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A90718	A late letter from the citty of Florence, vvrittem by Signor Fabricio Pisani a counsellor of the Rota, touching these present distempers of England, vvherein hee, with some of the prime statesmen in Florence give their judgments which way the said distempers may be totally compos'd. VVith som signal remarks upon the nativity of Charls the second, &c.	Pisani, Fabricio.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2283; Thomason E1013_2; ESTC R208018	5,222	14

A late LETTER From the Citty of FLORENCE VVRITTEN By Signor Fabricio Pisani a Counsellor of the Rota Touching these present Distempers OF ENGLAND VVherein Hee with some of the prime Statesmen in Florence give their Judgments which way the said Distempers may be totally Compos'd VVith som signal Remarks upon the Nativity of CHARLS the second c. LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. A Letter sent from the City of Florence Written by a Great Counsellor there touching the present Distempers of England wherein Hee with som of the Prime Statesmen in Florence passe their Judgements which is the only way to compose the said Distempers My Honored and most Endeared Patron IT is no small diminution to my former happinesse that I have not receiv'd your commands any time these two months which makes me lodg within me certain apprehensions of fear that som disaster might befall you in those new Distractions therefore I pray be pleased to pull this thorn out of my thoughts as speedily as it may stand with your conveniency We are not here so barren of Intelligence but we have weekly advice of your present Confusions and truly the severest sort of speculative persons here who use to observe the method of Providence do not stick to say that the hand of Heaven doth visibly stirr therein and that those Distractions in Army State and City are apparent Judgements from above for if one revolve the Stories of former Times as I have done many but you more he will find that it hath bin allwayes an inevitable Fate which useth to hang over all popular Insurrections to end in confusion and disorders among the chief Actors themselfs at last And we have had divers examples thereof here among us which hath caus'd us to be so long in quietnesse and peace But truly Sir give me leave to tell you that your Nation hath lost much of their Repute abroad all the World over in statu quo nunc Som do laugh at you Others do scorn and hate you And som do pitty and comiserat you They who laugh at you think you are no better than Madmen having strange Magots in your brains bred out of the fat of so long wanton plenty and peace They who scorn and hate you do it for your Sacrilege your horrendous Sacrileges the like whereof was never committed on Earth since Christianity had first a hole to put her in They who pitty you are few and We are of the nomber of Them as well in the common sense of Humanity as for the advantages and improvement of Wealth which this State hath receiv'd by your Trading at Ligorne for that Town doth acknowledge her prosperity and that she is arrived to this flourishing Estate of Riches of Buildings and bravety by the correspondence she hath had this latter Age with England in point of Commerce which yet we find doth insensibly impair evry day and I believe you feel it more Therefore out of the well-wishes and tru affections we bear unto England som of the most serious and sober'st Persons of this place who are well season'd in the World and have studied men under divers Climes and convers'd also much with Heavenly Bodies had lately a privat Junta or meeting whereunto I was admitted for one and two of us had bin in England where we receiv'd sundry free Civilities Our main business was to discourse and descant upon these sad confusions calamitous condition wherin England with the adjoyning Kingdoms are at present involv'd and what might extricat Her out of this laberinth of Distractions and reduce Her to a setled Goverment Having long canvas'd the business and banded arguments pro con with much earnestness all our opinions did concenter at last in this point That there was no probable way under Heaven to settle a fast and firm Government among you then for the Men that are now upon the Stage of power to make a speedy application to their own King their own Liege Lord and Soverain whom God and Nature hath put over them Let them beat their brains scrue up their witts and put all the Policy they have upon the tenterhooks as farr as possibly they can yet they will never be able to establish a durable standing Government otherwise They do but dance in a circle all this while for the Goverment will turn at last to the same point it was before viz. to Monarchy and this King will be restored to his Royal Inheritances Maugre all the Cacodaemons of Hell Our Astrologers here specially the famous Antonio Fiselli hath had notes to look into the horoscope of his Nativity and what predictions hee hath made hitherto of him have prov'd tru to my knowledg Hee now confidently averrs with the concurrence of the rest that the aspect of all the starrs and conjunction of the Planetts much favour him the next two yeers Nam Medium caeli in Genitura Caroli secundi Regis Angliae juxta axiomata Astrologiae Genethliacae dirigitur ad radios Sextiles Lunae Anno Dom. 1660. significat accessum ad Dominium For the Medium caeli in the Geniture of Charles the second according to the axiomes of Genethliacall Astrology is directed to the Sextile rayes of the Moon and signifies an accesse to Dominion Add herunto that a most lucky conjunction followes the same yeer in the very Centre of the said Kings horoscope betwixt Jupiter Sol in the month of September When I was employed by this State in Paris not many yeers agoe I had occasion to make my addresse to your young King and when I observ'd his Physiognomy and the Lineaments of his face I seem'd to discern in it somthing extraordinary above vulgar countenances that he carried a Majesty in his very looks and noting besides the goodly procerity and constitution of his body he seem'd to be cut out for a King Now in point of extraction and linage it cannot bee denied but he is one of the greatest born Princes that ever was in the world for whereas his Gran-Father and Father were allied only if you regard Forren Consanguinity to the House of Denmark the Guyses this King bears in his veins not only that bloud but also the blouds of all the great Princes of Christendom being neerly linked to the House of Bourbon and France to the House of Austria and consequently to the Emperour and Spaine as also to the Duke of Savoy and our Gran-Duke Moreover he is neerly allied to all the greatest Princes of Germany as the Saxe Brandenburg Bavaria the Palsgrave to the Duke of Lorain who descends in the directest line from Charlemain Add hereunto that the young Prince of Orenge is his Nephew and which is considerable hee is a pure Englishman born whereas your two former Kings were Forreners The Queen his mother is of as glorious an extraction which makes me admire the frontlesse impudence of som of your poor Pamphletors who call her ever and anon the Little Queen

notwithstanding that the world knowes Her to bee the Daughter of Henry the Great and Queen of Great Britain which Title and Character is indelible and must die with Her Hereunto may be adjoyn'd that this young King is now mounted to the Meridian of his Age and maturity of judgment to govern and doubtlesse hee is like to make a rare Governour having this advantage of all other Soverain Princes in the world to have been bredd up in the Schoole of Affliction so long to have Travell'd so many strange Countreys and observed the humours of so many Nations But to come to the Cardinal point of our Communication after divers debates alterations how England might be brought to a stable condition of tranquility perfect peace to her former lustre and glory the final result of all ended in this that ther was no other imaginable means to do it then for you to make a timely and fitting humble address unto your own King and without question it is in his power to grant you such an absolut pardon such an abolition of all things pass'd such a gracious Amnestia such Royall concessions that may extend to the security of every person for the future that was engaged in these your revolutions both touching his life and fortunes Unlesse their guilt of conscience be such that like Cain or Judas they think their Sin is greater then can be forgiven them Now the mode of your application to Him may avail much for if you chopp Logique with him too farr and stand upon Puntillios and too rigid termes if you shew your selfs full of feares jealousies and distrusts it will intangle and quite mart the businesse for in a Soverain Prince ther must be an Implicit unavoidable necessary trust repos'd by his peeple which all the Laws that mans brain can possibly invent cannot provide against Therfore if you proceed in a frank and confident tru English way you may work upon his affections more powerfully and overcome him sooner so then by any outward Arms This way will make such tender impressions upon him that he will grant more then you can possibly expect Som Forein Historians as the French Comines and our Guicciardin do cry up the English Nation for using to love their King in a more intense degree then other peeple and to regard his honor in a higher strain to support which they have bin alwayes so ready and cheerful both with their persons and purses Ther is now a fair opportunity offer'd to rake up the embers of these old affections and to recover the Reputation of tru Englishmen Ther is no peeple but may somtimes stand in their own light go astray and err for Error was one of the first frailties that were entayl'd upon Man and his posterity as soon as he was thrust out of Paradis 'T is a human thing to err but to persevere in an error is diabolical You shall do well and wisely to follow the example of the Spanish Mule who out of a kind of wantoness being gone out of the high beaten road into a by path which led her to a dirty narrow lane full of pitts and holes at last she came to the top of a huge hideous Rock where she could go no farther for before her ther was inevitable destruction and the lane was so narrow that she could not turn her body back therupon in this extremity she put one foot gently after another and Crablike went backward untill she came again to the common road This must be your course by a gentle retrogradation to come into the Kings high road again and there is no question but He will meet you more than three parts of the way If you do not truly in our opinions you will precipitat your selfs down a Rock of inevitable destruction For Heaven Earth are conspir'd to restore Him and though all the Spirits of the Air shold joyn with you you shall not be able to oppose it I presume you are not ignorant how the two great Monarks of Spain and France which may be said to be the main Poles wheron Europe doth move have comprehended him within the private capitulations of peace The Emperour hath promised to wed his quarrel and there is no Prince or State in Christendom but wold gladly reach a frendly hand to restore him being depriv'd of his birth-right and his Royal indubitable Inheritance as you your selfs confesse for observing the fifth Commandement for obeying his Father and Mother From which Birthright he may be said to have bin thrust out when he was in the state of Innocency being but in a manner a Child and very young then Now touching your selfs I will not flatter you but plainly tell you that you have not one frend any where beyond the Seas nay your great Confederate the Swed as I had good intelligence could upbraid one of your Ambassadors that are now there that He had not washed his hands clean since they had bin embrued in his Princ's bloud The time that I sojourn'd in England I was curious to read your Annals and to make som inspections into your Laws and Method of Government as also into the Genius of the peeple and I find there is no species of Government that suits better with the nature of the Inhabitants the quality of the Clime and relates more directly to the civil constitutions Laws and Customs of the Land then Monarchal The I le of Great Britain hath bin allways a Royal Iland from her very Creation from her Infancy she may be said to have worn a Crown in her Cradle and although she had four or five Revolutions and changes of Masters yet she still continued Royal whereunto alludes a saying that I observ'd in your old Records Britannia ab initio mundi semper fuit Regia Regimen Illius simile illi caelorum Great Britain hath bin from the beginning of the World Royal and her Government like that of the Heavens Therfore all these premises being weighed in the balance of tru judgment you shall do well and wisely to recollect your selfs and call in your hopeful young King whose Title your consciences do acknowledg to be unquestionable otherwise it is not only improbable but impossible for England to be Herself again and to be settled in any stable Government which may reach to posterity you may wind up your wits as high as you can you may consult with your first second and third thoughts but you will never be able to settle a fix'd Goverment you will be still at a losse your Deputies will be like a skeyn of ravell'd threed you will be in a laberinth of confusions and the end of one will be still the beginning of another To conclude the current concurrent opinion of all Ministers of State here both Forren and Florentine is that if you do not make a timely application to your King you will have all the Princes of Christendome about your ears and what a sad calamitous Country what an Akeldama will England be then Therfore if ther be a tru patriot and publick soul amongst you if ther be ever any drops of tru English bloud running in your veins or the least spark of national fire affections glowing in your bosomes toward your own dear Country prevent these imminent dangers and invite your King by discreet and moderat proposals The gallant Samnit General could tell the Romans who had over power'd them that if they gave them easy and gentle capitulations they wold perform them but if they wold tye them to too high and strict terms they wold observe them no longer then they cold have opportunity to break them Touching the affairs of Italy we are like to have a general blessed peace this side the Alpes and Lombardy who hath bin so pittifully harass'd a long time and hath had her face so often scratch'd is in a fair way to recover her former beuty Signor Giovanni Palavicino and D. Lorenzo Minuccio convey their most affectionat respects unto you and so doth Your Entire and Faithful Servant F. P. Florence this 12th of Octob. 1659. FINIS