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A02187	Newes from Italy of a second Moses or, the life of Galeacius Caracciolus the noble Marquesse of Vico Containing the story of his admirable conuersion from popery, and his forsaking of a rich marquessedome for the Gospels sake. Written first in Italian, thence translated into latin by reuerend Beza, and for the benefit of our people put into English: and now published by W. Crashavv ...; Historia della vita di Galeazzo Caracciolo. English	Balbani, Niccolo, d. 1587.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1608 (1608)	STC 1233; ESTC S100534	64,277	90

the Lord of hosts still to honour that honorable place you hold stil to defeat the vaine expectation of Gods enemies and to satisfie the godly hopes and desires of holy men still to discountenance Popery and all prophanenes stil by your personall diligence in frequenting holy exercises to bring on that backward citie by your godly discipline in your familie to reforme or to condemne the dissolutnes and disorder of the most great families in this country stil to minister iustice without delay to cut vp contentions saue the lawyers labour still to relieue the fatherlesse and the widow and helpe the poore against their oppressors and which is all in all still to supplant superstition popery ignorance and wilfull blindnes and to plant and disperse true Religion in that citie and these Northern countries By al these meanes still shewing your selfe an holy and zealous Phinehes vnder the great Phinehes our most worthy Soueraigne to execute Gods iudgement and to take vengeance on the Zimri and Cozbi of our nation namely on Popery and prophanenes the two great sinnes which haue pulled downe Gods plagues on our land and the due and zealous punishment whereof will be the meanes againe to remoue them But I wrong your Honours to trouble you with these my too many and too ragged lines and I wrong this noble Gentleman to cloth his golden story with this my rude and home-spun English stile and I wrong you all to keepe you so long from being acquainted with this noble Marquesse so like your selues at whose meeting and acquaintance I am sure there will be so much reioycing and mutuall congratulating at the mighty and gratious worke of God in you all The same God and mercifull father I humbly beseech and euer will to accomplish his good worke in you as he did in that noble Marquesse and as he hath already made you so many waies blessed blessed in your selues blessed one in another blessed in your conuersions blessed aboue many in your many and religious children so at last he may make you most of all blessed in your ends that so after this life you may attaine the eternall glory of a better world whither this noble Marquesse is gone before you From my studie Ian. 12. 1603. Your Honours in all Christian duety W. CRASHAVV TO THE CRISTIAN and courteous Reader GOOD Reader conceiue I pray thee that this translation being made diuers yeares agoe and communicated to my priuate friends I thought to haue suppressed it from spreading further but being pressed by importunitie and vrged with vnauoidable reasons I haue now yeelded to let it passe in publike the rather considering that though at this day almost euery houre yeeldes a new booke yet many ages affoord scarce one example like to this I haue diuided it into Chapters for thy better ease in reading and remembring and seeing I find in other Authors often mention of this noble Marquesse and his heroicallfact I haue therefore not tied my selfe precisely to the words of the Latine story but keeping the sense and scope haue sometime inlarged my selfe as the circumstance seemed to require or as I had warrant and direction from other stories Reade it with an holy and an humble heart and prayer to God and account me thy debter if thou thinke not thy labour well bestowed And when thou findest a blessing and reapest spiritual comfort hereby then vouchsase to remember me in thy prayers Temple Septem 30. 1608. Thy brother in Christ W. CRASHAVV CHAP. 1. Of the linage birth and infancy of Galeacius Caracciolus the noble Marquesse of Vico. My purpose is to commit to writing the life of Galeacius Caracciolus as being a rare example of a most strange and seldome seene constancy in the defence of Godlinesse and true Christian Religion HE was borne at Naples a renowned Citie in Italie in the moneth of Ianuary in the yeare of Christ 1517. His fathers name was Calantonius who was descended of the ancient and noble house of the Caracciolies in the Country of Capua This Calantonius euen in his youth was not onely well respected but highly esteemed and a familiar friend of that noble Prince of Orarge who after the taking and sacking of Rome was placed in the roome of the Duke of Borben yea his faithfulnesse and industry was so well approued to the Prince as often times afore so especially at the siege of Naples what time it was assaulted by Lotrechius as that afterward when the Emperour Charles the fist of that name who then was at Rome to receiue the Imperiall crowne and other ornaments of the Empire did appoint the said Prince with certaine forces to go and besiege the Citie of Florence he thought it needfull to take the said Calantonius with him for his wisedome and graue counsell From whence when that seruice was ended he being sent to Casar himselfe he did so wisely demeane himselfe in all his affaires and did so sufficiently satisfie the Emperour in all things that he made good in euery point that worthy testimony which the Prince had giuen of him whereupon he being at that time most honourably entertained of the Emperour himselfe was by him not only aduanced to the state and title of a Marquesse but also equally ioyned in commission with the Viceroy of Naples for his wisedome and experience in all kind of affaires to be assistant vnto him and fellow with him in swaying the Scepter of that Kingdome In which office and function hee so caried himselfe as he wonne the good will of both small and great as wel of the Nobles as of the Commonalty yea insomuch as he was deepely inuested in the fauour of the Emperour Charles and king Philip his sonne And so he continued in this dignitie till the last day of his life which was in the moneth of February in the yeare 1562. he being himselfe more then three score and ten yeares of age Such a father and no worse had this Galeacius As for his mother she was descended of the noble familie of the Caraffi and her owne brother was afterward Pope of Rome Which I affirm notto that end as though this in it self was any true praise or honour to Galeacius but that his loue to true Religion and his constancy in defence thereof euen against such mighty ones may appeare the more admirable to all that heare it as it hereby did to all that knew him Ofwhich his loue to true Religion we shall speake more anon Galeacius being twenty yeares olde and the onely sonne of his mother who was now deceased his father Calantonius being desirous to continue his name to preserue his house and posteritie and to maintaine his estate and patrimonie whose lands amounted to the summe of fiue thousand poundes a yeare and vpward did therefore prouide him a wife a Virgin of noble birth called Victoria daughter to the Duke of Nuceria one of the principal Peeres of Italy with whom he had in name of portion or

NEWES FROM ITALY OF A SECOND MOSES OR THE LIFE OF GALEACIVS CARACCIOLVS the noble Mar quesse of Vico. Containing the story of his admirable con uersion from popery and his forsaking of a rich Marquesse dome for the Gospels sake Written first in Italian thence translated into latin by reuerend Beza and for the benefit of our people put into English and now published BY W. CRASHAVV Batcheler in Diuinitie and Preacher at the Temple In memoria sempiterna erit Iusius PSALME 112. The iust shalf be had in an euerlasting remembrance Printed by H. B. for Richard Moore and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetestreete 1608. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND MY VERY GOOD LORD EDmund Lord Sheffeild Lord Lieutenant in the North and Lord President of his Highnes Counsell there of the noble order of the Garter and to the right honourable and religious Ladies the Lady Dowglasse his mother and Lady Vrsula his wife and to all the vertuous of-spring of that noble race Grace and Peace c. GIVE me leaue right Honourable to put you all in one Epistle whom God and nature haue linked so well together Nature in the neerest bond and God in the holiest Religion For a simple new-yeares gift I present you with as strange a story as out of the holy stories was euer heard Will your Honours haue the whole in briefe afore it be laid downe at large Thus it is Galeacius Caracciolus sonne and heire apparent to Calantonius Marquesse of Vicum in Naples bred borne and brought vp in Popery a Courtier to the Emperour Charles the fift nephew to the Pope Paul the fourth being married to the Duke of Nucernes daughter and hauing by her six goodly children at a Sermon of Peter Martyrs was first touched after by reading Scripture and other good meanes was fully conuerted laboured with his Lady but could not perswade her Therefore that he might enioy Christ and serue him with a quiet conscience he left the lands liuings and honoures of a Marquesdome the comsorts of his Lady and children the pleasures of Italy his credit with the Emperour his kinred with the Pope and forsaking all for the loue of Iesus Christ came to Geneua and there liued a poore and meane but yet an honourable and an holy life for fortie yeares And though his father his Lady his kinsemen yea the Emperour and the Pope did all they could to reclaime him yet continued he constant to the end and liued and died the blessed seruant of God about fifteene yeares agoe leauing behind him a rare example to all ages This right Houourable is a briefe of the whole and it is a story admirable and imitable if any other in this later age of the world Some vse to craue of great personages not to respect the gift but the giuer but in this case I contrariwise intreat your honours not to respect the giuer but the gift of the giuer I say enough if I say nothing but of the gift I meane of noble Galeacius I say too little when I haue said all I can But this I must needs say So religions so noble so vertuous was the man so resolute so holy so heroicall was the fact so strange the beginning so admirable and extraordinary the perseuerance as if the story were not debased by the rudenes of my translation I durst say none so great but might reade it nor so good but might follow it I may say much rather then Iacob Few and euill haue my da●●s beene Yet in these few daies of mine something haue I seene more haue I read more haue I heard yet neuer saw I heard I or read I any example al things laid together more neerely seconding the example of Moses then this of this most renowned Marquesse Galeacius Moses was the adopted sonne of a Kings daughter Galeacius the naturall sonne and heire apparent to a Marquesse Moses a Courtier in the Court of Pharaoh Galeacius in the Court of the Emperour Charles the fift Moses by adoption a kinne to a Queene Galeacius by marriage a kinne to a Duke by blood sonne to a Marquesse nephew to a Pope Moses in possibility of a Kingdome he in possession of a Marquesdome Moses in his youth brought vp in the heathenisme of Egypt Galeacius noo●eled in the superstition of Popery Moses at last saw the truth and embraced it so did Galeacius Moses openly fell from the heathenisme of Egypt so did Galeac us from the superstition of Popery But all this is nothing to that which they both suffred for their conscience What Moses suffred Saint Paul tels vs Moses when he was come to yeares refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter and chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season steeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt Nay Moses had rather be a base bricke-maker amongst the oppressed Israelites being true Christians then to be the sonne of a Kings daughter in the Court of Pharaoh amongst Idolaters In like case noble Galeacius when he was come to yeares and knowledge of Christ refused to be called sonne and heire to a Marquesse Cup hearer to an Emperour Nephew to a Pope and chose rather to suffer affliction persecution banishment losse of lands liuings wife children honours and preferments then to enioy the sinfull pleasures of Italy for a season esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the honours of a Marquesdome without Christ and therefore seeing hee must either want Christ or want them hee dispoyled himselfe of all these to gaine Christ If right Honourable the wife fooles of this world might haue the censuring of these two men and their actions they would presently iudge them a couple of impassionate and stoicall fellowes or else melancholike and brame-sicke men to refuse Marquesdomes and Kingdomes for scruple of co nscience but no matter as long as the men are Saints in heauen and their actions honoured of God and his Angels admired of good men and neglected of none but those who as they will not follow them on earth so are they sure neuer to follow them to heauen So excellent was the fact of Moses and so heroicall that the holy Ghost vouchsafes it remembrance both in the olde and new Testament that so the Church in all ages might know it and admire it and doth Chronicle it in the Epistle to the H brewes almost two thousand yeares after it was done If God himselfe did so to Moses shall not Gods Church be carefull to commend to posterity this second Moses whose loue to Christ Iesus was so zealous and so inflamed by the heauenly fire of Gods spirit that no earthly temptations could either quench or abate it but to winne Christ and to enioy him in the liberty of his word and Sacraments he delicately contemned the honors and pleasures of the Marquesdome of Vicum Vicum one of