Diocess of Montauban Nostre-Dame de Ladreiche a league from Alby The Hermitage of Nostre-Dame de Moinier in the Territory of Pompignan on the top of a high Mountain in the Diocess of Nismes St. Sernin at Tolose where are the entire Relicks of many of the Apostles Nostre-Dame d Alet and Nostre-Dame de Roqueville three leagues off Nostre-Dame de Garaizon in the Diocess of Ausche Nostre-Dame de Verdelez at Cadiliac near Bourdeaux Nostre-Dame de Nazareth in Britany three leagues from Dinan and Nostre-Dame de bonnes Nouvelles at Rennes Nostre-Dame d'Ardilliers in the Diocess of Anger 's in Anjou Nostre-Dame de Mibonnet a league from Moulins in the Diocess of Authun in Bourbonnois Nostre-Dame de Clery near Orleans on the Loire Nostre-Dame du Puy Nostre-Dame de Fridieire and Nostre-Dame de Pitie in Auvergne This is without the Town of Chaude-Agues on a sharp Rock Abbot Cholmerl is the Founder Nostre-Dame de Banelle and Nostre-Dame de Sabar are in the County of Foix in the Diocess of Comminges Nostre Dame de Quezac in Givodan near St. Maur the Abbey of St. Bennet in the Diocess of Mande Nostre-Dame de Roquemadou and Nostre-Dame de Liaurou in Quercy in the Diocess of Cahors Nostre-Dame de Cignac in the Diocess of Rhodes The House of Arpajou has given it great

Confessors to whom he gives the power of Absolving from all Crimes and even in cases that are reserved to himself The opening of the Holy Door is an Hieroglyphick of the opening of the Churches Treasure whereof the Pope is the dispenser four doors are open'd to shew that persons are call'd from the four parts of the world The Doors are washt to intimate that those persons gain the Jubile who are cleansed from their faults and defilement by the vertue of the Sacraments and by the application of the Merits of Jesus Christ over the Holy Door they set the Name of the Pope that opened it last and the time The shutting up of the Jubile THe end of the year of Jubile being elaps'd the Pope on Christ mass-Eve goes in Procession from the Apostolick Palace to St. Peters Church where after Vesperas are sung his Holiness appoints three Cardinals to go and shut the other three holy doors and at the same time himself accompanied with the Clergy and with all that is great and splendid in Rome marches processionally goes forth at the holy door blesses the Materials appointed to wall it up which is not open'd but the year of the Jubile lays the first stone with some pieces of Gold and of Silver and says in Latine what I turn into English Through the Faith and through the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ Son of the living God who said to the Prince of the Apostles Thou art Peter and on this Rock I will build my Church we lay this first stone for shutting this Holy Door which ought to be again thus shut in this year of Jubile In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost In what sence the Title of Holiness is attributed to the Pope against the Protestants THe Pretenders to Religion who love always to cavil and to mix Controversy in their Discourse conformable to what is said by the Latine Poet Navita de ventis de Bobus narrat Arator Enumerat Miles vulnera Pastor oves not able to endure that we give the Pope the Title of Holiness nor that we call the Doors before mentioned Holy thinking it a Blasphemy I answer them that they blame what they do not understand they ought to consider that there are three sorts of Holiness the first by Nature and Essence which is increated infinite incomprehensible and incommunicable to all other persons but to those of the most Holy Trinity The second by Consecration which is found in animate and inanimate things it is diversly caused by Prayers and Blessings by Oyl and by Unction The third Holiness consists in an Habitual Grace inviolable to sin The Catholicks do not say that the Pope is Holy by a Holiness of Nature or of Essence which belongs but to God alone who is the sole Original final Sovraign of all Holiness the Popes understand it so they own themselves sinners before God implore his mercy and make a confession of their sins When we call the Pope the Holy Father it is by Consecration the Priests the Prophets and the Kings were Anointed and Consecrated under the ancient Law as well as the new and now the Popes and the Abbots are blest Churches Altars Tabernacles Crosses Chalices and Bells are holy things with a Holiness of Consecration which is an exteriour Sanctification If the Roman Church be call'd Holy why shall we not call him Holy that presides in it If the Body be called Holy the Head is not Profane The great Priest Aaron wore on his Tiara a Plate of Gold where these words were Engraven Holiness to the Lord. Let us proceed to the other remarks and disquisitions Other Splendid Ceremonies IT 's at Rome where we see Seven other very curious and remarkable Ceremonies the Canonization of Saints the Coronation of the Pope that of the Emperour of Kings of Empresses of Queens and the Creation of Cardinals A touch in the Honour of Rome IF it be said of this Capital of the world that at present Rome is sought for in Rome because it has lost that vain splendour which it drew from its ancient Roman Emperours we say also that what she holds no longer by her Arms she possesses by Religion Sedes Roma Petri quae Pastoralis honoris Facta Caput Mundi quicquid non possidet Armis Religione tenet It 's said of St. Peters Church at Rome and of St. Sernin at Tolouse Non est in toto Sanctior orbe locus Three desires of St. Austin ST Austin wisht to see Three things Jesus Christ on the Earth St. Paul in the Chair and Rom● the Triumphante The Dominion of the Pope THe Vatican which is the Palace of St. Peter the Palace of St. John Lateran Castelgandolphi Mont-Cavallo otherwise Montquirinal and the Castle St. Angelo belong to the Pope he possesses the Patrimony of St. Peter the Dukedom of Spoleto Marcha Anconitana Romandiola the Dutchy of Benevent in the Kingdom of Naples the Dukedoms of Ferrara and of Vrbin Ceneda in the Marca Trevisano Montaldo and San Stephano on the side of the River of Genoa and the Country of Avignon in France c. You must observe that the Countess Mathilda made the Holy Sea Heir to her Lands which have since been call'd St. Peters Patrimony When the Roman Emperour is at Rome he lodges in the Vatican which is the Imperial Palace Civita Vecchia is famous for it's Port it s there where his Holinesses Galleys are they are no longer at Ancona because they were too remote from Rome Places of Pleasure TIvoli Frāscati the Villa of Pamphilio those of Burghesi of Farnesi of Aldobrandini of Montalto of Ludovisio of the Duke of Florence of the Prince Palestrini and of Matthei are very famous places of pleasure We see there the Gardens adorn'd with all rare pieces the Lodgings richly furnished the Galleries and privy Closets full of all that is curious and splendid in Rome Mazarini's Palace is of the number of the most beautiful it belongs at present to the Duke of Nevers Pope Clement the Tenth much embellisht the Bridge St. Angelo by causing to be placed on it twelve fair Statues of white Marble admirably well done and of a great height each on its Pedestals St. Peter and St. Paul stand first and on each side of them at fit distances to the end we see five Angels holding in their hands some Instrument of the Passion of our Saviour This Bridge has two fair Galleries with Iron Ballisters The Gate del Populo formerly called Flavius Gate is at present a Master-piece they call it the Gate of the People because of its nearness to the Monastery of St. Mary of the People it is of the invention of Michael Angelo The Town-hall was formerly the Capitol The Castle St. Angelo is called by this name because an Angel appeared on the top of it with a naked Sword in his hand which he put up in its Scabbard shewing by that that God was appeas'd This

Apparation happened on a day that St. Gregory the Great carried in a solemn Procession the Image of the Virgin at a time when the Plague wholly dispeopl'd Rome This Scourge ceased as soon as the Angel had sheathed his Sword. There is to be seen since in that place the Figure of an Angel in Marble The Emperour Adrian a great lover of Building caused this Fortress to be built which was the place where he was buried Pope Sixtus the V. left there five millions of Gold with a Bull defending all Popes under pain of Excommunication to alienate them but in the extremest necessity for the defence of the Popes and of the City Pope Vrban the Eighth caused this Castle to be well fortified placing in it the fairest pieces of Cannon that are any where to be seen there are six which were given by a King of England some of them are made of many Statues of the false Gods melted The Tower in the middle of it is so elevated that it commands all the approaches of the Town The Coridor of the Vatican-Palace reaching to the Castle St. Angelo is very convenient for the retreat of the Popes in times of War or of Sedition Other Ornaments of Rome IN Rome the beautiful Churches the fair Pillars the Antiquities the Popes Court the Aquoeducts the large Streets the Obelisks the Mausolea the Catacombi the Library of the Vatican draw the admiration of all men There is so great a number of Fountains that it's thought if they ran all into one Channel they would make a River and some think large enough to bear Vessels The Vatican draws its Etymology from Answers or Oracles which the Latines call Vaticinia It s Library is described by the Sieur le Gallois in his book intituled Traité des plus belles Bibliotheques de l'Europe It contains excellent Disquisitions and Curiosities It was printed at Paris An. 1680. The Rota is a famous Tribunal composed of twelve Auditors of different Nations the jurisdiction whereof extends it self on beneficiary and profane causes It 's thought they are so called because they sit in a Circle and roul about the most important differences of the Christian World. Their Judgments are called Decisions of the Rota and to express well their force and authority it suffices to say The Rota has thus determined The chief Towns of Italy with their Epithetes and Elogies are ROme the Holy Roma la Santa Naples the Noble Napoli la Gentile Venice the Rich Venetia la Ricca Genoa the Proud Genova la Superba for its Palaces and Buildings Milan the Great Milano la Grando Bolonia the Fat Bolonia la Grassa for the fertility of its Soil Ravenna the Ancient Ravenna l' Antica Padua the Learned Padua la Dotta for its University because good learning has always flourisht there According to Sabellicus we may place Mantua in parallel with Ravenna for Antiquity and with Bolonia for the goodness of its Soil Italy is called the Garden of Europe for its charming Delights and Beauty and according to the Proverb A man has seen no fine Country if he has not seen Italy I cannot end this Paragraph of the remarkable Towns of Italy without naming that of Melphi in the Kingdom of Naples which is famous for having brought forth Flavio to whom is attributed the invention of the Sea-Compass which shews Pilots the course they ought to steer the place whence they come and that whither they are going and where they are According to the common Opinion this Flavio of Melphi invented it the year of our Salvation 1300. It was called Boussole from Buxus or Buxeolus because those of the West put it at first in a Case of Box. The Sieur Faucher President of the Mint-concern says that it was called in France for above 400 years the Marinotte Some persons over-speculative think it may be presumed to have been in use in the time of the Children of Noah because they had Iron and the Load-stone proper to compose it and the knowledge of the Mathematicks Levinus and Pineda say that Solomon's Pilots made use of it to go to the Islands of Tharsis and of Ophir The Scripture notes that Solomon having equipt a Fleet on the Coast of the Red Sea Hiram King of Tyre furnisht him with his Sea-men skill'd in the Art of Navigation The Greek Poet writes that the Pole was observed in Navigation in the time of the Trojan War And the Latine Poet that men observed the Stars And thence some think that this could not be done without the Sea-Compass not considering that men before did nothing but coast about upon the Sea and sail in Roads After having mention'd the Town of Melphi on the account of Flavio that of Ferrara comes into my mind on the occasion of a great Lover of Learning viz. Coelius Calcagninus a Noble Person of Ferrara living Anno 1249. it was his will to be buried in his Library which has this Inscription on the door Index tumuli Coelii Calcagnini qui ibidem voluit sepeliri ubi semper vixit The chief Rivers THe River Po the Tiber Ticinus Doero Laddo Rubicon called now Pisatello Menzo Garrigliano Offranto in Poüille Arnus and others The Po is called by the Greeks Eridanus it passes at Turin Cazal and Valentia near Milan and at other places This River is famous amongst the Poets for the fabulous fall of young Phaeton its source is in the highest Mountain of the Alps called Montviso on the side of Piedmont it receives thirty Rivers into its Channel and a great many Lakes and Ponds its course is from the West to the East Popes by birth French-men and some passages of their Lives SYlvester the Second Vrban the Second Calixtus the Second Vrban the Fourth Clement the Fourth Innocent the Fifth Martin the Fourth Clement the Fifth John the Twenty second Benedict the Eleventh Clement the Sixth Innocent the Sixth Vrban the Fifth Gregory the Eleventh Sylvester the second of the name called before Gilbert or Gerbert born in Aquitain was a Religious man and Benedictine of St. Gerard of Aurillac in the Diocess of St. Flour and Tutor to Robert King of France and to the Emperour Otho the Third who raised him to the soveraign Pontificate He was first Archbishop of Rheims and then of Ravenna and lastly Pope which gave occasion for this Verse to be made on him Scandit ab R. Gerbertus in R. post Papa Regens est He was a great Mathematician which caused his Enemies to accuse him of Magick He was falsely charg'd for having in his Closet a Head of Brass by which the Devil answered what he askt He died the 12th day of May 1003. Pope Sergius his Successour writ his Epitaph which is yet to be seen and shews that he lived and died a holy man. Vrban the second of the name was born at Chastillon on Marne Son of Milon He was called before his Exaltation Cardinal Otho Bishop of Ostia He excommunicated the Diocess of Compostella for