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A62355	Italy in its original glory, ruine, and revival being an exact survey of the whole geography and history of that famous country, with the adjacent islands of Sicily, Malta, &c. : and whatever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of the world) and all those towns and territories mentioned in antient and modern authors / translated out of the originals for general satisfaction, by Edmund Warcupp, Esquire.	Schottus, Franciscus, 1548-1622.; Warcupp, Edmund.	1660 (1660)	Wing S891; ESTC R14486	337,341	355

Vicentini the Opitergini Concordiesi Altinati and several other People who to fly the Fury of Attila King of the Hunnes recovered this Place gives no small Imbellishment to this View Between the said Moorish Grounds now the Streets and the Sea by Dame Nature is raised a Fence or Bank to defend the City the small Islands against the furious Waves of the Sea with which 't is invironed Which Fence is Thirty five Miles long and bends in the shape of a Bow opening it self in five several Places for each of which is a Gate as well to permit Barkes to enter in at them as to maintain the said Channels full of Water The profound Havens of Chioza and Malamocco with the Forts built at the Mouth of the said Havens to keep any Armado or Fleet at a distance And lastly the beholding the Mountaines of Carnia and of Histria and on the Right Hand the Apenine Hills with Lumbardy together with the Famous Hills called Euganei with the mouthes of the Rivers Adice and Poe and behind them the Alpes of Baviera and of the Gerisons alwaies covered with Snow gives no small satisfaction nor beauty to his Prospect And now we come to the Famous Piazza or broad place of S. Mark whose platform resembles a Carpenters square at the one end whereof stands the Admirable Church of St. Mark and at the other That of St. Geminian wrought with excellent Stones and round the said Place are built fair and sumptuous Houses all of Marble Stone under which are large open Galleries wherein are Shops for several Artificors In this place daily appear an infinite number of Persons of all Qualities and Countries in their several Habits as well for Newes and Discourses as for Traffick and Merchandize At the upper end of the said Place upon the Channel called La Gi●…deca are two Pillars admired for their Heigth and Bigness which were transported heretofore from Constantinople upon the one whereof stands a Winged Lyon the Republick Armes in token of St. Marke their Protector with this Motto Pax tibi Marce Evangelist●…mens and upon the other is set the Statue of St. Theodore between which Justice is done upon Traitorous Persons These were brought from Greece to Venice in the time of Sebastian Ciani the Duke upon certain Vessels of burden together with another of equal Greatness the which overcomming the Power and Industry of the Workmen labouring to lay it on the Earth it fell into the Water where at this time t is to be seen in the Deep These vast Columns were reared by an Engineer of Lombardy named Nicolo Berreterro by the strength of great Ropes wet with water retiring by little and little who asked no other reward for this his worke but that it might be Lawful for Dice-Players to play there when they pleased without any penalty This Piazza is not intirely one alone but fower united together Opposite to the Church are reared three Standards upon three high pieces of Timber which are fastened by Lead cast into the boared holes they are wrought with figures to denote the liberty of this City and have Brass Pedestalls On the right side of the Church stands the Clock house adorned with the Celestial Signs gilt thereon with the Sun and Moons monethly ingress into them most exactly wrought and painted Neer the Steeple is a sumptuous Palace built in this Age after the Ionick and Dorick fashion which reaches even to the Church of Sain Geminian which for the excellency of the Marble Statues Casements Cornishes Frets and other ornaments together with the most incomparable Architecture gives not place to any palace of Italy Next is the Zecca or Mint-house built all of flint Stone and Iron Barrs without any manner of Timber Annexed thereunto Stands the Library which had its Original from Petrarca and was afterwards aggrandized by the Cardinals Niceno Alexandro and Grimano Lastly this Piazza is rendred so Proud and marvellous by the Uniformity of Building and other Imbellishments that I cannot say all Europe affords its like The Island Muran must next be visited by taking Gondola or Boat which for its Furnaces of Glass is much admired through the World This Island is distant from Venice about a Mile and was begun to be inhabited by the Altinati and Opitergini for fear of the Hunnes At present 't is very comely and resembling Venice as well in the structures as in the Quantity of Churches but much more pleasant and delightful in respect most of the Houses have open and spacious Gardens set with all sorts of fruitful Trees Among others is the Church of Saint Peter with a Monastery belonging to the preaching Fryers well built wherein is a famous Library full of good Books In this Place they make all sorts of Vessels of Glass called Crystal Glass whose variety Workmanship surpass all others of the same materials of the whole world And the Artizans except in excellency of the materials every day find out new Inventions to make them appear more desirable with works divers from one another I will not speak of the variety of colours which they give thereunto because 't is so marvellous that I imagine it worthy all Peoples sight They counterfet excellently several things of Agate Calcidonian Emerald and Hyacinths with other pretty Toyes so excellently that I believe were Pliny to be revived and should behold them he would admiring them much more praise these mens workmanship and these artificial things than he does the vessels of Earth made and burned by the People of Aretini or of any other Nation Opposite to the Piazza of Saint Mark and about half a mile dista●…t is seen the Church of Saint George the Greater a stately structure of Marble In which is beheld most curious Marble both in the Pavements and in the Statues with rich workmanship of Silver and most sumptuous Sepulchres of Princes The Fryers of Saint Benedict have here a noble Monastery wherein are long open Galleries spacious Courts ample eating-Rooms and sleeping-Chambers as also most pleasant Gardens with a worthy Library In Venice are seventeen Rich Hospitals with a great number of wealthy Churches adorned with the exactest marble Stone consisting of sixty seven Parish-Churches fifty fower Convents of Fryers twenty six Monasteries of Nunns eighteen Chapels six Schools kept within the Principal Fryeries or Monasteries In all which Churches are fifty bodies of Saints one hundred forty and three Organs many Statues made at the cost of the Republick in remembrance of illustrious Persons which have valiantly fought for her or done some other signal piece of service that is to say 165 of Marble and 23 of Brass among which most worthily presents it self That proud Statue on Horseback wrought with Gold of Bartolomeo Coglione the most famous Captain-General of the Venetian Army dedicated to him by this Republiek before the Church of Saint John and Paul in testimony of his Fidelity and Valour Moreover there are fifty six

the Jubile Moreover the Jewish synagogue had its Jubile every 50. yeers so that if for no other reason at leastwise that the Synagogue might not appear richer then the Church t was fit that she should likewise have a Jubile every fifty yeers Urban the sixth reduced it to thirty three yeers for the increase of the Church treasure afterwards to be disposed of by Saint Peter and his successors on the like occasions But last of all Paul the second reduced it to every 25th yeer and so Sixtus the fourth his successor observed it as in like manner have all following Popes done T●…e which we must believe was made for many considerations and chiefly for these for that the world as it grows old becomes worse both in quantity and quality of Life so that through the thousand dangers which alwaies threaten life and through the infinite Sins wherein many Creatures are involved it hath appeared good to reduce the time of Remission to a shorter time whereby to offer frequent invitations to all to accept the spiritual Medicine of Redemption of so great vertue and to fly the works of iniquity As to what appertains to the name t is to be observed that it may be called in Latin Jobileus Iobileus of which the last is least used notwithstanding that by the vulgar t is more frequently called Giubileo than otherwise This word is not derived from Giubilo which signifies Mirth and content although in truth it ought to be a yeer of rejoycing but from the hebrew word Jobel wich is as much as to say a Trumpet or Sacbut for that the Israelites the seventh month before the fiftieth yeer used to proclaim the yeer of Jubile with the sound of Trumpets furt hermore the Hebrew word Jobel also signifies remission and beginning the proper actions for the yeer of Jubile for then the Jews remitted all debts and returned all things to their first state The Pope cannot concede greater indulgences then those which are granted in the yeer of Jubile for then they open the treasury of the Church and bestow on every one as much as is absolutely necessary for him pardoning to him sins and penances as well imposed as not imposed freeing of him wholly and absolutely from purgatory yea although he should have forgottē his mortal sins in his confession or that he should not have confessed the Venial sins for t is not of necessity to make cōfession of Venial sins although such must suffer pains in purgatory for them if they be not in some way cancelled in this world in such manner that the soul that in that time shall part from the body doth instantly fly to enjoyment of the selicity of Paradise Our Jubile hath certain ●…imilitudes with that of the Jewes for that they proclaimed the yeer before so do we ours That they published in the Piazza●…s we ours in the Churches that they with Trumpets we ours with the voice of the Preachers In that they left the Land unmanured ours by the merits of Christ and his Saints supplies our Labour in that Servants became free in ours we acquire spiritual liberty with pardon of sins and penances in that they redeemed their Credits in ours we receive pardon for our offences in that sould possessions returned to their first Patrons in ours our crimes being cancelled the power and virtue of the soul is vivi●…ied in that banished persons returned to their Countrey and in ours who departs this life immediately ascends to the heavenly Countrey Boniface the eighth opened the doors of the Church Vaticano and bestowed most ample indulgences of all sins Clement the sixth added the doors of the Church Lateranense ordaining as is above declared Paulus the second afterwards added Santa Maria Maggiore and San Paolo in the Via Ostiense for visitation Gregory the 13th in anno 1575. ordained that who would participate the grace of the Jubile should first communicate in the yeer of Jubile allplenary indulgences are understood to be suspended with certain mutations of words of which the Authors treating on the Jubile speak to that purpose The Hebrews proclaimed their Jubile the 10th day of the seaventh moneth of the forty and ninth yeer Ours we publish on Ascention day in the yeer preceding the twenty fifth yeer upon two pulpits in the Church San Pietro reading the Popes Bull in Latin and the vulgar We begin our Jubile on the Vigil of the birth day of our Lord in the evening when the Pope with great solemnity opens the door of the Church San Pietro which at all other times stands continually walled up and he causeth the Lords Cardinals at the same time in the same manner to open the doors of the other deputed Churches all which doors the yeer ended are again shut up In the holy yeer that is to say the Jubile resort so great concourse of People from all Countreys to Rome that historians write that at the time of the Jubile of Pope Boniface Rome was so full of people that one could hardly pass in the City though so great and in the yeer 1505. the feet of Gregory the thirteenth in one morning were kissed by thirteen thousand persons Clement the 8th in anno 1600. would needs wash the feet of divers Prelates and other poor strangers come to the Jubile and the most illustrious Cardinals among which were Montalto and Farnese expressed great charity and humility to poor pilgrims That t is convenient to celebrate the Jubile in Rome rather then any other City is maintained by pregnant reasons Rome is the most worthy and noble of all other Cities and we therefore understand when we name Citta or City without any other appellation that it must be Rome She hath had the Empire is the head the Mistris and a compendium of the World She is full of Riches hath beauty in her Scite her Country fertility of soyl great comodiousness from the Navigation of the Tyber and the proximity of the Sea She is the common Countrey of all and in her are of all Nations and every people may there find a proper Church for their own Nation as in deed most Countreys have There Religion flourisheth more than elsewhere as appears by the infinite Priests and Fryers which there at leastwise in their diuine duties if not continually praise the Lord and pray for all There the Churches are much visited the Poor releived the virgins married and many other pious works performed worthy of perpetual memory She is a City of singular sanctity and in her are placed the most noted things appertaining to our Religion as the Manger wherein our Lord was layed at his birth the swa●…ling clothes the Cradle the garment the Coronation Robe the Crown of thorns the Nailes the Iron of the Launce the eross and the Title of Christ. In it are bodies of Apostles of Martyrs of Confessors of Virgins and infinite Reliques of Saints She is the seat of the Pope who is Prince of the Church Vicar of

Emperor of a Nymph leaning near a River judged by some to be Cleopatra and of Laocoon the Trojan with his two Sons enveloped in the twistings of the Serpents a piecemuch applauded by Pliny cut out of one entire Stone which that it might receive as excelling shapes and forms as could be carved by industry or Art Agesandro Polidoro and Asenodoro three rare Rodian Sculptors applyed their joynt Industry study pains This curious Sculpture was preserved by miracle of Fortune at the destruction of the Palace of Titus Vespasian the Emperour as also of the River Tevere or Tyber with the Wol●…e giving suck to Romulus and Remus carved out of one tire Stone and likewise the great Nilus leaning on a Sphinx on the heigth whereof stand sixteen Children denoting the sixteen Cubits of the increase of that River observed by the AEgyptians and every one of those Children is in such manner figured that it excellently describes the effect which at that rise and increase it wrought on the Land of AEgypt sa for example the sixteenth Child is placed upon a shoulder of the River with a basket of flowers and fruits upon its head and this Child signifies that the increase of the River to the sixteenth Cubit enriches the Earth to the production of great plenty of Fruit and brings gladness to it The 15th signifies that all is secure and well and the 14th brings joyfulness but all the other increases under 14. are unhappy and miserable as Pliny observes in the ninth Chapter of his fifth Book of Natural Histories and moreover some Creatures which are only proper to that Countrey with its plants called Calamo a Cane Colo Cassia AEgyptian Bean and Papiro called Papir Reed whereof they were wont to make great leaves to write on thereof was the first paper made thence as is supposed was that name borrowed which are no where to be found out of AEgypt no more than the Monsters to wit Hippotami or the Sea Horse whose Feet are like an Ox back and mayn like a Horse tusks like a Boar with a long winding tayl Ichneumoni the Indian or AEgyptian Ratt whose property is to creep into the Crocodiles Mouth when he gapeth to eat his Bowels and so kill him Trochili a Sea-foul friend to the Crocodil somewhat like to a wagtail or Sea Wood cock Ibidi the black stork a Bird in AEgypt which hath stiff Leggs and a long Bill wherewith when its sick it administreth it self a Glister of Sea Water Sciachi Land Crocodiles Crocodrili Sea Crocodiles which can only move the upper Jaw or Chaps And also the pourtraits of the Terrositi a generation of Pigmies or dwarfs incessant Men perpetual Enemies of the Crocodiles whereof Pliny in the 25th Chapter of his eighth Book of Natural Histories treats at large together with many other singular Statues in the said gardens of Belvedere which when seen thorowly examined and understood by intelligent Persons yeeld them great delight and satisfaction In the B●…th of Pope Pius the 4th is a work of great esteem being an Ocean cut out of the fairest Marble The Antients thought the Ocean to be Prince of the Waters and Father of all things a Friend to Prometheus And that by means of the humidity and liquidness of the Waters all things seem to generate from Seeds with the assistance of the Heavens therefore they believed that every thing received Life from Water with the favourable friendship of the temperat Genius of the Caelestial Bodies This figure hath the Body covered with a thin vail whereby they would signifie that the Sea shrouds the Heavens with Clouds of its own vapours meaning by the Sea the whole generation of waters and they denote the Earths being covered with plants by the Hairs beard and ordinary skinns beingall figured by the leaves of divers tender Plants It hath two horns placed upon the Forehead First because the Sea provoked by the winds roars like a Bull and secondly because the Sea is governed by the Moons motion which they called Cornuta thirdly because the Sea is called Father of Fountains and Rivers which they figured Cornuti or horned In its right hand is put the Rudder of a Ship in token that the Waters by means of the Ships being guided by these Rudders are furrowed as best likes the Pilot of which Comodity they feigned Prometheus to be the Inventor they have placed it upon a Maritine Monster to demonstrate that the Sea is generator of many wonderfull Monsters One of which to the purpose is seen in Rome in the Antique marble sphere of Atlas placed among the celestial signes upon this very occasion T is said that Andromada contending for beauty with the Nymphs of the Sea being overcome was by them given to this Monster which devoured her out of whose body slain on the shore of Perseus who would have saved that Virgin there issued so much blood that it dyed the Sea red whence that Sea was afterwards called Citreo or the Red Sea for all which the Citreo is not that gulfe which is vulgarly called the red Sea but is that part of the Ocean affianced to the Gulph which washes Arabia on the South but now to our relation of Rome The first and cheif part whereof to be visited through devotion are the 7. principal Churches and then the others in their order wherein are preserved infinite reliques of Saints and some remarkable Ones of the holy Jesus our Lord and Saviour as the the Towel of Santa Veronica with the effigies of Christ the Speer of Longinus wherewith he was run into the Breast One of those Nayls wherewith our Lord was nayled to the Cross. One of those thirty pence which as the price of Treason were given to Iudas the Traitor by the wicked Jews all which you are obliged particularly to search out as exceeding singularities not elsewhere to be found Of ROME the Old and ROME the New and of its admirable Excellencies ROME formerly the Empress of the World cannot be enough praised Her power was so great her Riches so immense her subjects so innumerable her Territories and Dominions so vast That well might Saint Hierome in his three wishes for intermixing that concerning her with so divine things be pardonable which three wishes were To have seen our Saviour in the flesh to have heard Saint Paul preach and to have seen Rome in her Glory which had so spread her self over the whole Earth that a perfect Idea of her cannot be comprehended and must needs have been the happiest sight that mortal eye could attain to But when considered what she was and how since devoured by fire by the insatiable Nero and how pillaged sacked and thousands of mischiefs done her by the Barbarous at the decay of the Roman Empire One may well wonder how the new Rome should be even emulous to exceed the Old Being at this day the Queen of Cities the Flower of Italy and as one may say an Epitome of the whole Earth

She is the Lodging for all Nations The theatre of the best Ingenuities of the World the Habitation of vertue of Empire of dignity of Fortune The Native Countrey of the Laws and of all People derivatively the Fountain of Instruction the Head of Religion the Rule of Justice and finally the Original of infinite blessings although the Hereticks Enemies of the truth will not confess it as this Author is pleased to term those of the Reformed Religion A Better nor more concise description of the glory and destruction of Rome the Old cannot be given than is in these two Verses out of an elegant Poet an English Man Roma fuit quondam Terrae Regina Marisque At nunc nec Terras nec Mare Roma regit The same Poet likewise with noe less elegancy describes the Grandeur and Eminency of Rome the New under the Popes in these two ensuing Verses Roma fuit quondam Terrae Regina Marisque Nunc mare nunc Terras amplius illa regit Rome is scituate in a Countrey sterile enough and is subject to the Sea the Winds and an obscure thick Ayr. The Circumference of Rome when in her greatest splendour was fifty miles but now though not much inferiour comparing her Ecclesiasticks and her immediate possessions with her former Empire she exceeds not thirteen miles in circuit In those days she had twenty eight spatious principal Streets which yet may be traced out and their names with great certainty set down to wit La Via Appia Tiberina Proenestina Quintia Flaminia Tiburtina Cornelia Collatina Solaria Aurelia Latina Nomentana Cimina Valeria Pormense Laurentia Claudia Gallicana Emilia Labicana Campana Setina Ostiense Pretoriana Ardeatina Cassia Ianiculense Trionfale With these were others of name that is to say L'alta Sommita upon the Monte Cavallo now called Quirinale near the Campo Martio Via Lata La Suburra near San Pietro in Vincula La Nova by the Bathes of Antonius La Trionfale near the Porta Vaticana La Vitellia contiguous with San Pietro in Montorio that is at the Gianiculo La Deta in the Campo Martio La Fornicata near to the Flaminia The Antient and Famous Gates of ROME are 15. LA Flaminia called now Porta del Popolo the Gate of the People La Gabiosa now di san Methodio La Collatina now Princiana La Ferentina now Latina La Quirinale now called Agonia La Capena now di san Paolo or Ostiense La Tiburtin●… now shut up La Portuense now Porta Ripa L'Esquilina now di san Lorenza L'Aurelia now di san Paneratio La Nevia now Porta Maggiore La Fontinale now Settimiana La Celimontana now di Sti Giovanni La Vaticana which lyes on the shore of the River Tevere Tyber Moreover the Burroughs have these ensuing Gates which were latelier made than those above named to wit Porte di Castello de Cavalli Leggieri l'Angelica la Pertusa di san Spirito now the Triumfale by which the Countrey Men were not permitted to enter The Hills comprehended within the Walls of Rome are ten viz. Il Capitolino or Tarpeio upon which were standing in the time of Tarquin more than Sixty Temples between great and small with most high Towers t was compassed with a Wall and then called the dwelling of the Gods Il Palatino or Pallazzo Maggiore all hollowed undernea●…h This at present is filled with gardens and the ruines of old structures where stood formerly many noble Fabricks as the Pallace of the Emperors the great house of Augustus of Cicero of Hortensi●… and of Cataline but now in lieu thereof is the stately and spatious Garden of the Farnezes L'Aventino now called Santa Sabina upon which was the first dwelling of the Christian Popes Il Celio which rise where now stands the Church Laterinense and Santa Croce of Ierusalem in the place of many signal Temples of the Gentiles and fair Aqueducts L'Esquelino where stands now Saint Pietro in Vincola in the stead of the houses of Virgil of Propertius and the gardens of of Mecenas Il Viminale where stands now in lieu of the old House of Crassus The Churches of Santa Prudentia and of San Lorenzo in Palesperna Il Quirinale now called Monte Cavallo where antiently flourished the Palace and Gardens of Salustius and the Houses of Catullus and Aquilius Which said seven Hills were those antient Hills in Rome whence she was denominated Settigemina Afterwards upon divers occasions these following were added Il Colle de gli hortuli or Pincio called vulgarly di Santa Trinità upon which formerly stood a Temple of the Sun where now is that round Fabrick and deep well Il Vaticano where now stands the Church of Saint Pietro and the Pallace of the Pope Il Gianicolo called Montorio where the Churches of San Onofrio and Saint Pietro di Montorio now stand Il Testaceo which is no other than great heaps of broken pieces of potters Vessels the Street and residence of those Handicrafts Men being there they cast those broken pieces which were of no use into that place which raised this Hill which Hill or heap rather of broken Vessels is near the Porta Ostiense and near it the famous Sepulcher of Cicero CHURCHES IN ROME are above 300. Churches all much frequented but of them seaven are more particularly visited through devotion To wit San Pietro nel Vaticano San Paolo in the Via Ostiense S. Maria maggiore in the Via Esquilina San Sebastiano without the Gate Capena or S. Sebastiano San Giovanni Lateranense in Monte Celio Santa Croce in Hierusalem in Monte Celio San Lorenzo without the Porta Esquilina called San Lorenzo vulgarly These five following Churches are beautifyed with noble Brass Gates San Pietro nel Vaticano Santa Maria Rotonda Santo Adriano antiently the Temple of Saturn Sauti Cosma and Damiane formerly the Temple of Castor and Pollux and San Paolo in the Via Ostiense In Rome are five principle Church yards or Burying places the first of which lies near Saint Agnese the second near Saint Pancratio the third by Saint Sebastiano the fourth by San Lorenzo the fifth by San Priscella besides which and many other smaller burying places of such primitive Christians as were marty red or dyed to this day held in great Veneration there are above twenty even now without the City In it are many Hospitals so well provided that possibly they may be reckoned the most worthy object of the modern Excellencies in Rome whereof some are Common for all Nations and all persons as L'Hospitale di San Spirito in the Vati●…n San Gioanni Laterano in Monte Celio San Gi●…como di Augusta in Valle Martia Santa Maria dell●… Consolatione in Velabro and Santo Antonio in Fsqui●…ino into any of which the infirm of all Countreys with great love and diligence are received governed and taken care of for their perfect ease and cure of their diseases The Hospitals deputed to particular Nations are these The Hospital of Santa Maria dell'Annima for the Germans and Flemings San Lodovico for the