of their charge who going easie journeys through Umbria Marca and Romagna were come to Ferrara His Holinesse made choice of this Officer of the Chamber that he by his conduct and integrity might look to the charges of the lodgings which were to be defrayed by the Chamber and see that all things were in very good order as indeed they were alwaies when directed by him And because his Beatitude was extreamly concerned that every thing should be done very splendidly and punctually his Holinesse with a Note of his hand directed to my Lord Franzoni Treasurer general gave order on the 23 of October of the year 1655 that to the said Baldocci he should cause to be paid without any limitation what money he should use and to the said Baldocci he likewise gave authority to make the reckonings even of himself without the accustomed Congregation of accounts And because the charge of Computist of the Chamber is an Office of great weight in the absence of Signior Nuntiato Baldocci aforesaid Signiore Giovanni his Brother had the place who had given many honourable and very worthy proofes of his experience in the employment of Computist of his Holinesses Souldiers in the siege of Castro and likewise in Dalmatia in that of Collateral for the souldiers which warred for the Republick of Venice against the Turke where he was four years exercising besides for two years together the Paymasters place in the absence of the other The said Baldocci as a Minister very zealous for his Holinesses good service arriving at Civita Castallana took Post and rode in great haste to speak with all the Legates and Governors of the places appointed for her Majesties lodgings presenting to them the Popes note aforesaid as likewise the letters of the Secretary of State and the Lord Treasurer general with leaving money every where according to their need and adding by word of mouth what seemed to him fit for a businesse of that nature and wholly agreeable to his Holinesses intention and thus he did all along to Ferrara whither he came six dayes before the arrival of the Nuntii and just in a time when they had not the least information that the Queen was departed from Inspruch insomuch as the time was commodious for preparing of all things for her Majesties reception To Ferrara came likewise opportunely the Coach sent by his Holinesse the Litter and Chaire with the Quartermasters and Harbenger for ordering of the lodgings with two noble beds both alike with Chaires of the same to the end that her Majestie should lye all the journey in her usual beds and one might go before unto the other lodging The cloath of state the carpet and many other things were sent from Rome even the table to eat on the gilt furniture of the Cup-board with divers other Officers all under the command of Baldocci While the Queen staid in Inspruch there arrived the Baron Giovanni Georgio di Fermiano a Gentleman of great spirit and parts dispatcht from the Prince Charles Emanuel Madruzzi the Bishop of Trent and Count of Chiullant to invite her to that City with expressions of obsequiousnesse and respect Her Majesty seeming to like the invitation replyed with her accustomed civility that her passage was granted her by the Republick of Venice with this expresse condition that she should not stay in Trent nor Roveredo and therefore she could not have the honour of his invitation The Baron soon informed the Prince of all who very desirous to serve her in his state sent back without delay a Courier with letters to the Embassadour Pimentel to Don Antonio della Cueva to Count Montecuccoli and my Lord Holstenius entreating them to use their authority with her Majesty for obtaining his desire in order to her lodging in Trent since the supposition of the plague was most false they enjoying perfect health in that City These Gentlemen employed themselves joyntly to comply with the said Princes desire and the Baron of Fermiano had a very courteous audience of the Queen in Bolgiano where he reinvited her receiving this answer from her Majesty that out of the confidence she promised her self she could have in the kindnesse of the Prince though she had not been invited by him she would have invited her self but that the forementioned oppositions to her great displeasure were her hinderance yet that howsoever she was much obliged to the courtesie of the Prince The Baron advised him of all and he with greater vigour persisting in his courteous earnestness the shortness of the time not permitting him to write unto Venice wrote incontinently to the Governours of Verona to have leave to lodge her Majesty in Trent But doubting in the mean time he should not have a favourable answer or if it were favourable it would come too late he gave order again to the Baron aforesaid if he could not have the honour of receiving her Majesty in Trent to procure she would be pleased at least to accept of some refreshing in the town of Lavis the last of the Dioces of Trent and which divides the confines of Italy from those of Germany The Baron performed every thing with his powerful endeavours and the Queen was contented to accept the oblation The Queen departing from Bolgiano on the thirteenth of the month lay at Egna that night a town not long before with another place called Salorno bought by Signior Zenobi di Verona a Nobleman of Venice Here arrived a Courier from the Duke of Mantoua with letters to her Majesty to invite her to that City His Highness had sent to that end the Marquess Andreasi Captain of his guard but because the passages were shut he had been constrained to stay at Volargna a village belonging to Verona a little way distant from Chiusa which is a narrow passage and strong where there is a constant Garrison of souldiers and albeit the Queen refused his invitation excusing her self that she could not go out of the way she going directly to Rome and was not then certain where she should have leave to passe by the Venetians yet she reserved her self to accept of his favour in case she should passe through his Highnesses dominions On the fourteenth her Majesty came to Lavis before fifteen houres and there in the name of the said Prince of Trent she was again invited to stay at least and dine in that City since they had gotten leave from Verona to receive her The Queen then resolved to accept the invitation and went the next morning to Masse in the Cathedral Church and dined in the Palace Madruzzo a very pleasant place called Belvedere which was a Musquet shot without the town At four houres in the night she resolved to dine there the next day so as they immediately sent the Prince notice of it who to his great content understanding the good news caused all things to be presently prepared for the splendid reception of so noble a Princesse
a good correspondence with the neighbouring Princes that the Genius and Interest of her Majesties Successour would not be the same who probably at his entrance into his principality would have the ambition to make ostentation of his valour and foment his Commanders desires To convince her understanding and divert her from so great a resolution many of the knowing'st and zealousest Ministers whom her Majestie did the honour to trust with her design of renouncing her Kingdom but not with her change of religion advanced so far to presage unto her unlucky events but nothing could retain her in her motion which she urged with all speed Now all things appertaining to that renunciation were in readiness and nothing was wanting but to solemnize it with those publique functions requir'd in such Cases Many Feasts being therefore now made together with tiltings for a happy prediction of the new Kings Coronation in the end on the 17th of January 1654 they brought it to a period The Prince Palatine would have had it deferr'd till the following July while his cloaths and other things becoming the magnificence of this unusuall spectacle were prepar'd But the Queen admitting no delay prevented these demurs with all diligence while each little minute seem'd too long to her for the the finishing her secret intentions She therefore came out of her lodgings that day about nine of the clock in the morning and appear'd in the great open gallery of the Court accompany'd by the Senate and the Grandees of the Palace She wore a stately robe embroyder'd with Crowns of gold and with a comly gravity walking up and down among a great company of Gentlemen and other who out of curiosity came to see so renown'd and unusuall a function sate down in a chair under a Canopy of Silver nobly wrought and adorn'd Here the Lord Zchering Rosemâ—hain a Senatour of the Kingdom read with a loud voice the instrument of donation which her Majestie made to the said Prince Charles Gustavus Palatine and a Patent in which the new King engag'd to the said Queen three Islands and diverse revenues issuing out of Pomerania with other regalities to the yearly value of two hundred thousand crowns Her Majestie accepting the writings rose up and taking the Crown from her head deliver'd it to the Earl Peter Bracch great Praefect and principall Senatour of the Kingdom The Scepter Sword Globe of gold and a Key she consign'd to four great Personages and Ministers of the Kingdom to wit to Count Gustavus Horn Generall of the Militia to Count Gabriel Oxerstern to Count Oxerstern great Chancellour and Count Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie great Treasurer The Queen had nothing left to put off but the royall Robe and she seeing that those to whom it belonged deferr'd to unty it unty'd it her self and in throwing it down sported with her maids of Honour and was pleasant with them while there was not any one in so great a number of persons that could forbear weeping to see this so generous action of the Queen to whom the hearts of all paid the tribute of duty and affection The royall robe being depos'd she was begirt with a very white garment and here with a majestique affability turning towards the Nobility and people with a loud and clear voice and great freenesse of mind pray'd a quartern of an hour with such efficacy and sweetnesse that all remaining equally dazled with the splendour of so much vertue and soften'd with the pleasantness of the manner had such an affection as admits not of comfort nor receives moderation After this with a long and most prudent discourse she advertis'd the new King of many things appertaining to the Kingdoms good Government and affectionately recommended to him the Queen her Mother her Friends and all her Subjects whom she loved so firmly and so she return'd to the very same room whence she came leaving all the people in the darknesse of confusion and bitternesse of sorrow for the losse of that Sun which so long had govern'd them with the influence of his rayes The Prince Palatine two hours after was conducted to the Cathedrall by the Arch-Bishop of Upsalia where he was anointed King and receiv'd the royall ensignes and the next day after the solemn oath was given him by all the four Orders of the Kingdom In these solemnities severall sorts of money of gold and silver â—ere scatter'd up and down as well by the Queen as the King Those by the King had his Picture on the one side and the words Carolus Gustavus and on the other a regal-Crown with these words a Deo Christina Those by the Queen had her Picture on the one side and on the other a Crown with these words Et sine Te. The day after the usuall Oath of loyalty being perform'd to the King by the States the Queen visited and honour'd by all departed from Upsalia towards Stockholm The King accompany'd her to the Mannour of Merstad which is half the way and all the Senatours Gentlemen and chief Ladies of the Court waited on her to Stokholm where she stay'd three daies Here all desired to see her and to be seen by her who receiv'd them with such courtesie and kindnesse that they there made discovery of the pleasure she took to leave them all mindfull of her vertues and government She had made them believe she would go live in the Island of Holland fifty leagues distant from Stockholm in the fair Castle there with a great Park of Deere where the Kings were accustom'd to retire for their pleasure With this report she departed from Stockholm three hours after the setting of the Sun She would depart by night not to see their affections and tears who apprehended the want of so great a Queen and so good a Mother Yet from the royall Palace to the gate of the City the concourse of the people was great but the affliction much greater which oppressed their senses every one as immoveable and mute with their eyes cast down on the earth giving to understand a weighty sorrow hath neither tears nor sighs sufficient to expresse it The King had sent the greatest part of the Court to accompany and attend her among whom were the Lord Charles Soop a person of great quality with the charge of high Steward the Lord Tersen Gentleman of the Chamber and of much desert and vertue with six other Gentlemen of his Majestie all of noble families and merit the Lord Vlifeldt great Master of Denmark retyr'd long since into Swedland under his Majesties protection the Senatours Earl Todt and Baron Lind with Eal Donoau Lievetenant Colonell all three personages of high worth and eminent parts with severall others In her going out of the City she was saluted with the Artillery from the walls and the ships and as she past along the Governours of Forts and Provinces waited on her with their Souldiers She travail'd all
Legate and Bishop the Town-house the Vice-Legates and other particular Cavaliers She came in her Litter to the Pillars before the Cathedral and there did alight His Eminence Cardinal Pio the Bishop adorned with his Amice his Rochet and rich Mitre in the midst of two Canons in their Coaps going before the Crosse the Clergy and Chapter met her and she kneeling on the even ground within the chains on a cushion of cloath of gold laid on a great carpet kissed devoutly the Crosse presented to her by the Cardinal Bishop and then going before the said Crosse the Clergy and Chapter following her and last of all the Cardinal in the midst of the Canons aforesaid her Majesty went under a Canopy of silver and conducted to the gate of the Church by the secular Magistrates at what time they sang the Anthem She is beautifull c. The Cardinal Legate coming out of his coach and making a low reverence to the Queen went into the Sacristy to put off his travelling cloaths and put on his long under-garment his Rotchet c. expecting there the Cardinal Bishop At the entrance into the Church the Cardinal Bishop with the Mitre on his head taking the sprinkling brush from the Dean besprinkled the Queeen and the other there present then made a reverence to the Queen and took off the Mitre while in the mean time the Musitians began to sing the Hymne Te Deum When the first was ended the Bishop put on again his Mitre and going before the crosse in like manner and the Chapter went towards the high Altar on which was exposed the most holy Sacrament Then his Eminence went to the Epistle side and laying aside his Mitre and kneeling at the verse We threfore beseech thee c. stood up again and turning to the Queen as soon as Te Deum was ended recited the verses and prayers Save thy Handmaid c. Lord God by whose providence c. and finally standing in the middle of the Altar gave the solemne benediction and bowing to the Queen went thence into the Sacristy to put off his Ornaments and cloathing himselfe like the Cardinal Legate they came out of the Sacristy together and went both to the Queen who went alone into her coach and the two Cardinals the Nuntii and the Embassadour Pimentel in another who waited on her Majesty to the Castle and to her own lodgings The Church had the frontispiece all resplendent with torches and within was hung richly with tapestries with a kneeling place for the Queen and cushions for the Nuntii who alwayes attended on her Majesty At the gate of the hall of the Castle they found very many noble Ladies of the City most splendidly apparrelled who paid their respects and complemented the Queen who affectionately received them and afterwards retired into her lodgings where she was accompanied by the two Cardinals the Nuntii and all the retinue That night little else was effected but that all the Officers designed to look after the lodgings were not idle being employed in distributing without the least confusion to every one his chamber they whom the Castle could not hold being quartered in Palaces and particular houses in the town That night the Queen supp'd privately and was entertained with most excellent musique Couriers were then dispatched to Rome to informe the Pope of all as they did from time to time in all other places where she staid not onely in obedience to his Holinesses commands who would know what they did but likewise to receive from his Beatitude opportune informations in order to what they should do for a compleat and regal reception Her Majesty staid two dayes in Ferrara where she visited diverse Monasteries of Nuns and the remarkablest things of the City being alwayes accompanied by the two Cardinals in her Coach their Eminences sitting before and the Queen alone behinde The four Nuntii followed after as they alwayes had done in another coach and all the other Gentlemens coaches of the traine continued in a row one after another She desired to see the fortresse so famed and was much pleased with it and here she her self was assistent in discharging some pieces of artillery During these two dayes the City onely feasted and rejoyced every one endeavouring to demonstrate their gladnesse fine maskings being seen and other rare shews for the pleasing of the eys and divertisement of the senses The Queen at her entrance into the Church-dominions sent by Post from Ferrara to Rome Count Raymund Montecuccoli to complement his Holiness in her name and thanks him for all the honours his beatitude had been pleased to do her and particularly for them she had begun to receive in the state Ecclesiastical to whom she consigned affectionate letters for his Holinesse This Cavalier with the usuall vivacity of his noble and eminent parts gave a very good account of his employment and leaving the Pope highly satisfied with his function returned from thence within a few dayes to finde out the Queen in her journey and go back with her to Rome The day after her Majesty being willing to dine in publick a table was prepared with a single covering under the cloth of state but because she would honour the Cardinal Legate and Bishop by taking them to dinner with her two other coverings were brought one at the right hand and the other at the left of the table a little way distant from the upper end where the Queen was to sit each of them being under a little of the Canopy All the three coverings were in gilt baskets the Cardinal Legate sitting on the right hand the Bishop on the left and the Legate saying grace Don Luigi Pio of Savoy Prince of St. Gregory Brother to the Cardinal Bishop gave the water for her Majesties hands and assisted at the table changing the dishes after the manner of Germany Don Innocentio Conti presented her the napkin and the Marquis Hippolitus Bentivoglio was her Cupbearer and Sewer The said Prince of St. Gregory came by post from Rome to Ferrara to wait on the Queen as one who being curious of seeing the world when he had been at the Courts of Spain France Flanders Holland and Denmark passing likewise into Swedland had received there many honours of her Majesty and among other things was accompanied to Danzich by a Swedish man of war and besides had her Majesties picture set with a hundred faire diamonds a favour that generous Princesse was accustomed to shew to Embassadours of Kings and Cavaliers of eminent condition He therefore had waited upon her on the confines of Ferrara and had been received with all courtesie so as having paid her his respects he took his leave of her and returned by post to Rome to serve there her Majesty The said Prince as he is endued with a vivacity of spirit a mind truly splendid and abounding especially with the vertues and qualities which become a Cavalier of great birth so in all
Prince of Pellestrina The Colledge of the English The noble Church of Minerva The great Conquests of Gustavus King of Swedland D. THe Queens discourse with Father Macedo the Jesuits Her Majesties demand of the Generall of the Jesuits The deliberation of the States of Swedland in substituting Count Charles Gustavus Palatine King after the Queen of Swedland Politick discourses The King of Denmark endeavours to meet and receive the Queen of Swedland The differences between the Crown of Swedland and the City of Bremen The description of Munster The discourse of the Queen of Swedland with my Lord Holstenius Donavert and the quality of the Place The description of some Towns in Tirole The discourse of the Queen at a publick dinner in Ferrara The description of Ferrara The description of Bologna The description of Faenza The description of Rimini The description of Pesaro The description of Fano The description of Ancona The devotion of her Majestie at Loretto The description of Loretto The description of Recanati The description of Macerata The description of Tolentino The description of Camerino The description of Foligno The description of Assisi The description of Spoleto The description of Terni The description of Gallese The Duke of Terranuova Embassadour of Spain in Rome goes to complement the Queen in Caprarola The description of Caprarola The description of Bracciano The dispatching of the Nuntii and Baldocchi E. THe education of the Queen of Swedland The entrance of the Queen of Swedland into Bruxels The Elector Palatine waits on her Majestie and invites her to Heydelberg Her entrance into Inspruch The weighty examples with which the Queen of Swedland gives nourishment to her good inclinations Her Majesties entrance into Tyrole Her Majesties publick entrance into Rome with a solemne Cavalcata Her Majesties entrance into the Ecclesiastical state The great esteem all the Princes of Europe have of the Queen of Swedland F. FRanckfort and its description The forme of the subscription of the publick Act of the profession of the Faith made by the Queen of Swedland Figarolo and the quality of the place S. Francis of Assisi visited by the Queen The sumptuous Fountain in Piazza Navona G. THe Generall of the Jesuits sends two Fathers of the Society into Swedland Father Francis John Baptist Guemes a Dominican arrives in Swedland The Queen imparts to him her motives to be a Catholick and sends him to the Court of Spain The Duke of Glocester visits her Majestie Baron Ghirardi chief Minister of the Arch-Duke of Inspruch visited by my Lord Holstenius The wonderfull generosity of the Queen of Swedland The generosity of the Prince of Trent The Prince of St. Gregory complements the Queen H HAmbourg and its description The Honours done to the Queen by the Landgrave of Hessen The Honours done her Majesty by the Duke of Bavaria The Honours done her Majestie by the Arch-Dukes of Inspruch My Lord Holstenius goes to Mantoua and Trent The Honours done her Majesty by the Bishop of Bressanon The Honours done her Majesty by the Duke of Mantoua in his state The Honours done her Majesty in Bologna The Honours done her Majesty in Pesaro The Honours done her Majesty in Ancona The Honours done her Majesty by the Pope The Honours done her Majesty as she passed by the Castle of St. Angelo I. THe holy inspirations of her Majesty of Swedland The instances made by the States of Swedland to the Queen The Island of Oland and the quality of the place Inspruch the residence of the Arch-Dukes of Austria The invitation made the Queen by the Baron of Fermiano in the name of the Prince of Trent The invitation made her Majesty by the Duke of Mantoua The joy in Inspruch for the profession made by the Queen of Swedland The death of Pope Innocent the tenth K. THe King of Spain writes to the Pope The King of Spain hears with great joy the pious resolutions of the Queen of Swedland and furthers them affectionately The King of Scotland visits the Queen The life and qualities of King Gustavus of Swedland his stature his remarkable sayings and conquests L. HEr Majesties letter to Pope Alexander the seventh Limbourg and its description Her Majesties letter to the Arch-Duke of Inspruch Landsperg and its Scâ—tuation My Lord Luke Holstenius dispatcht from his Holiness to Inspruch My Lord Luke Holstenius communicates to the Embassadour Pimentel the intention of his Holyness Her Majesties letter written from Inspruch to the King of Swedland Her Majesties Letter to the Prince of Trent Cardinall Barberines letter to Cardinal Rossetti The Legates a Latere dispatcht from the Pope to receive her Majesty The famous Library in the Roman Colledge M. HEr Majestie of Swedland is met by the Officers of the Duke of Bavaria Her Majestie is met by the Prince of Trent Her Majesty is met by the Duke of Mantoua Her Majesty is met by Cardinal Donghi Her Majesty is met by Cardinal Rossetti Her Majesty is met by Cardinal Acquaviva Legate of Romagna Her Majesty is met and royally received by Cardinal Homoâ—ei Legate of Urbin Her Majesty is met by my Lord Visconte Governour of Patrimony Her Majesty is met by the Duke of Bracciano Her Majesty is met at Porta del Popolo by the sacred Colledge of the Cardinals Her Majesty is met solemnely at Bruxels Father Macedo the Jesuit is dispatcht by her Majesty to Rome Father Malines dispatcht by her Majesty to the Court of Spain The marriage of the Queen of Swedland with the Princess of Holstein The manner observed by her Majesty in her government Minden and its description Count Montecuccoli dispatcht from the Emperour into Flandres to complement her Majesty The death of Maria Eleonora Queen of Swedland Count Montecuccoli dispatcht from her Majesty to Rome Father Malines the Jesuit dispatcht to discover the inclination of the Queen Madam della Cueva remains sick in Ussulengo Count Montecuccoli returns from Rome to the Queen The manner of the Queens sitting at table with the Cardinals The Monastery of St. Catharine of Siena The musical Playes acted before her Majesty in Inspruch The musical Play acted in the German Colledge N NOrdlinghen and its description The Nuntii elected by the Pope to receive the Queeen of Swedland on the Confines of the Churches Dominions The names of the Cavaliers that were the tilters in Bologna The names of the Cavaliers in the Cavalcata of the Queen The names of the Gentlemen of the Queens Academy in Rome O OBservations of importance The order of the Cavalcata of the Cardinal Legates The order of the Cavalcata of the Governour of Rome The order of the Cavalcata from the Capitol to the Bridge Molle The Order of her Majesties Cavalcata from the Vatican to the Bridge Molle The order of her Majesties Cavalcata from the Bridge Molle to the Vineyard of Pope Julius The Order of the Queens solemne Cavalcata from the Bridge Molle to the Vatican P THe progress of the Queen
in learning The great piety of his Catholick Majesty The Princes of Germany which visit her Majesty in Hambourg The pretences of the Prince of Conde to the Queen of Swedland who visits her Majesty The Princes and Cavaliers who waited on her Majesty in Antwerp Count Pontus della Garda waits on her Majesty The profession of the Catholick Faith made secretly by the Queen of Swedland'n Bruxels Ponte del lac and its description The passage of the Queen of Swedland through Cullen The passage of her Majesty through Franckfort The passage of her Majesty through Auspurge The Palace of Ambre and â—ts Sâ—â—tuation The profession of the Catholick Faith made publickly by the Queen of Swedland in Inspruch The passage of the Queen through the state of Veniâ—e The passage at Ponte Felice The preparations made for the solemne Cavalcata of the Queen The Palace Farnese the lodging of her Majesty when she went from the Vatican The Persons which depart with the Queen from Flandres towards Italy The Persons appointed to wait on the Queen in her lodgâ—ngs at the Vatican The parly of her Majesty with the Prince of Holstein The publick Act of Profession made by the Queen of Swedland in Inspruch The sumptuous Preparation in the Church of Giesu with what store of people King Gustavus past into Germany The presents made by her Majesty to the Arch-Duke and others in Bruxels The presents of a Coach Litter Chair and an ambling Nag made by the Pope to the Queen The presents made to her Majesty by his Holiness in the Palace Farnese The presents made to the Queen by Prince Panfilio Q THe qualities of Cardinal Pio Bishop of Ferrara The qualities of Cardinal John Baptist Spada Legat of Ferrara The qualities of Cardinal Donghi The qualities of Cardinal Rossetti The qualities of Cardinal Acquaviva The quality of the Family Martinozzi of Fano The qualities of Cardinal Homodei Legate of Urbin The qualities of Cardinal Rondinino The rare qualities of the Queen of Swedland The eminent qualities of the Princess of Rossano The Queen goes to the publick Consistory to kiss the Popes feet The Queens admirable wit The revenues reserved to herself by the Queen of Swedland The Queen writes to the General of the Jesuits The Queen dispatches to Rome Father Casati The Queens departure towards Flandres The Queens sudden departure from Hambourg The Queens departure from Bruxels The Queens departure from Inspruch The Queens departure from Bologna The Queens readiness to comply with the Popes desires The Queen dines publickly with the Arch-Duke of Inspruch The Queen treats with the Jesuits The Queen is visited by Count Todt The Queens royal entertainment at Landsperg by the Ministers of the Duke of Bavaria The Queens entertainment in Inspruch The Queens entertainment by the Prince of Trent The Queens entertainment by Cardinal Spada Legate of Ferrara The Queens entertainment in Imola by Cardinal Donghi the Bishop of the Place The Queens entertainment in Forli The Queens entertainment in Cesena The Queens entertainment in Rimini The Queens entertainment in Sinigaglia The Queens entertainment in Ancona The Queens entertainment in Loretto The Queens entertainment in Macerata The Queens entertainment in Tolentino The Queens entertainment in Camerino The Queens entertainment in Foligno The Queens entertainment in Assisi by Cardinal Rondinini The Queens entertainment in Terni The Queens entertainment in Gallese The Queens entertainment in Câ—prarola The Queens satisfaction in Pesaro The Queen presents her Scepter and Crown at Loretto The Queen visits her Mother The Queens journey through Denmark The Queens journey from Hambourg into Flandres The Queens Aparel The Queens eminent vertues The Queens visits the Church of St. Peter The Queen goes to the Church of St. James of the Spaniards The Queen goes to the Church of Giesu The Queen visits the Monastery of Torre de Specchi The Queen goes to St. John Lateran The Queen sees the famous reliques of S. Peters The Queen visits the Nuns of Campus Martius The Queens answer to the States of Swedland R THe Reasons and motives which incline the Queen of Swedland to change her Religion The resolutions of the Queen of Swedland to turn Catholique The resolution of the Queen of Swedland to support her resolutions by the Catholick King The renouncing made by the Queen of Swedland The return of the Queen from Upsalia to Stockholme The return of the Arch-Duke to Antwerp to complement the Queen and invite her to Bruxels The reception of the Queen of Swedland in Rutemond Prince Robert Palatine visits her Majesty The noble reception of the Queen in Rotembourg The return of Count Montecuccoli to the Queen The recreations of her Majesty in Inspruch The recreations of her Majesty in Ferrara The reception of her Majesty by Cardinal Lomellino Legate of Bologna The return of her Majesty from Assisi to Foligno The reception of the Queen in Spoleto by Cardinal Fachenetti The recreations of her Majesty in Spoleto The reception of the Queen at the Gate of St. Peters The recreations of her Majesty in the Palace of Prince Panfilio The royal lodgings in Revere S THe straight of the Sound and its description Count Stemberg sent into Swedland by the Queen The sumptuous Bridge ore the Po. The noble Scaffold erected in the Palace of the Prince Panfilio T. The noble Tilting in Bologna V. THe voyage of Father Malines and Casati Jesuits into Swedland The noble Vineyard of Prince Panfilio W WIrtzbourge and the quality of the place The Wars made by the Crown of Swedland under Queen Christina Z. Zibbery and its description FINIS The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The First Book The Argument IN this Book â—â—e described the qualities of Gustavus Adolphus King of Swedland The education of the Princess Christina his onely Daughter Her Assumption to the Crowns The form of her Government The motives and true Causes of her conversion to the Roman Catholique religion and what hath occur'd in her Majesties renouncing of her Kingdm I Write in my History the end of the life of Gustavus Adolphus King of Swedland who dy'd in the height of his fortunes in the bloody battell of Lutzen a Prince who with the fame of his valour had chain'd the affections of his subjects drawn after him the attendance of strangers and purchased veneration and respect among his enemies themselves Never any Prince was beloved so well nor so faithfully serv'd They who could not see him desir'd at least his Picture to reverence it as the Idea of Military valour He was tall of stature and of a Majestique aspect which induced in all admiration and reverence love and fear together The hue of his flesh was white and well colour'd and his hair and yellow beard render'd him so resplendent he was stiled by many the King of Gold but he hardly arriv'd to the thirty eighth year of his age His first inclination to Arms was
that she began when seventeen years old to assist at the Council of the State and in the eighteenth year being out of her minority took upon her the Government on the very same day the War against Denmark was hy the Crown of Swedland declar'd notwithstanding that against the Emperour together with his confederates was most vigorously prosecuted She alwaies made use of knowing and able persons and when any one assum'd to himself more authority than was fitting she found out a way to moderate his animosity She alone did administer all the publique affairs and determin'd them with much ease and satisfaction She alone would treat with Ambassadours and the Ministers of Princes giving audience without the Secretaries of State or any of her Councellours she her self giving answer to the propositions made her as well by her subjects as forraign Princes This Queen though young knew at the same time how to make her self feared and belov'd by her people and strangers She secretly sounding the genius and thoughts of every one so us'd them to the bridle of obedience and respect that she saw her most formidable Commanders though accustom'd at the head of their Armies to make the world affraid to conserve still in her presence a reverence accompany'd with a fearfull obsequiouness On the other side with the nobleness of her mind she still so oblig'd them with offices of such love and affability that she animating their affections encreas'd still towards her self their respect and obedience the true props of a Kingdom She beheld every writing presented her and quickly and with a clear voice recited it in it's language and with her own hand wrote usually the Orders of importance being as shy and heedy in imparting the secrets of her mind as curious and cunning in penetrating those of others She generally affected all Natitions vertue alone being only the object of her love She sought to mend the bad with severity and make the good better with favours and rewards so as 't is no wonder that honour and the rarest conditions that sute with worthy men were seen to flourish more in her Palace than in any other Court No Prince ever favour'd more lovers of vertue than this Queen her Majesty taking very great delight to discourse with knowing Persons and endeavouring to have near her the learnedst of each Nation whom she highly rewarded She had her maids of honour in the Court for decorum and her own entertainment but they never withdrew her from her studies and exercises of vertue No extreamity of weather nor heat of the Sun nor Snow Wind Tempests and Rains nor any other injuries of the season or accidents could induce her to that care of her self which was due to her royal condition She supposed great actions walk'd not well with delights and the Soul had no greater impediment in the gaining of vertues than the body bred up and foster'd in them labour exercise sobriety and vigilance she counting as parts of her strong and vigorous mind The glorious enterprizes which seconded the felicity of her Majesties invincible arms are already eternall in Histories After eight months cruell War and the famous success of her arms she concluded a peace with his Majestie of Denmark to her great gain and honour and afterwards establisht that of Germany not without great advantages to Swedland and then too when she thought it convenient for the ends which she aim'd at in her mind She hath made renoun'd and famous the City of Stockholm with the rule of her directions and the happy remembrance of her government she having nothing more in her thoughts than the causing her Kingdom to abound with arts and wealth Her Throne was the Theater of Glory and Justice no Princess being ever beheld of so free a mind and a courage so undaunted But she thought in the mean time of her great retreat towards Heaven that she might not repent she had been in the World As her great and noble parts did charm the hearts of all that treated with her to the fame of them flying with speed to the most remote Nations produc'd soon the usuall effects of curiosity calling many of the curious and most knowing out of Italy and France to admire her 'T is impossible to express the Civility and Courtesie with which she received every one and particularly her great liberality in gratifying caressing and rewarding the vertuous All the Princes in Europe amaz'd at her famous prerogatives either in their own Persons or else by their Agents endeavour'd to reverence and serve her To her great and conspicuous endowments nothing was wanting but the light of true Religion but Heaven not suffering so beautifull a soul and so good a mind to wander in the darkness of falsehood was so kind to her in his influence to cause great and wonderfull effects Divine grace awaken'd her searching understanding and Heavenly inspirations began to alarum in her mind the Survay of the dissonancies falshoods and untruâ—hs of the Sect she profess'd But the business was nice and she thought it not good to trust her motives to those Ministers credit whose knowledge she had formerly measur'd with more accurateness and wariness She consider'd with her self that as God was still the same so his faith was the same and the foundation of all truth insomuch that with reason he could not suffer any thing to be alter'd and dissonant in the knowledge of that Individuum which should be only one and still uniform to it self She therefore began to discover the weakness of the reasons which Luther and others sustain'd their new opinions and fallacie with and began to discern that the sacred Scripture understood and respected with that Purity and Candour with which 't is received and taught in the Catholique Church furnisht her with clearest arguments to convince their untruths She perceiv'd some sacred books were refus'd by the followers of Luther for no other cause but their own meer capticiousness and only for condemning their errours That of those they retain and have in such esteem the greatest part they alter adulterate and falsifie and so variously interpret that 't is not any wonder amongst such dissentions confusions resembling so many Hydra's head innumerable Sects are multiply'd and produc'd yet all disagreeing and contrary to one another Nay that now the word of God was so vilify'd that each foolish tradesman or ignorant woman durst shamelesly interpret the highest mysteries of the faith which hardly the most knowing and most sublime wits understand That the Sects did encrease or decrease as assisted and fomented here on earth yet faith is a rare gift of Heaven insomuch as the followers of novelties having nothing of assurance nor probably the true sense t was surer to rely on the uniform and agreeing interpretation of so many Saints the Catholique Church hath had in all ages for doctrine and integrity of life so renowned and eminent 'T was therefore too evident
reason to live quietly in the Catholique religion his Majesty discoursing with himself that though the said Queen was not able in publique at least she could have exercis'd in private the true faith in her own Kingdom and perhaps with more advantages to the Catholique religion especially since surrendring the Scepter unto a new King who might be of a turbulent and warlike disposition was to open peradventure the way to some of those enterprizes which in the afflictions of Christianity might cause greater dammages to the interests of Catholiques than among the applauses of the world get glory and repose to the Queen He consider'd too wisely that the things of the world have nothing that is constant but inconstancy and that women particularly notwithstanding they have courage and spirit are subject to change so as he was not able with his solid Intellect to judge securely of a single appearance nor thought he it agreeable to his gravity and decorum to engage himself in any thing without sounding more fully the business and reaching the bottom of the motives from which a resolution so great and so little in use was deriv'd But afterwards assur'd that many heroicall vertues and eminent parts abounded in the Queen with the motive of which she knew the world was one of those enemies that is conquer'd by flying and albeit a woman had strength to trample under her feet its forces allurements and charms and conquer her self The King was so taken with her Majesties magnanimous action that out of his most pious zeal to the honour of God and the Catholique Church he not onely with great fervour accompanied her Majesties letter to the Pope but exhibited all his protection for the journey and entire satisfaction of so noble and so vertuous a Princesse After the peace of Germany the States of Swedland having soon bent their thoughts for the settlement of the Kingdom had likewise found it necessary to provide that the Masculine succession fayling in the blood Royall some one might ascend the Throne quietly and peaceably and the rather since the recalling the suffrages of the ancient elections did not seem good to them they knowing by experience that kind of dominion as not very durable and unsafe had often been replenisht with tumults and calamities whereupon they unanimously agreed that her Majesty pleasing her self with a husband that was not of a different religion nor suspected by the States should establish in her Progeny the security of succession They therefore made severall instances to the Queen and often sollicited the effect of their desires The Queen who in her mind had greater designs making use of the pretence of being unwilling by marriage to subject her own liberty to any declar'd that as she had been born free so she likewise would live and die free She boastingly said all the Kingdoms of the world were a price below the value of liberty which onely was the pretiousest Gem in her Crown That she knew the chast wits were still the most vigilant most lively and the fittest for all things which require understanding spirit and prudence The States seeing her firm in resolving not to marry pretended at least to appoint her a Successour to the end that she fayling there might be no difficulty in a new Kings election And because whatsoever we can most of all wish for in a Prince consists in his valour his prudence and goodness in the meeting of all the four Orders of the Kingdom the qualities and parts of the most conspicuous personage being maturely examin'd all gave their votes and applauses to the foresaid Prince Charles Gustavus Palalatine as one who descending by Birth from Emperours and Kings and having till that time commanded the Swedish Amies had given in all occasions great experiments of his valour and prudence Besides he being passionately belov'd by the people and souldiers could desire no clearer arguments of his merit for his exaltation to the Crown establisht in his Person by his substitution in the Kingdom if Christina should fail Some Polititians divulged to meddle in their discourses with so great an affair the Queen was not pleased the gate of dominion should be opend to this Princes desire since this being the most sensible of humane affections and that which soonest toucheth the quick they might see again acted on the Stage the offences of those times in which many men thinking nothing to be villanous and wicked have trampled under foot to compasse soon their ends all respects obligations honour and conscience But the said Polititians have fail'd in the conceit which perhaps they imagin'd their discourses would have rais'd while that they measur'd her Majesties thoughts and resolutions with their own ordinary rule of the interest of State The Queen's designs had solider motives and deeper foundations She sought to gain a Kingdom where Angells inhabit and therefore lost that willingly where men have their residence The Queen could not erre in the reason of State who secur'd to her selfe that of God She labour'd to know God in true greatnesse and felicity and God made himself known to her by giving her judgement and vigour to seek what few did desire and to despise that which all covet after For what concern'd humane reputation and glory she had learnt she could not better make happy and prolong the short periods of her life than with the report of one of the most glorious resolutions that had ever been heard She therefore very charitably and freely agreeing to surrender her Scepter to the foresaid Prince Palatine contrived a way with which without discovering her thoughts she frankly might renounce the possession of those States which were no longer hers because by her Majesty exchang'd for those of Heaven She thought that she had not the lustre of any vertue while she sate on that Throne which was not illustrated with the splendour of true faith The Queen lov'd God and therefore could no longer love the world To mount to the greatnesse of Heaven 't was necessary she should fall from the height of terrestriall felicity This her Majesties resolution discovered to some she most trusted it seem'd strange to them she would abandon voluntarily the dominion of a Kingdom than which there is not any thing more desired on the earth as in the change of a Prince both the Cities and Inhabitants are oftentimes subject to hurtfull alterations so with the apprehension of future events and the want of the happinesse they enjoy'd they particularly were troubled and discontented and labour'd to remove her from that her opinion with very strong reasons and resembling the quality of the matter of which they discours'd They knew the new Kings â—enius and the martiall inclinations of his Captains so as they were â—ffraid it might prove one of those punishments which with the appearance of a blessing is cast upon them whom God will chastise They doubted though the Queen loved peace and
gone by he was much displeased he had been prevented by her Majesties great diligence it troubling him extreamly he could not comply with his duty towards a Princesse of so great desert and condition and so cordially respected by him The end of the first BOOK The History of the sacred and Royall Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Second Book The Argument THe Queen goes into Flanders and comes to Antwerp There she staies The Arch-Duke and others send to complement her The Earl of Buquoy goes thither in the name of his Catholique Majesty After the retreat of the Spanish Camp from the Siege of Arras the Arch-Duke comes to Antwerp to visit her the Prince of Conde doth the same the Duke of Lorraine the Earle of Fuensaldagna and the Grandees of the Court and Army together wâ—th other Princes Earle Raymund monte Cuccoli dispatcht from the Emperour comes for the same Purpose Don Anthony Pimentel is sent unto her by the Catholâ—que King with the title of extraordinary Ambassadour and stayes with her Majestie The Arch-Duke invites the Queen to Bruxells where she is royally received she makes secret profession of the Catholique religion She received advice of the death of the Queen her mother Pope Innocent the tenth dyes Alexander the seventh is assur'd to the Papacy with an universall applause The Queen soone imparts unto him her resolutions and designes She departeth from Bruxells Her Majesties journey to Inspruch While her Majesty stayd at Hambourg diverse Princes and great Lords of the Countreys thereabouts came thither to visit her and with others Prince Christian of Mechelbourg the Duke of Brunswick the three Brothers the Dukes of Lunebourg whose Sister is Queen of Denmark Frederick Landgrave of Hessen with the Princess his Wife sister to Charles the now King of Swedland together with the two Princes Francis Albert and Gregory John of Saxony Lavenbourg The Queen received them all with great courtesy yet privately treated with them as conceal'd Earl Benedict Oxensterne came likewise from Wismar the place of his government to waite upon her Majesty and Generall Koningsmark from Staden in the Bishoprick of Bremen where he was Commander in chief The Landgrave of Hessen on the thirtieth of Iuly gave the Queen a stately feast without the City in a Villa call'd Vanspek All the Princes then in Hambourge were invited thither likewise where they were very merry after supper the Queen returned to Hambourg the gate being open'd for her by order of the senate for the guarding of which till her Majestie was entred the principall Citizens stood in armes and there finding all things convenient for her journey without taking leave of any one she desiring to go more concealed than ever she departed after midnight accompany'd by the Earle of Stemberg Signior Wolfe Gentleman of the Chamber and three Groomes reapparalling herself in mans cloathes She remanded into Swedland the senatour Soop and Earle of Donoau the Countess of Shemberg and the rest remained in the City with order to follow her the next day after and to be at a set time in Amsterdam every one having liberty to take what way he found most convenient for the passages at that time were unsafe by reason of the war between the City of Bremen and the Swedes whom they of the said City endeavoured to expell out of the lands they had seiz'd and possessed in these parts That senate pretended the said holds as members of their juridiction were unjustly detained by the Crowne of Swedland The Swedes refused to quitt them alleadging they were in the province of Bremen but not of the Diocess of that City In the meane time the Citizens of Bremen being armed on the suddaine and assailing the said lands obliged the Swedes to retreat but the King of Sweden afterwards sending thither with his forces the Generally Strangel and Stemboth they not onely recovered the said holds but reduced those of Bremen to surrender them free to Swedland and repaire their losses with a great summe of money On the first day of August at night her Majestie departed from Hambourg and lodged in a Village call'd Bardwick in Westphalia in the jurisdiction of the Duke of Lunebourg She tooke this unfrequented way though there were two other more commodious and more beaten to passe the more secure and unknowne On the second she lay in Rodembourg a little Towne of the said Duke of Lunebourg on the third at the Village of Barembourg and on the fourth at Mindem a strong and considerable City seated on the river Wesser the chiefe of that Province The day after she went to Osnabruck a great and famous City for the meeting there lately of the plenipotentiaryes and ministers of the Protestant Princes for the treatyes of the generall peace of Germany belonging to the Bishop the soveraigne Prince of that place On the sixth she Came to Munster a City renown'd for the conference and peace aforesaid established there by the mediatours and plenipotentiaryes of all the Christian Princes The next morning her Majesty before she departed desir'd to see the Colledge of the Iesuits esteem'd and lov'd by her as persons of great vertue and learning and here while her Majesty went veiwing the things of greatest Curiosity although she was knowne by one of that Company who had her picture by him which was not ill done and resembled her he observing too in her the countersignes given him by a Brother of the Society yet he made no matter of it not to hinder the pleasure she took in not being discover'd Her Majestie departing from Munster on the seventh day lay that night in the village of Ensened and on the eighth at Deventer a principall fortress of the dominion of the Republique of Holland where she saw as she pass'd by one Mr. Granovius a man for his great learning much estemed by her On the ninth she went to Amesfort where arriv'd too the same day the traine of her Majestie to whom she gave order by one of the Groomes of her Chamber that without making shew of knowing her Majestie they should keep on their journey and instead of bending towards Amsterdam according to the first order go directly to Antwerp The States of Holland receiving advice that the Queen gone from Swedland came towards the low Countryes gave order throughout all their Dominions they should stand on their guardes and be ready to receive her with due honours Bun her Majestie pass'd through Deventer Amesfort Vtrecht and other places without being knowne though she was expected every where there On the tenth at night she lay in a Village near Gorcum and passing the next day through the towne indifferently strong on the river Wahal she came to Breda a fortresse as famous in Brabant as renown'd in the warres past on the twelfth of August she ended her journey in Antwerp entering there privately and lodging in the house of Don Garzia Doyliano a Portugese
horsemen full of chief Ladies and the rest of the Queens Court. At the entrance into the City she was welcomed with the discharging of fifty pieces of Ordinance many Mortarpieces and thick Squadrons of Musqueteers who wiâ—h many other Souldiers stood in ranks in the streets the houses being adorned wiâ—h rich furniture and the concourse of people very great Her Majesty was lodged in the Arch-Dukes Palace his Highnesse accompanying her to the lodgings designed her where he presently left her to her rest But the Citizens in the darknesse of the night made every where resplendent with bonefires the joy and content of their hearts for having with them a Princesse of so high a condition The End of the Second Book The History of the sacred and Royal Majestie of Christina Alessandra Queen of Swedland c. The Third Book The Argument THe Pope receiving advice of the Queens departure from Bruxells towards Italy declares foure Nuntii to receive her on the confines of the Churches Dominions His Beatitude dispatches to her my Lord Luke Holstenius She continues her journey through Germany Holstenius arrives in Inspruch where her Majestie is royally received There she makes publick profession of the Catholick faith performed with great solemnity She departs from Inspruch with great satisfaction She arrives at Trent and is magnificently served by the Prince the Bishop She passes through the State of Venice and is regally received in the Territory of the Duke of Manrova She departs thence and enters the Churches dominions AS soon as the Pope had advice of the Queens departure from Bruxells his Holinesse on the sixth of October sent for my Lord Luke Holstenius principal Apostolical Notary Canon of St. Peters Church and Keeper of the Vatican Library a person very famous for his learning and erudition and a Gentleman of the City of Hembourg To him he imparted the purpose he had of sending him to be assistant at the profession of Faith his Holinesse understood should be made by the Queen ere she came into Italy or at least into the Churches Dominions He therefore gave him order to prepare with all diligence for his journey and when his Beatitude had declared four extraordinary Nuntii to receive her on the confines of the Ecclesiastical State to wit my Lord Hanibal Bentivogli Arch-Bishop of Thebes my Lord Torreggiani Arch-Bishop of Ravenna my Lord Carraccioli Dean of the Clark of the Chamber and my Lord Cesarini Clark of the Chamber persons of great vertue and nobility he consigned them their instructions and two briefs each of which was to them of the following tenor To the Reverend Bretheren Hanibal of Thebes and Luke of Ravenna Arch-Bishops as also to our beloved Sonnes Mr. Innico Carraccioli and Philip Cesarini Clarkes of our Apostolicall Chamber Alexander the VIIth Pope REverend Brethren and beloved Sons Greeting and Apostolicall benediction Your approved wisdom in acting affairs and singular faithfulnesse and devotion to us and the Apostolicall Sea with other deserving vertues accompanied with the noblenesse of your Families with which we know you manifoldly adorned by the Lord are the cause we use gladly your help in a businesse of great weight firmly hoping in the Lord that in the execution thereof you abundantly will satisfie our expectation Wherefore through our Apostolicall authority by vertue of these presents we create constitute and depute you extraordinary Nuntii of us and the Sea Apostolâ—call aforesaid to receive in the name both of us and the same Apostolicall Sea our most dear Daughter in Christ Christina the Illustrious Queen of Swedland in her journey to this our renowned City any thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Dated at Rome at St. Maries the greater under the ring of the fisher on the XXIXth day of October 1655. In the first year of our Papacy G. Gualterius On the 10th of October in the evening the Breifs with the letters and instructions were consignd'd to my Lord Luke Holstenius by my Lord Julius Rospigliosi Arch-Bishop of Tarsus Secretary of state to his Holiness One of the Breifs was for the Queens Majestie which by us shall be register'd in it's place the other for their Highnesses the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand the Arch-Duchess Charles the second Duke of Mantoua the Prince the Bishop of Trent and the Bishop of Bâ—essanon On the 10th then of October the foresaid Holstenius departed from Rome with all secresy accompany'd by order of the Pope with Father Mâ—lines the Jusuit a man of great ability and withall well inform'd of the Genius as well of the Queen as her Court he haveing been in Swedland as aforesaid for a while with particular satisfaction to her Majestie He arriving in Bologna on the 19th of October had advice that the Queen was at Franckfort on the 6th so as fearing she might get to Inspruch before him he resolv'd to send before him by post as he did the said Father Malines to the end at all adventures he might beseech the Queen to be pleas'd to stay in Inspruch till he came Conferring in Bologna with Cardinall Lomellino the Legate he consigned to him the Popes Breif of the following tenor To our beloved Son Cardinal Lomellino of the holy Church of Rome Legate of Bologna OUr beloved Son greeting and Apostolicall benediction Our beloved Son Luke Holstenius of our houshould principall Apostolicall Notary Canon of the Church of St. Peter and Keeper of our Vatican Library is going into Germany to act by our command affairs of high concern appertaining to this holy Sea whom as famous for his piety as his various and solid learning and esteemed by us for his faithfulnesse if you shall with all courtesie receive you will do a thing worthy of our love towards you and becomming your own inclination to such men And we impart to you our Apostolicall benediction Given at Rome at Saint Maries the greater under the ring of the fisher on the 10th of October 1655. in the first year of our Papacy Natalis Rondininus He went afterwards to Mantoua on the 21th but found not there his Highness who was gone to Casal The same evening he visited her Highness the Dutchess Mary in the Monastery of S. Vrsula but told her not the business that carry'd him into Germany for her Highness haveing many Nunns about her and being thick of hearing he could not tell her of it without speaking loud and discovering it to many other persons there present Here the Marquis Octavius Gonzaga gave him a particular relation of what had past in Franckfort about the Queens journey and her traine and he quickly sent the newes of it to Rome and to the Cardinall Legates He going thence to Trent arriv'd on the 24th and waited on the Prince the Bishop presenting to him the Apostolicall Breife the contents of which were To our Reverend Brother the Bishop of Trent Alexander the VIIth Pope REverend Brother greeting and Apostolicall benediction
subscribed I Sâ—gâ—smond Francis Arch-Duke of Austria Bishop of Auspurge c. have been a witnesse and subscribed I Don Antonio Pimentel de Prado Embassador of the Catholick King have been a witnesse and subscribed I Luke Holstenius Canon of Saint Peters in Rome have received this Profession and sâ—bscribed Which were likewise afterwards authenticated with the Act of a publick Notary and with the legality of the Arch Dukes Records in the following form In the name of Christ Amen In the year of our Lord 1655. and the eighth indiction on the third of November in the first year of the Papacâ—e of our most holy Father in Christ Alexander the seventh at Inspruch in the Dioces of Brixia about noone in the Arch-Dukes Church of the holy Crosse before the high Altar the most noble Lady Christina Queen of Swedland personally there present freely and delâ—berately on her knees with a clear voice before the above-written witnesses required thereunto in the face of the Church and touching the holy Gospells pronounced this subscribed profession of the Catholick faith Which Profession of faith being ended the most illustrious Queen and Right Honourable and most reverend Lord Luke Holsienius Canon of Saint Peters in Rome and one of the houshold and continual attendance at the table of our most holy Father in Christ very favourably required of me the Notary under-written that in order to this businesse I would make one or more publick instruments in perpetual remembrance of the thing And because I undernamed publick Notary was present with the witnesses at the publick profession of the Catholick faith made by the most illustrious Queen Christina c. and received by the most Reverend Lord Holstenius in the name and stead of the Roman Apostolical Sea according to the order appointed by the holy Council of Trent by vertue of his Apostolical delegation both it and the subscriptions to set dâ—wn I have both seen and heard In testimony therefore of this I have made this present publick instrument have written it with my own hand subscribed and published it and with the usual seal of my Office of Notary being thereunto required have confirmed it Dated as above Nicholas Zerzer the Arch-Dukes Counsellor Secretary and publick Notary by Papal and Imperial authority We N. N. President Chancellor Regents and Counsellors of the Provinces of the upper Austria belonging to the most Illustrious Prince Ferdidinand Charles Arch-Duke of Austria c. do witnesse the above named Nicholas Zerzer the Arch-Dukes Counsellor and also Secretary of the Provinces of the higher Austria is a legal and authentical Notary as abovesaid and therefore to his writings and publick instruments in judgments and out here and every where a full and undoubted faith may and ought to be given In testimony whereof we here present have confirmed it with the Arch-Dukes Seale Dated at Inspruch the 8th day of November 1655. John Christopher Castner of Castenstein Counsellor to the Arch-Duke and President of the Arches Her Majesty remaining in Inspruch thought it good to write this following letter to the King of Swedland the contents of which were Dear Brother I Am happily arrived here where I found the Permission and Order of his Holinesse to declare my self what I am and have been long ago I think my self fortunate in obeying him and have preferred this glory before that of reigning o're the potent Dominions you possesse You should like my resolutâ—on though you thought it not good since to you 't is so profitable and so glorious However I protest unto you I have not at all changed the sense of the friendship I have ever had for you nor the love I owe Swedland which I will preserve as long as I live and eternally be Dear Brother Your most affectionate Sister and Friend CHRISTINA Inspruch Novemb. 4. 1655. Two houres after dinner the Queen went from Inspruch with all her attendance accompanied by their Highnesses some part of the way and waited on by the Baron of Freyberg together with all the Officers and the same train that went to meet her being alwaies very generously defrayed by that Prince to the very last confines of his state The same evening the Queen went from Inspruch Holstenius dispatcht a Courier to the Cardinal Legat of Ferrara advising him of her Majesties advance towards that place and that he might be sure she would be in the Churches dominions on the two and twentieth following In the mean time he continued in Inspruch to perfect the publick instrument of the act of Profession in the Notaries acts and here on that account he being necessitated to expect till the next day after noone he departed then likewise and overtook the Queen just as she was going out of Stersen after dinner on the tenth On the eighth at night her Majesty lay at Motera a little town of Tyrole between Inspâ—uch and the mountain Prainer and the following morning arrived there from Inspruch the Baron John George Clinig Gentleman of the Chamber to his Highnesse and Count Francis di Lodrone Gentleman of the Chamber to Prince Sigismond to visit her Majesty in the name of their Masters to enquire of her health to wish her a good journey and see if she wanted any thing Complements used by Princes among one another in like cases The Queen dispatcht presently the Lord Lilliecron Gentleman of her Chamber to Inspruch to return their Highnesses complement and thence pursued her journey going that night to Stersen a little town seated not far from the foresaid mountain of Prainer in a large space of a very fertile plain shut up on all sides by high mountains From Stersen her Majesty went to Bressanon whom the Bishop and Prince of the City my Lord Anthony Crolino met with a noble traine and lodged with all magnificence that night The day after on the eleventh having dined at Colmar a place that was halfway her Majesty arrived that evening at Bolgiano a very great Town between the mountains in the spatiousest place of the plain where the clear river Adice made navigable carries with a rapid current all the Merchandize sent into Italy from those noble Faires which are usually kept foure times a year A little before they arrived at Bolgiano a Courier came to Holstenius dispatcht from the Legat of Ferrara and the Nuntii to have an assurance of the way by which her Majesty would come into the Countrey of Ferrara to wit if through the state of Venice or of Mantoua but he being unable to give them any answer of that the Venetians having then not declared by what place they would give her leave to passe he detained the Courier till he knew their resolution The four Nuntii were departed now from Rome with Signior Fulvie Servanzii one of the Masters of the Ceremonies and Signior Nuntiato Baldocci one of the Computists of the Apostolical Chamber and with a great retinue and baggage answerable to the greatnesse
went directly to the Palace of the Bishop her lodgings the Frontispice of which had abundance of Torches The Cardinall receiv'd and accompany'd her to her lodgings as all the chief Lady 's of the Countrey likewise did who stood in rankes at the bottome of the stairs The Furniture for the Chambers as well as the preparation for the Tables was sumptuous and rich for the naturall generosity of the Cardinall omitted not any thing becoming a regall entertainment Her Majestie supp'd in publick with the Cardinall the same order in sitting and ceremony at the table being observ'd as at Ferrara and Bologna Count Alexander Sassatelli was her Majesties Cupbearer and Signior Thadius Dalla Volpe her Sewer Besides a great number of Persons well qualify'd twelve Pages the sons of the chief Gentlemen of the City assisted at the table The figures adorning the table were so finely contriv'd and with such mysterious Hieroglyphicks that the Queen looking earnestly upon them nourish't more her mind than her body Cardinall Donghi was Clerke of the Chamber and had other vacant Offices on the track of which he had a large field to shew his great parts which with his deserts encreas'd by his intense applications towards the service of the Apostolicall Sea in the stirrs of the wars of Castro preferr'd him to the purple He is a Gentleman of great integrity and freeness which he vigorously shew'd in the Legations of Ferrara and Romagna administred by him with much praise and advantage to the good and exemplary punishment of the bad His mind is generous and free and his intellect capable of the mannagement of the greatest affairs On St. Andrews day after Masse the Queen went from Imola attended and accompany'd by the Cardinall aforesaid to the confines of the territory Faenza where she met with my Lord Castelli a horseback a Gentleman of much worth and Governour of the City accompany'd by many Gentlemen and two troopes of Horse As soone as he had ended his complement with the Queen he rode forward insomuch as the Queen continuing diligently her journey in those waies which are plaine and good some miles without the City was met by Cardinall Charles Rossetti the Bishop of the Place who with a fine livery of thirty groom's and a traine of many travailing Coaches full of Gentry alighting as the Queen likewise did made the usuall complement being received with equall kindness and courtesie Her Majesty approaching to the City saw the neighbouring plaine all cover'd with people flock't thither to behold this great Princess and with Souldiers in squadrons to honour her arrivall some Pieces of Artillery plac't on the Walls though slight and without rampards were discharg'd and their roaring was seconded by the noyse of the Drums Trumpets Mortar-pieces and Muskets All the streets of the City abounded with people in arms and gay ornaments hanging from the window's and balcone At her entrance into the gate she was reverenc't by the publick Magistrates who on horseback and with their robes of Velvet attended her Majesty to the Palace of the Bishop design'd for her lodging and very richly furnish't with a double guard of Souldiers The Queen alighting out of her Coach in which she came alone and receiv'd by the Cardinall who hastened before her ascended the staires of the Palace on the top of which she met the cheif Ladies of the City who after a short complement waited on her to the lodgings prepared for her with all splendour and magnificence While her Majesty reposed a little with very good order the quarters were assigned to all of her numerous traine by Gentlemen appointed for that function who contended to shew their punctuality She afterwards comming forth of her lodgings went thence to dinner very splendidly prepared with such admirable workmanship of Statues representing Rome the four parts of the world the wordly Monarchy and other carved things gilt and coloured so to the life that they onely wanted motion Her Majesty sate at the table with the Cardinall in the manner observed before The Marquis Francis Rosseti nephew to his Eminence gave the water for her Majesties hands and the Marquis Gâ—rolamo his Brorher presented the Napkin and was Cupbearer Count Laderchi and Cavalier Pasi both Knights of St. Stephen were Sewers receiving the meat from the hands of twelve Gentlemen that assisted at the table At dinner her Majesty had continuall discourse with the Cardinall which was mixed with such a Carriage and gravity that she swerving not at all from the State of a Queen shewed evidently how much she was pleased with his Eminences behaviour an Academy in the mean time being prepared to entertain her Majesty in the exercises which as more peculiar to her most refined understanding might with a more relishing change make her pass from the food of her body to the aliment of her minde In this Academy besides the cheif discourse made in praise of the Church of Rome by father Zenobi the Domcan a Person of great vertue and parts above 30. Compositions were to be recited by others as well Ecclesiasticall as Secular eminent in severall languages Latine Spanish Greeke low Dutch and Italian and amongst these one in musique the fruite of the invention of the said Marquis Francis Rossetti who with a rare phancy introducing musique silence and poesy to sing the Queenes glories was no less harmonious to the eare than delightfull to the intellect but it was not effected for instead of abiding there that night the Queen would continue her journey so as she rising from the table after a short stay in her Chamber went to visit the Cathedrall with a singular example of piety which thowgh it might well appear naked even in the fight of so great a Princess in being the designe of the famous Architect Bramante yet was all adorned with silke with such a rare mixture of colours that it cleerly shewed its joy in receiving within the compass of its walls whom the vastness of a Kingdome was not able to containe Faenza is an ancient and noble City fortified with walls and towers and seated in the middle of most fertile Plains famous for the art peculiar to it selfe of making most white and light vases of earth 'T is divided by the river Lamone which passing through the suburbs and the town leaves them afterwards united with a fair bridge of stone and two towers on the Emilian way The air is very healthfull the inhabitants industrious civil and lovers of their Countrey and the Gentry Courteous punctuall and very generous The Queen coming out of the Cathedrall went again into his Holinesses Coach carrying with her the Cardinall to the confines of that Territory towards which she advanced in pursuance of her journey about two houres before night having left imprinted in the minds of each one high conceits of her most excellent qualities The Queen seemed highly pleased with this Cardinall who had besides his learning and
which is a noble Palace or Lyceum design'd for publick studies She was met at the Gate and attended by Cardinall Rapaccioli the Vice-Chamberlain in the place of Cardinall Anthony Barberino who as Chamberlain is the head of that University being accompany'd by my Lord Richi Auditor di Rota as Lieutenant of the Cardinall Chamberlain and all the Advocates of the Consistory The great Hall and the less the antecedent were very richly furnish't o're the door of the first stood her Majesties picture at length and in the said Hall was erected a cloth of state in the midst of which sate the Queen and the Cardinall on her left hand The Advocates stood on one side and at the bottom of the royall seat all the Professors in a ring and the Bedells with maces of Silver in their hands On the right hand was prepared a chair for the Professors whom her Majesty would hear speak First she desired to hear a Divine which place was performed by Doctor Peter Maria Passarino of Modena Procurator General of the Order of St Dominique who made his rare parts and deep learning appear after whom a Phisitian was desired by her Majesty so as Signior Giouanni Benedetto Sinibaldi most learnedly and to his great praise discharged his part Then Signior Henrico Chifellio a Humanist was call'd who though a long time blind shew'd he hâd seen much in the knowledge of Humanity Her Majesty seem'd afterwards desirous to hear a Philosopher and Dr. John Baptist di Lezana a Carmelite was not wanting to give laudable testimonies of his knowledge whom Signior Giacomo Cincio a Canonist succeeded who rarely performed his part and gave the Queen great satisfaction The Mathematician Don Antonio Santini did the like who in his demonstration on paper came down from the chair to satisfie her Majesties curiosity who desired to see it nearer her The Queen was askt afterwards if she pleased to hear the Professors of tongues and she seeming content severall of them went into the chaire one after the other fully satisfying the genius of her Majesty The first was Signior Giouanni Battista Giona Galileo who in the Hebrew tongue explained a passage in Genesis the second Signior Gulielmo Artio who discoursed in Greeke of Philosophy the third Signior Abramo Ecchlensio who in the Syriaqâ—é tongue displayed some points relating to the knowledge of it and the fourth Don Philippo Guaâ—agnolo who in the Arabick and Chaldean tongue disputed against some points of the Alcoran of Mahomet This royall entertainment being ended the Advocates of the Consistory presented her Majesty in a hundred and twelve volumes the works in print of the Professors of that study as well of those now living as the others lately dead which volumes were all bound richly in Gold with the Arms of her Majesty she had too a Catalogue in print of the works aforesaid with an elogie composed by Count Charles Emanuel Vizzani one of the Advocates of the Consistory and a person of great fame Thus ended the visit with extraordinary satisfaction to her Majesty for the nourishment which with her rare understanding she had found in the qualities of such eminent Persons this Princess being likewise astonisht as well at the various and solid literature and learning as the other great parts which with her refined judgement she discovered in the said Cardinall Rapaccioli Her Majesty had likewise a desire to see the noble Monasterie of the Nuns of St. Catharine of Sienna of the order of St. Dominick seated on the Mountain Magnanapoli in which they receive only Ladies of great quality At the Gate of the said Monasterie she was received by the Prioress sister Emilia Cenci with other Nuns which stood in rankes on both sides with the Queen went in the Father Generall of the Dominicans of the Family of the Marquisses Marini of Genova a person much esteem'd for the nobleness of his birth his good life and great learning Father Guemes her Majesties Confessor the Arch-Bishop Forregiani and four others of the most eminent Fathers of the Order of St. Dominique She went presently into the Quire where she was welcomed with a consort of severall musical instruments and heard with much pleasure a Moletto sung most exquisitely From thence she was conducted under a Canopie to the Hall where two tables were furnisht with a noble collation Here staying a little she afterwards went up into the Tower from which she discovering not only all Rome but much of the Countrey there abouts was so pleased with the prospect that she staid there two hours with great satisfaction coming afterwards down into the Church and hearing there Mass she return'd from thence to her Palace whither the Nuns sent her Majesty many pretty devises with a little Cofer of Carnation sattin embroydered with Gold in which was a relique of St. Catharine and another of San Romano with a relique of St. Nicholas da Bari in christall and six viols of Manna of the said Saint all embroydered with Silver with severall flowers of ambre and silke which her Majesty most kindly accepted as a testimony of the generous respect of those Ladies towards her person She was pleased too to visit the Convent of the Nuns of St. Sixtus of the most noble order of St. Dominick seated in Quirinale on the Mountain Magnanapoli for nobleness and beauty equall to the other there contiguous of St. Catharine of Sienna of the same order Her Majestie went in accompany'd by my Lord Forregiani the Father Generall the Father Procurator and her Majesties Confessour all Dominicans The Prioress sister Raimonda Colonna assisted by the rest of the Nuns received her at the Gate and waited on her throughout all the Monastery and Garden the fineness and neatness of which buildings together with the beauty of the seat pleased highly her Majesty who had there a noble Collation On the 16. of January her Majesty going into the Coach which his Holiness gave her accompanyed by the Princes Prelates and other Cavaliers went to the Greeks Church which was adorned with very rich Hangings especially the Cloyster called Sancta Sanctorum as also the door of the Sacristy where a throne was erected for her Majestie to the end she might see the better the Ceremonies they did within the Sancta Sanctorum She was received in the Church by Father John Rho Provinciall of the Society of Jesus and Father Octavius Massa Rector of the Greeke Colledge At her Majesties arrivall they began the Greek Mass which was sung by my Lord Laurence Constantino Arch-Bishop of Cassandra with three Priests a Deacon and Subdeacon they using the same ceremonies the Greek Church is accustomed to do when the Bishop does solemnly celebrate the said Prelate vesting himself in a pontifical habit in the midst of the Quire on a little throne Her Majestie was much pleased with this ceremony and shewing she understood well those rites discoursed of them with Signior Allatio of the City of Scio a person of
be acted several times The composition of the words was by Signior Giouanni Lotti and the musick by Tenalia both persons very famous With such recreations the Prince entertained her Majesty till the last night of Carneval in which he made wonderfully appear his own wit and generosity for after a royal collation and abounding with all the new fruits they could get in despight of the harshness of the season he conducted the Queen into a great roome adorned with most splendid and inestimable furniture where she saw sitting under a state the furniture in a moment vanish out of the Chamber a fair Sea there appearing in a beautifull prospect and ingeniously contrived within that narrow place she saw then immediately Venus and Cupid descend from above in a Chariot drawn by two Pigeons without seeing what supported it in the aire insomuch as the Queen and all that were there were amazed and astonisht Venus being come to the earth with her Son heard Cupids complaints who accused the Ladies of Tybur for being too rigid and the authority of his Mother not appeasing his anger he shot some arrowes towards the Ladies and together with Venus returned to the Chariot both of them singing joyntly the praises of her Majesty As they vanished they sang a little song inviting some Ladies who formerly were followers of Cupid to give with a dance some refreshment to them he had subdued The machine vanishing away from the sides of the maritime scene issued forth eight Ladies of the Princess aforesaid most splendidly apparrel'd with lighted Torches in their hands and danced a rare dance establishing love with those unstable motions and securing the motions of the will with the measure of short distances After this the room was refurnisht as before and her Majesty was so highly contented that she publickly declared she had not seen any thing in Rome to her greater satisfaction The words were composed by the said Prince Don Camillo who presented her Majesty with a song made by him on her renouncing of her Kingdoms which was much commended by her she celebrating the Prince for a very vertuous person and deserving all praise and applause Still in all these actions the Princess of Rossano was accompanyed by many Princesses and Ladies and severall Princes and Cavaliers were with the Prince who had every day rich cloaths with strange and new inventions The same did the Princess who had Jewels of inestimable value This Princess with her prudence and most noble carriage made it evidently appear her mind is as illustrious and generous as her family is great she being the Niece of many Popes and allyed to many Potentates in Italy The Abbot Caesar Malvicino and Signior Carlo Centosiorini the former the Secretary and the latter the chief Gentleman of the horse to the Prince aforesaid still assisted at these functions as likewise Signior Mario Raviera his Excellences domestick Gentleman who applyed himself to it very earnestly In Carneval-time notwithstanding these vertuous entertainments her Majesty shewed her piety in visiting severall Churches and particularly that of Giesu where with a most splendid preparation the forty hours were exposed On a scaffold in fine order appeared six mountains the arms of his Holiness on the top of which according to the prophecie of Isaiah they saw the Church sitting in a beautifull manner who while with her left hand she supported the cross with the other pointed at the sublime throne of glory on which they discovered the Saviour of the VVorld On the two contiguous mountains were erected two figures representing Religion and contemplation while the theological vertues plac't on the three mountains below did court and attend her At the feet of the mountains they saw come from all parts throngs of people to do homage to that great Monarchess and captivate their understandings convinced in obedience to the Catholick Faith Those personages afterwards appeared who thought it a thing of glory and desert to preferre the reproach of the cross before worldly greatness They represented too the Princes Kings and Emperours who shewed they regarded not their titles but to have some worthy argument to make known to the VVorld their esteem of the true Religion while for the love of it they despised those dignities There were likewise Princesses and Queens whose piety was as generous and as the famous Painters had given life and eloquence with their pensills to the Pictures so they were all contented with their state but in a certain manner confessed they were conquered with the modern miracle of a couragious and masculine woman who remarkable in the midst of the rest with a countenance breathing majestick as well as devotion the more she endeavoured to obscure the titles of a Queen acquired them the more The three Crowns and Scepters the victimes offered up by her to the Catholick Faith she did not now behold but every one admired them and it seemed she would plant them in that mountain she judging it worthy to have Scepters for trees and Diadems for flowers where Monarchs and Princes excited by her singular example might instead of birds build their nests To this great Lady the supream Commandress of the mountain bowed her face as if she had said many daughters have heaped up riches and thou exceedest them all You would have thought in so pleasing a sight the holy Church sucking consolations with her eyes and milk as it were from so many breasts as there were triumphant soules encreased to the eyes of the beholders and with those mountains quickened with some invisible breath was raised much higher Behind the Mountains and Personages they discovered severall fine distances which was all in the low region But the eye looking upwards entered into a Paradise which being wide open while it would be a Spectator of what was done on earth became a delitious and fortunate spectacle to way-faring men It extended it self in many circles proportionably still greater and abounding with beautifull figures of knots Seraphins Cherubins Angels and Saints even to the top of the Arch and profundity of the royal Court the receptacle of glory which could not be bounded with limits fine knots appearing without the Arch. The most holy Sacrament the Ascendent and Horoscope of the holy Church was in the midst of Heaven as it were nor could they discern how or where it reposed and yet it stood fast The blessed soules adoring it as they shewed they enjoyed its glories so likewise presaged by vertue of its influences greater happiness to the Catholick VVorld and it seemed they heard them say to those mountains enjoy peace O Mountains at which tidings they shall skip for joy like Ramms for the hope they saw they had The Father eternall was Spectator of all whom we there represent as when he had finish'd the VVorld and said all was good so there he appeared supported in himself and joyning together the high with the low the Earth with the Heaven made one
single Region as it were How then that noble machine was illuminated we may guess by the starres that are still resplendent though the Sun the Fountain of light be not seen in the scene of Heaven The machine was every where bright but they could not discover from whence the light came nor tell if it was in the Pictures or borrowed from some Sun assembled by art so with many very pleasing deceits of near distances and distant nearness fixed flights and endings without end they sweetly lost their curiosity and had their devotion free so as they might employ themselves wholy in those holy exercises At that time on the Theater aforesaid of the Signior Barberini two other fine musical Playes vvere represented vvith rare changes of scenes intermediums of dances and most exquisite musick the subject of both being handsomly translated out of Spanish The one was intituled Armes and Love containing the many amorous and warlike events which usually accompany by turnes the fortunes of the followers of Mars and Venus The other called the good of evill contained too a knot of various amorous accidents in which vertue and love intermixing by chance made appear oftentimes out of evill comes good and frequently from disasters better fortune proceeds allowing the saying we should have been in danger if we had not been in danger The Queen was still present at these actions entertaining and delighting her mind which was given and applyed to vertuous and noble things The German Colledge desired too the occasion of paying their dutifull respects to the Queen in a musical Play called the sacrifice of Isaack the contents of which were that God the supream King of victories and fountain of all power loves above all victimes the rationall and above all sacrifices the unbloody of obedience where there is a contrition of the heart a captivating of a faithfull understanding and a pious will subjected to his pleasure The intermedium was the valorous and fortunate act of Judith and all did allude to the glories of the Queen for renouncing her Kingdoms and professing the Catholique Faith A Father of the Society composed the words and the musick was done by Signior Carissimi master formerly of the Chappell of that Church of Apollâ—nare On the 28. of February in the evening in the foresaid Palace of the Signior Barberini at the four fountains Which as for the appearances and machines deserved an universall applause so obliges me to relate it succinctly I leaving the severall particulars to be published by a learneder penne and more happy The great Court of the said Palace which is long and spatious was designed for the Theater These Gentlemen by demolishing some houses of their own that were contiguous caused two large and commodious ascents of degrees to be erected on the left side capable of about 3000. Persons in the midst of which a magnificent great gate was built o're against the Queens place adorned with various figures which being about the Queens armes made a very fine prospect On the top of the said great Gate in four great windowes with lettises before them was the Quire for the Musitians who with various instruments made most exquisite musick In the side of the Palace two rowes of scaffolds were erected the one o're the other covered with rich tapistries and so with proportionable symmetrie from both the sides two other ranges answerable were extended so as by an ingenious industry that Court was reduced into the forme of a beautifull Theater To give light to the field besides the thick Torches of white wax and artificiall materialls which burnt on severall rowes of the Pillars on the ascents of the degrees and at the head of the lists there were sixteen great starres artificially composed of iron wire each of which being set up very high in the aire with a new invention not seen before in the middle of the field held sixteen great Torches so as by commutation the lights alone cost above a thousand Crowns In the midst of the side aforesaid on the first floore of the appartaments a very capacious box was erected for her Majesty adorned within and without with most rich cloth of Gold with her state of crimson velvet bordered and fringed with Gold All those royall appartaments were very richly furnished and altogether answerable to the greatness and generosity of the minds of the Barberini Near her Majesty were four Cardinalls to wit Retz Imperiale Borromeo and Azzolino and all the Gentlemen of her Court The other Cardinalls had their places somewhat higher than the Queens and likewise all the windowes were nobly adorned and abounded with other eminent Persons On the second scaffolds were the Princesses and Ladies most finely attired and resplendent to augment with the splendour of their beauty and ornaments the lustre and Jewels of so handsome a spectacle The pompe and majesty of this shew made all Rome curious to behold it together with the neighbouring Countreys so as though the concourse of the people to get in was very great yet all civill persons were let in without confusion by the excellent order of Cardinall Barberin with whose good direction all things were regulated After 3. hours in the night they began The 24. Cavaliers each one of which was most splendidly set out were divided into two squadrons In the first appearance were Signior Lorenzo Roberti the Marquiss Tarquinius Santa Croce Captain Giuseppe Marino Rasponi Baron Augustine del Nero Signior Fabio de Massimi Colonel Lodovick Casale Signior Carlo Rapaccioli the Marquis John Peter del Drago Signior Guido Rasponi Signior Mar. Antonio Verospi Signior Ferdinando Vecchiarelli a Knight of Malta and Signior Paola Francesco Falconieri all which were on generous steeds barded with blew furniture embroydered with Silver to which their sutes were answerable and cloakes of the same colour with very rich embroyderies representing shining Pearls with plumes of feathers so large and stately that 't is hard to say how they could with the waving of the aire support on their heads so spatious and heavy a machine the feathers costing each of them above two hundred Crowns Eight Trumpetters went before and a hundred and twenty grooms all cloath'd in a Livery embroyder'd with Silver on blew and great blew and white feathers on their heads each of them carrying a great lighted Torch in their hands which greatly augmented the lustre and splendour all marching very orderly After the twelve Cavaliers came at last a most beautifull Chariot most rarely designed which was of blew and silver adorn'd with figures and admirable devises of embossed work It was so high it reached to the box of the Queen and was drawn by three Musitians habited like Goddesses and representing the three Graces one concealed within it moving it secretly and with great agility In it sate joyfull Rome in a most majestick manner who desirous to discover her joy for the arrival of a Princess so great seemed to look like love which
of Christianity may best of all others give a happy long and fit entertainment to her Majesties glorious fortunes FINIS The life and qualities of Gustavus Adolphus of Swedland His stature The Turk was jealous of his fortune His remarkable sayings His Conquests With what Army he pass'd the Sea Christina his only daughter succeeds in the Kingdom The education of this Princesse Her wonderfull wit On whom the Government of the Kingdom depended on her minority She learnt diverse tongues She makes great Progresse in learning She begins to assist at the Council of State and afterwards takes the Government upon her She administers her self the greatest affairs She makes her self belov'd and fear'd She contemns all delicacy She makes war and then peace with Denmark to her advantage She is honour'd by all the Princes of the world Heavens is propitious to her The reasons which give motives to the true knowledge Important observations Her own vertue makes her see the truth She examines the life and conditions of Martin Luther She perceives the falsities and untruths spread by him She fortifies them with some important examples She detests heresie She resolves to turn Catholique She sends a Jesuit to Rome In her letter to the Father General of the Society She desires two Fathers of the Society may be sent to her The Father Generall receives her letters very gladly He sends two Fathers into Swedland Their journey Their arrivall They are courteously receiv'd She treats secretly with them and determines to inform the Pope of her resolution Don Antonio Pimentel is in Swedland for his Catholique Majesty The Queen imparts to him her thoughts And resolves to rely on the Catholique King Father Malines the Jesuit is dispatcht to the Court of Spain for that effect Father Guemes a Dominican arrives in Swedland and her Majesty makes use of him She informs him of the business and sends him into Spain Her negotiations The King of Spains sense of the news The King of Spain's perplexity With great piety he undertakes the business and writes to the Pope The States of Swedland make instance to the Queen Her Majesties answer Charles Gstavus Palatine is declared and substituted in the Kingdom after the death of the Queen She trusts wholly in God She resolves to forgoe her Kingdoms She is disswaded but without effect The renouncing follows The ceremonies of this action A generous act of her Majesty She gives some advertisements to the King her Successour The Prince Palatine is anointed King of Swedland The Queens return to Stockholm and her departure She makes them believe she will go into the Island of Holland The affliction of the people for her departure Her Majesties journey She visits the Queen her Mother She gives out she will change her journey She dimisses divâ—rse of the Court. She puts on mans cloaths to pass unknown She passes the straight of the Sound She comes to Hambourg She speaks with the Prince of Holsteria and concludes the marriage of his daughter with the King of Sweden She is Visited in Hambourg by diverse Princes of Germany She is feasted abroad by the Landgrace of Hessen She departs on the suddaine from Hambourg Differences between the Crown of Swedland and the City of Bremen Her Majesties journey from Hambourg to Antwerp She is known in Munster She arrives in Antwerp The applauses with which she is seen in that City The Arch-Duke sends to complement her The Prince of Condes pretences not admited He visits the Queen as a private Gentlemen Many Iricys and great Lods come to â—isit the Queen The Emperour sends Earle Montecucoli to complement her Majesty She goes conceal'd to Bruxells The King of Spaine sends Don Antony Pimentel extraordinary Ambassadour to the Queen The Aâ—ch-Duke returns to Antwerp to invite the Queen to Bruxells Her Majesties entrance into Bruxells The rejoycings with which she is publickly received in Bruxells She makes secretly profession of the Catholick faith She eats in publick She is alwaeis inclin'd to Noble and worthy entertainments The Queen her Mother dies The death of Pope Innocent Cardinall Chigi is assum'd to the Papacy With the applause of all Christianity The Queen gives an account to the Pope of her desire to come to Rome Letters from the King of Spaine to his Holiness Presents made by her Majestie to the Arch-Duke in Flanders and others Her departure from Bruxells The quality of her Majesties Traine The persons of quality that accompanied the Queen Her reception in Ruremond She passes through Cullen The continuation of her journey She is visited by the King of Scotland And by the Elector Palatine Afterwards by Prince Robert She goes from Steinhaim She arrives in Rotemburg She comes to Nordlinguen To Donavert Earle Montecuccoli returnes dispatcht again to the Queen from the Emperour The Queens letter to the Arch-Duke of Inspruch She goes privately to Auspurge to see the most remarkable things The Queen is met by the Officers of the Elector of Bavaria She is treated sumptuously in Landsperg She enters Tyrole The Arch-Dukes of Inspruch go to visit the Queen privately in Seefelt Her Majesties entrance into Inspruch The honours done her by their Highnesses the Arch-Dukes His Holinesse resolves to dispatch to Inspruch my Lord Luke Holstenius He elects four Nuntii to receive the Queen on the Confines of the State Ecclesiastical Breifes consignâ—d to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines the Jusuit goes with the said Holstenius to Inspruch The Breife to his Eminence Lomellino Cardinall Legate of Bologna My Lord Holstenius arrives at Mantoua The Popes Breifâ— to the Prince of Trent The Breife to the Arch-Duke Charles Ferdinand My Lord Holstenius is received by the Arch-Duke with much Courtesie The honours done to my Lord Holstenius Father Malines is sent to discover the will of the Queen The Popes Breife to the Arch-Dutchness of Inspruch My Lord Holstenius visits the Baron Ghirardi The expressions of the said Baron My Lord Holsténius visits the Ambassador Pimentel He imparts to him his Holinesses intention And he to the Queen who submits to the Popes pleasure My Lord Holstenius hath audience of her Majestie Her Majestie discourse with my Lord Holstenius His Holineses Breif to the Queen The Queen dines publickly with their Highnâ—sses the Arch-Dukes Her Majesty visits the Palace of Ambre She goes into the Church publickly The Order of the Church for performing the function of the Catholick profession The contents of the Popes Brief to my Lord Holstenius The Act of the Catholick Profession made by the Queen The Queens great generosity The absolution given to the Queen by my Lord Holstenius The joy for this profession The Recreations and plays recited before her Majestie The forme of the subscription of the act of profession Her Majesties departure from Inspruch The Arch-Duke sends a Gentleman to visit the Queen Her Majesty returnes the Arch-Dukes Complement The honors done her Majesty by the Bishop of Bressanon The Baron of Fermiano comes to
Inspruch to complement the Queen in the name of the Prince of Trent He invites her Majesty to Trent The Queens answer to the Baron of Fermiano The invitation made her in the name of the Duke of Mantoua She is splendidly treated at Trent She resolve to dine at Trent The generosity of the Prince of Trent The description of Lavis The Prince of Trent meets the Queen She alights at the Church She observes the most remarkable things The Prince Complements the Queen The Queen her letter to the Prince of Trent She enters into the state of Venice The Cavaliers of Verona complement Don Antonio Pimentel In Dolce they resolve to go thorough the Countrey of Mantoua My Lord Holstenius gives information to the Legate of Ferrara The Marquiss Andreasi complementeth the Queen in the name of the Duke of Montoua The Duke goes to meet the Queen He waitâ— on her Majesty Who received him with great courtesie The Arch-Dutchesse complementeth the Queen She passeth the Po and is royalty received in Revere The entertainments given to her Majesty by the Duke of Mantoua She eats in publick She departs from Revere with great satisfaction The Nuntii of his Holynesse go to meet the â— Queen She arrives at Figarolo She advanced towards Ferrara A splendid bridge o're the Po. She is met at the gate of Ferrara She alights at the Cathedral being received by the Cardinal Bishop From the Church she goes to the Castle Count Montecuccoli sent by the Queen to Rome The qualities of the Prince of St. Gregory And of Cardinal Pio. The Queens discourse at the Table The description of Ferrara The noble qualities of the Cardinal John Baptist Spada She departs from Ferrara She is received on the confines by the Vice-Legate of Bologna Cardinall Lomellino goes out to meet the Queen Her reception at her entrance into Bologna She visits the Church fine Convent of St. Dominique The honours her Majesty received in Bologna She dines in publick The manner of the said Tilting The description of Bologna The worthy qualities of the Bolognesi The eminent condition of Cardinal Lomellino She departs from Bologna She is met on the Confines by the Vice Legate Romagna She is met by Cardinal Donghi the Bishop of Imola Her reception in Imola The eminent qualityes of Cardinall Donghi She departs from Imola And is met by the Governour of Faenza And afterwards by Cardinall Rossâ—ttâ— the Bishop of the place The honors dâ—ne her Majesty in Faenza She dines in publique The vertuous preparations designed for her Majesty in Faenza The Description of Faenza The qualities of Cardinall Rossetti The meeting she had in Forli The honors done her in Forli She depart from Forli Her reception in Cesena The description of Cesena Her departure from Cesena She is met by the Governour of Rimini She enters Rimini on horseback The vertuous entertainments she had in Rimini The description of Rimini Her departure from Rimini The worthy qualities of Cardinall Acquaviva Legate of Romagna She was met by my Lord the vice-Legal of Pesaro And afterwards by Cardinall Homodei Her reception in Pesaro She dines in publick Her Majesty is highly satisfyed with the demonstrations she receiv'd in Pesaro She departs from Pesaro highly satisfied with the honours she received The description of Pesaro The description of Fano The remarkable qualities of Cardinall Homodei Her Majesties reception by the Governour of Ancona Her reception in Ancona The compositions made in Ancona in honour of her Majesty The Bishop of Ancona visits her Majesty The description of Ancona My Lord Gentile Governour of Loretto meets the Queen The devotion of her Majestie towards the holy house Her arrival at Loretto The Queen makes a present of her Scepter and Crown at Loretto Don Antonia della Cueva arrived at Loretto The Queens letter from Inspruch to his Holiness The description of Loretto She departs from Loretto The description of Recanati The Arch Pio. She is met at Macerata She is complemented by the Ladies Her departure from Macerata She advances to Tolentino She visits the Church of St. Nicholas The description of Tolentino Her reception in Camerino Count Montecuccoli returnes from Rome to her Majesty She departs from Camerino The description of Camerino She arrives at Foligno The scituation of Foligno She goes to Assisi She is met by Cardinall Rondinino She visits the Church of Saint Francis She is royally entertained The quality of some statues which set out and adorned the table She visits the Church of the Angells The qualities of Cardinall Rondinino The description of Assisi She returnes to Foligno She departs towards Spoleto Cardinal Fachenetti meets her She is waited on by the Ladies of the City She goes to the Cathedrall She dines in publique She departs from Spoleto The eminent qualities of Cardinall Fachenetti The description of Spoleto Her reception at Terni The honours done her in Terni The description of Terni Her departure She dines in Otricoli The quality of this Place The Bridge Filice She is met by my Lord Visconte She arrives at Gallese Her reception in Gallese The description of Gallese She lodges in Caprarola The Spanish Ambassadour goes to Caprarola to visit the Queen She is met by the Duke of Bracciano The order of the Cavalcata The honors done her at the Castle of St. Angelo She arrives at St. Peters Her reception in the Church of St. Peter The Majestique ornaments in St. Peters She goes in to the Concistory and kâ—sses the feet of his Holiness She is present at his Holinesses Mass She receives the Sacrament of confirmation She communicates She visits the Church of St. Mary the greater She dines with his Holiness From the Vatican she goes to the Palace Farnese The presents given her by the Pope The Queen visits St. Peters Afterward St. James of the Spaniards Her Majesty visits the Church of Giesu She goes to see the Castle es St. Angelo She sees the Colledge of Sapienza She visits the Monastery of St. Catharine of Sienna And the Church of the Grecians She desires to hold an Academy in her own Palace She sees the Roman Colledge The description of the Roman Colledg which was adorned to receive her The honours done her Majesty She goes to the Colledg of Urbane for the propagation of the Faith The curiosities seen in the said Colledg She goes again to the Roman Colledg The splendid Library of the deceased my Lord Coccino The remarkable things she saw in the Roman Colledg She institutes an Academy in her own Palace The names of the Academians The contents of divers Academies held before her Majesty The Comedy intitled the triumph of piety recited to her Majesty in the Palace of the Prince of Pallestrina The morall contents of the Comedy The Author of the Composition She visits the famous reliques kept in St. Peters She goes to the Church of the Nuns in Campo Martio She goes to the Vineyard of Prince Panfilio The presents made by the said Prince to her Majesty The honours done her Majesty by Prince Panfilio The Queens recreations in the house of the said Prince The eminent qualities of the Princess of Rossano The noble preparation in the Church of Giesu The noble Comedies acted in the Palace of the Prince of Pellestrina The Play acted in the German Colledge Si fece la festa d' Carroselli The Cavalcata of his Holiness to St. Sabina She visits the English Colledge