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

Sacco from which the Bishop of Padoua takes his Title of Count a little beyond that stands Polverara where are bred the largest foul as Cocks and Hens of all Italy Near which begins the Sholes or Gulph of Venice between which appears the most antient now deserted Cit●…y of Adria which formerly gave the name of Mare Adriaticum to the Sea now called the Golph of Venice Towards the North stands the Castle di Campo San Piero whence that Noble Family took its name and Original Between Padoua and Bassano is built a Cit●…adel Towards the West is the City Vicenza with the famous Mountains Euganei so called in the Greek tongue for their excessive deliciousness whence the Padouans extract great quantities of Medicinal herbs Which Hils are neither part of the Alps nor part of the Apenines a thing scarce credible than which Constantiue Paleologo said as Rodigino reports that besides the Terrestial Paradice t was not possible the World could afford a place more full of delights At five miles distance from Padoua are extant the Baths of Albano where is to be admir'd the different kinds of Waters how out of a vast high cavernous Rock arises two sources of Water not above 2 foot one from the other of a perfect different nature the one whereof encrusts converts into a hard white stone not only the Banks by which it runs but what ever els is cast into it in creasing the saidc rustment of what is thrown in according to the time t is left in it and that which is more it begets Stone of the same nature upon the wheel of a Mill which is turned by its stream which every Moneth enforces the workemen to beat it off with Pickaxes that their Mill may not be hindred the Water hereof is never drunk by any creature being held very hurtfull but the other Water runs upon a light Sand is much more light in weight than the first and is divers times drank for sundty healthfull operatiōs the people have dug the Earth in parts round the said Hill and have found Sulphure about the middle part and at the root of them having dug towards the East and South parts they have found Salt Abano at this day is nothing so much inhabited as we ought to believe it was heretofore by reason that upon any digging they often find underground many Reliques of Antiquity some also will have it that here they spun the finest Linnen Cloth On the other side of Abano stands the sumptuous and rich Monastery of Praia with the black Monks of Saint Renedict and near it the Church of Santa Maria di Monte Ortone Approaching whereunto is the Convent of the Fryars Ermitans of Saint Augustine called Scalci or without Shoos in which are sources of boyling water and mud excellent for pains and shrunk sinews though the difficulty with which they are come at renders them of less common use than they would be for they are a vast way in the Earth and in small quantities too but they are of a white colour and stiff as well wrought clay not black and dirty as those which are commonly gotten out of the adjacent Montagnone They pass from Padoua to Estè upon the River and upon the way espy the noble Castle of Monselice environed with most pleasant Hills also the foundations of a ruinated fortress where they gather infinite numbers of Vipers for the composing of that so much famed Venice Treacle On the left side whereof is the Hill Arquato Contrada much spoken of in memory of Franc Petrarca whose habitation being long there at length he gave up the Ghost and was there honourably interred in a sepulchre of Marble with this Epitaph enscribed which himself made as followes Frigida Francisci lapis hic tegt ossa Petrarcae Suscipe virgo Parens animam sate Virgne parce Fessaque jam terris caeli requiescat in Arce At this day also may be seen there his House his Chair and little Garden Two miles distant from Arquato upon a little Hill is Cataio a large Town of the Signors Obici thence they come to Battaglia a Parish near the River seaven miles after which one arrives at Estè a noble Castle and antient whence that Illustrious Family of Estè drew their Original Whose Palace is transformed into a Monastery by the Dominican Fryers From this Country they extract besides abundance of all other things for sustenance excellent Wines It contains 100000 Souls and the publick have 18000 Crowns of yeerly income There they ascend the Mountain of Vende where is a Monastery of the Fryers of Mount Oliveto three miles whence stands another Mountain where is the rich Abbacy and Monastery of the Fryers of Camaldol Tenn miles beyond Estè is seated the noble Castle of Montagnana nothing inferiour to that of Estè neither in Riches nor Civility where they much trade in Hemp. Eight miles farther is Lendinara a very strong Castle Town washed with the River Adice but the Ayr is a little gross in the Winter time it contayns 4000 Souls Near which is the Castle Sanguienedo in the Confines between the Venetians and the Duke of Mantoua where there is a fayr even way for eighteen miles length Isuing out of the gate of Padoua called S. Croce which leads to Ferrara first you meet Conselve heretofore a Castle of the Signori Lazara where stands the most delitious palace of the Count Nicholas of Lazara a magnanimous and generous Knight wherein Henry the third King of France and Poland quartered near it lies the Count Paludo whence the said Signor derives his Lordship t is a Country Noble and Fertile is a Convent of the Fathers Hermitans founded by Giovanni de Lazara Knight of S. Giacomo and Lieutenant General of the Venetian Cavalrie in the yeer 1574. After which is met Anguillara whereby the Adice passeth Farther on they go to Rovigo made a City by the Prince or Duke of Venice seated 25 miles from Padoua and 18 from Ferara It was built out of the Ruines of Adria whence t is not allocated above a mile t is hathed by an Arm of the Adice where are erected noble dwellings environed with a deep Ditch or Fosse which in circuit are about a mile its Country is most Fertile being compassed about with the 4 Rivers The Poe the Adice the Tartaro the Castagnaro And so it borrowes the name of Polesine which signifies Peninsula almost an Island from its length and the circum volution of those Rivers Many Illustrious Persons have added to the Glory of this their Countrey as the Cardinal Roverella Brusoneo the Poet Celio the Riccobuoni and Gio Tomaso Minadoi a most learned Physician who wrote the Persian History with other famous men It hath a Church dedicated to Saint Bellino heretofore Bishop of Padoua the Priests whereof with miraculous success restore to health such as are bit by mad Dogs whom they as suddainly cure as indubitably with

that since it came from Galilee and the mount because the sins of the People there made it unworthy so the knowlege the Virgin had of the quality of this People made her transmit her habitation hither and the often mutations of the places makes it evident to all that this is the true Stanza or Cell of the blessed Virgin departed from Galilea It arrived in this Province in Italy in the yeer 1295. and in lesse thana yeer changed its place of stay three times though but within compasse of a mile but who will consider its now aboade must find that the wit of man could not invent a better P. Battista Mantouano Viccar General of the Garmelites among other grave Authers to whom this house was first given in custody before it left Galilee averrs the trnth of the former relations Societies of Priests that are Liuguists have it now in government whereby to be the better able to take the confessions of all Nations and give absolutions c. RECANATI FRom Loreto the way leads to Recanati a new City built out of the Reliques of the old Helvia Ricina whereof some will have Macerata to be built also which Helvia was once magnificently repaired by Helvio many of its old foundations and the bases of an Amphitheatre yet appear upon the Road. From Loreto to Recanati is three mile of very rough Way over Mountains In it is held a publick fair every yeer in September in the great Church lies Pope Gregory the 12th who in the Council of Constanza renounced the Papacy t is seated on the top of a high and spatious Mountain environed with the Apenines Gingolo the Sea and some other little Hills Beyond which is a plain in it San Severino heretofore a Bourg but made a City by Pope Sixtus quintus Math●…lica and Fabriano famous for the Pure writing paper there made and then Gamerino a well fortisied place abounding no less in Riches than People It alwaies assisted the Romans aud hath produced many emminent Men. Through the Vale Camerino you may go to Foligno and Spoleto MACERATA KEEping the direct Way thorow the Mountains you meet Macerata famous for greatnesse and beauty and the most noble City of the Marchiano In it is a College of Lawyers called the Rota deputed to hear Causes and the Residence of the Governors of all the Province Two great Causes for its full peopling About it ly several Bourgs Castles and Towns as Tolentino where they reverence the reliques of San Nicolo of the Angustine Order who there lived holily Montalto Fermo Ascolo and Seravalle beyond which lies Santa Anatolia whence through a Valley lies the way to San Foligno which is two days journy from Loreto FOLIGNO THe Longobardi having destroyed Foro Flaminio the Inhabitants out of its Ruines built Foligno The City is rich in Merchandize small but pleasant it hath a goodly porte whence the Citizens repelled the assaults of the Longobardi the Cities Perugia and Assisiaare Westward twenty miles from Foligno All along the Flaminian Way ly most flourishing Fields planted with all sorts of Fruits Vines Gardens Olive-Trees Almonds praised to the skies by Propertins Virgil and other Poets On the right hand lies Mevania the Countrey of Propertius and its Territory which produceth large Bulls and Oxen on the left was the Antient Temple of Metusca near it is the Source of the River Clitumnus issuing wirh a clear and plentifull head of Water enough to water the Fields of Bertagna which at its second stage had the name of a God given it by the blind Gentiles to whom t is believed the neighbouring Temple of Marble now antique yet noble was dedicate in old time T is made in that form which Vitruvius writing of the order of Temples teaches that those of Fountains Nimphes Venus Flora and Proserpina ought to have to wit to have some similitude with their Gods and hath in the Ornaments of the outside leaves of Bears-foot and Holm tree which demonstrate the fruitfulness of Clitumnus which the Antients observed so fatned the adjacent Pastures that thereby the Herds of Cattel grew very great and Pliny Lucan and Servius the Commentator of Virgil a ver●… that those Cattel drinking of the water of Clitumnus became white Out of these Herds the Roman Conquerors used to select the most fair and in their triumphs to sacrifice them for a happy Augury to the victory brought with them The same also were led by the Emperors which triumphed with their horns guilt and bathed with the water of this River unto the Campidoglio and there sacrificed to Iove and other Gods which made the Spoleti●… to honour Clitumnus as a God and to it were dedicated by the antients Temples and Groves as may be collected from Propertins in these words Qua formosa suo Clitumnus flumina Luco Integer niveos abluit unda boves Virgil the Prince of Poets in the second of his Gorgicks speaking politely of the praise of Italy saith thus Hinc albi Clitumne greges maxima tanrus Victimae saepe tuo perfusi flumine sacro Romanos ad templa Deum duxere triumphos Silius also touches upon this conceipt in the Carthaginian War in few words to wit Et lavit ingentem perfusum flumine sacro Clitumnus taurum SPOLETO IN the same day the Traveller may go from Foligno to Spoleto a splendid City deficient in nothing the Refidence of the Longobardi Princes now ennobled by the Title of the Duke of Ombra antiently t was a strong Roman Colony so made by Litius and reduced by the Romans when they had overthrown the Ombri in the Consulate of G. Claudius Centone and Marius Sempronius Tuditanus Which Colony after the Romans had received the Rout near Trasineno was so bold as to withstand Hannibal the Conqueror and taught him to gather what vast strength the Roman Empire was of from the power of one sole Colony by forceing him to turn tayl retreat after the losse of many men into the Marchiana The old broken structures shew that it flourished greatly in the Romans time One may yet see the Palace of Theodorick King of Goths destroyed by the Goths but rebuilt by Narsete Captain for Justinian the Emperor The Temple of Concord the foundation of a Theatre and of stately Aquiducts TERNI THe following day through the Valley Strattura closed in by Hills Rocks and cliffs of the Apenines you reach Terni called Iteranna by the Antients from its inclosure between the branches of the River Nera The old Ruins of the Edifices shew it to have been in all things greater than at present and within memory t is known much decay came to it by intestine hatred and civil discords Many antient Marble Inscriptions shew that t was a free City of the Romans but at what time it received the title of a free City and the Prerogative of Roman Denizenship is not certainly known Pighius observes from a great Marblestone fixed in the Walls of the

Cathedral Church that t was built 544. yeers before the Consulate of C. Domitius Enobarbus and M. Camillus Scribonianus who were Consuls 624. yeers after the foundation of Rome and that sacrifice was made in Terni to the health of Liberty and the Genius of the City to gratifie Tiberius Caesar who then elevated himself from the feet of Seianus The said Pighius deduceth thus much from the Title on the said Marble and in his Annales of the Senate and People of Rowe sets it down more distinctly we conclude from the whole that t was built 80. yeers after Rome under Numa and then obtained its title of a Municipal City The Territory of Terni through the site and the usefullnesse of the sweet Waters is all of a fat soyl being exposed to a benign Sun which in some part appologizeth for what Pliny saies to wit that the Meadows are mowed 4 times in a yeer and afterwards fed besides that Turnips have there lately grown of 30. pound weight whereof four makes an Asses Load and Pliny saies 40. pound weight NARNI KEEping the Via Flaminia you arrive at Narni placed on a rough Hill of difficult ascent at the foot whereof runs the River Nera roaring through the breakings of the Rocks wherewith it encounters Livy and Stephano Gramatico derive the name of the City from that of the River and Martial in the 7th book of his Epigrames describes it thus Narnia sulphureo quam gurgite candidus amnis Circuit ancipiti vix adeunda jugo The same Livy affirms that the City was first called Nequino and the Inhabitants thence Nequinati when subdued by the Romans from the paultry and wicked customes of the People but afterwards the Roman Colony despising that name called it Narni from the Rivers name The Triumphs in the Campidoglio set forth that the Nequinati were confederate with the Sanniti and with them overcome by M. Petinus the Consul who therefor triumphed in the 454th yeer of Rome and then made a Colony as aforesaid Now the Cities form is long and fair in Fabricks and plentifully supplyed from its near Campagna though in the memory of our Ancestors and since it hath been much turmoyled with troubles and Warrs Without Narni over the River are wonderfull great Arches of a Bridge which did conjoyn two high and precipitous Mountains between which the River passed some believe this Bridge was built by Augustus with the spoils of the Siacambri and Procopius affirms it adding that more eminent Arches were never seen the Reliques now appearing demonstrate it the work of a flourishing Empire and of excessive expence Martial t is supposed speaks herof in these words Sed jam parce mihi nec abutere Narnia Quinto Perpetuo liceat sic tibi ponte frui The stones of this Bridge are cecmented with Iron and Lead one Arch now to be seen is 200. foot broad and 150. foot high under which t is said is buried great Treasure A stream is brought into the City which passeth for 15. miles under most high Mountains and supplies thr●… brass fountains there is also a water of N●…ni called caristia or Famine because it never appear●… but the yeer before some great fami●… as it happened in Anno 1589. it yields also many healthfull wat●…rs Forty miles off Narni to go in the way to Rome is a Mountainous Rock through which the Way is cut with Chizels 30. foot deep and 15 broad beyond which is pleasant way to Ottricoli a mile from Tevere Passing by the antiquities of the Via Flaminia and the vast mines of Ottricoli you come to Tevere beholding by the way great Reliques of publick structures as Temples Baths Aqueduct●… Conservatories of water a Theatre and Amphitheatre which testify the grandezza and magnificence of that municipal City while the Roman Empire flourished Two inscriptions of statues dedicate to the Father and Daughter by the publick make appear that they built those Baths at their own expence and then gave them to the publique both which are inscribed on Marble as followeth L. Iulio L. F. Pal. Iuliano IIII. Vir. AEd. III. 1. D. IIII. Vir Quin que Quinque 11. Dast Patr●…no Municipi Plebs Ob. Merita L. D. D. D. Iuliae Lucillae L. Iulii Iuliani Fil Patroni municipi 〈◊〉 P●…ter Termas Ocriculanis ●… Solo. E●…ctas 〈◊〉 ●…ecunia Donavit Dec Aug. Plebs L. D. D. D. Whence you passe by the Town Tevere near the stone Bridge built by Augustus which Bridge was so great that with its mines it tumed and hindred the course of the River thence coasting the foot of the Mountain Soratte at night you lodge at B●…gnano Pope Clement the 8th commanded imitating Augustus to his great costs and no less glory this Bridge to be repaired here terminated the Burro●…ghs of Rome in the time of the Emperour Aurelianus and we read that in former times Rome was 150. miles in ci●…cuit and that while Constantin●… reigned the Walls and buildings from Tevere to Rome were so thick that who was but seldome conversant there took it for the City of Rome The River being past you meet Borgheto the City Castellan and Capr●…rola and farther on is the B●…idge Milvio or Mole where God shewed to Constantine a Cross wi●…h these words In hoc signo vinces with which encouragement Constantine fought and overcame Maxentius the Tyrant by which Bridge one passeth the Tevere or Ti●…er and so arrives to the Suburbs of Rome entring the Porta Flaminia now called Porta del Popolo LUCCA THis City glories in the universal agreement of all Authors that t is one of the most antient of Italy and they that speak of its latest Original attribute it to Lucchio Lucnmone Laerte of Tuscany who reigned 46. yeers after the foundation of Rome from whom some say it took its name Lucca but some others aver●… t was built long before that time even by the Grecians before the destruction of Troy It alwaies was for its strength and power of much consideration and that made C. Cempronius after the overthrow he received from Hannibal at Trebbia and the lesse fortunate day fought before Piacenza to recover Lucca with the remnant of his Army as to a place that yeelded asecure retreat and the valorous Narsete who for the Emperour Iustinian freed Italy of the Goths could not have gained it with his 7 Moneths tedious and most rigorous siege had he not by a certain wile and cunning perswaded or rather intreated the Citizens to deliver their City of their own accord and with their own terms Its Seignors or Lords have so well added to its former strength that no City in Italy comes near it for it hath eleaven strong Bulworks in lesse than 3. miles circuit and a vast wall with works within upon which the Trees planted the pleasant and fertile hills surrounding it and the stately Palaces in the heart of it renders it a most delightfull City Strabo reports the Romans often raised there many foot Souldiers

Sublaco which Lakes Tacitus seems to call Simbrivini saying in the 14th Book of his Annals that near them stood the Villa Sublacense of Nero in the confines of Tivoli from which Lakes the Aniene running afterward through woods and mountains falls at last in the plain near Tivoli from high stones with fury and noise then it goes some space under ground and at the foot of the mountain returns all again above ground it runs through the three sulphurious veins called Albule from their white colour T is said and Strabo confirms the water there to be medicinal in drinking or Bathing and Pliny writes that they heal the wounded Nor does the Albule only but also the Albunea above Tivoli consolidate wounds Regarding the Campania of Tivoli about the Aniene you will find huge stones encreased by little and little in long time by vertue of the waters running by and in the bottome of Lakes there you 'l find of hard stones generated by the same means In this confine are many footsteps of old edifices worthy contemplation Tivoli having been a most noble City and well Inhabited through the beauty of its scite the goodnesse of its soyle and the salubrity of the aire which made it be surrounded with the fair Villa's and Lordly houses of the rich persons of that Country although now like Rome and all Italy also it lies waste and ruinated by the various warrs and successes which have destroyed it T is certain that Greeks were the builders of this City but who they were is not certain the writers of the Italian antiquities not agreeing herein yet the greater part say that Catillo was its founder who some say was of Arcadia and Captain of Evanders Navy Others affirm Argiv●…s the son of Amfiardo the Southsayer after the prodigious death of his Father near Thebes came by command of the oracle with his family and Gods long before the Trojane warr into Italy and by the assistance of the Enotri Aborigeni drove the Sic●…li out of that place naming the Castle taken from them Tib●…re from his eldest sons name Nor does Pliny much disagree from this though he does not wholly agree with it for in the 16th of his natural History writing of the ages of Trees he saies that in his time there stood 3 Holme Trees by Tivoli near to which Tiburtio the builder of that Castle had received augure to build it But saies he was the Nephew not the Son of Amfiardo and that he came with his two Brothers Lora and Catillo one age before the Trojane warr and that he there caused the Castle to be built calling it after his own name because he was the elder in which opinion Virgil in his AEneides seems to concur but Horati●…s on the other part calls Tivoli the walls of Catillus pursuing the others opinion from which expressions we conjecture that the City Tivoli was before Rome Those of Tivoli held Hercules in reverence above the other idols as Protector of the Graecian people at whose festivity infinite people resorted thither In it was also a Temple for the Sorti lotts or chances no lesse famous for their oracles then that in Bura or in Achaia a countrey of Morea mentioned by Pausanias whence the Poet Statius saies that such was the beauty of the place that even the Sorti Prenestini would have chosen it for giving their answers had not Hercules first possessed the place Th●…se are his words Quod que in templa d●…rent alias Tyrinthia sortes Et Prenestinae poterant migrare sorores He calls the Sorti Sisters for that good and bad Fortune were reverenced as two Sisters T is thought that Temple under the mountain in the way of Tivoli was that famous Temple of Hercules but this people had another Temple dedicate to the same God yet called Hercules Saxanus as appears by the subsequent inscription found in a Piazza attaqued to a particular house Herculi Saxano sacrum Ser. Sulpicius Trophimus AEdem Zothecam Culinam Pecunia sua a Solo Restituit Eidem Dieavit K. Decemb. L. Tupilio Dextro M. Maccio Rufo Cos. Euthycus Ser. Peragendum Curavit But we cannot conclude with certainty where this other Temple stood yet many agree that t was called Hercules Saxanus in respect t was built with stone differing from the other greater Temple just as the Milanesi called one Hercules in Pietra from the scituation of that Church in a stony place near them Upon the stone ariseth a certain antient round Fabrick without covering built wi●…h marble in rare architecture of much esteem which possibly might be the Temple of Hercules Saxanus t is near the Cataracts which augments this suspicion for that the Antients usually placed their Temples consecrate to Hercules near waters long ports and violent falls of waters to the end that Hercules by them esteemed the Protector of the firm Land might cause the water to continue in its limits and not infest the country with inundations the which Statius clearly shewsin the 11th Book of woods speaking of the Villa 〈◊〉 of his Pollius which stood on the sea shore near a port with a Temple of Hercules and another of Neptune neare it whose verses now take Ante domum tumidae moderator caerulus undae Excubat innocui custos laris Hujus amico Spumant Templa salo foelicia jura tuetur Alcides gaudet gemino sub nomine portus Hic servat terras hic saevis fluctibus obstat He feigns also in his third book that Hercules having layed aside his arms laboured much in preparing the foundations of his Temple in that place and with great strength prepa●…ed the instruments for digging the earth for thus the Pagans or Gentiles beleived viz that Hercules during his life went through the world operating for the publick good of Mankind what ever was difficult or laborious to be effected as not only in the taming and killing of Monsters ●…emoving Tyrants reducing unjust Lords to the terms and conditions of Justice and chastising the bad and evil ones But also in building of Castles and Cities in desert places ports and securities for shipping on dangerous shores reducing bad and irksome waies into good changing the chanels of damnifying Rivers breaking the course of the waters where requisite for preservatiō of the firm Land setling peace between disagreeing nations with just Laws opening the method way of dealing and negotiating between people far eloigned from one another and insum reducing into a state of civility such as were wilde and fierce wherefore they built him Temples created him a God and devoutly honoured him giving him several surnames according to the diversity of the places where they adored him or the quality of the benefits which the people held they received from him or according to some great work which they supposed he had done Whence the western parts of the world had Hercules Gaditani when on the north side of the straight called of old Fretum Herculeum was Mount Calpe on the South

Sea this fish bears a great price in May or June as also of the sword fish particularly at Messina which t is written they cannot take unlesse they speak Greek and to say no more both the Seas and the Rivers abound with all sorts of excellent fish They have also in divers places many baths of hot cool sulphurous and other sorts of water usefull and advantagious in several Infirmities but those are in the River Sen●…ntina near the Cities Sacra and Himera are salt and un wholsome to drink We will not speak of the Fountains of sweet water that are found over all Sicilia and many Rivolets accommodated as well for the life of Man as the enriching their Lands by the overflowing And to speak in brief this Island is not at all inferiour to any other Province either for its fatnesse or abundance but somewhat exceeds Italy in the excellency of their grain saffron honey Beasts skins and other sustenance for the life of Man in so much that Cicero not improperly called it the Granary of the Romans and Homer said that all things grew there of their own accord and therefore calls it the Isle of the Sun Sicilia is likewise admirable for the fame of those things which told exceed our beleef as the Mount Etna Mongibello who sending forth continual fires from its bowels hath not withstanding its head on that part where the fire issues deeply covered in snow to the midst of Summer Not far from Agrigento or Gergento is the Territory Matharuca which with assidu al vomiting of divers veins of waters sends forth a certain Ash coloured Earth and at certain times casting out an incredible Mass of that Earth the one and the other Fields may be heard to roar In Menenino is the Lake Nastia called by Pliny ●…fintia where in three eddies you behold boyling water which alwaies gurgles with an egregious stink and somtimes spues up flames of fire hither antiently resorted all such as through their superstition were to be sworn to any thing It hath likewise in sundry other places divers other Fountains of admirable Qualities and nature for an ample account whereof the reader is referred to Thomaso Fazellio to the end we may abridge our relation here Sicily was inhabited by the Cyclopes which is verified besides what Authors affirm by the bodies of immense bignesse and heigth which in our daies are seen in the Grots or Caves Those Cyclopes being monsters of Men or Gyants whom the Sicani succeeded and them the Siculi or Sicilians Then the Trojans the Candiots the Phenici the Calcidonians the Corinthians and other Greeks the Zanclei the Guidii the Sarasini the Normans the Lombards the Swedes the Germans the French the Arragonians the Spaniards the Catalonians the Genouans and at length many Pisans Lucchesians Bolognians and Florentines all which people at several times inhabited divers parts of this Island untill Charls the fifth Emperor took Corona and after a little time leaving it to the Turks all those Greeks that dwelt there transported themselves into Sicilia The People are of an acute and quick wit noble in their inventions and industrious by nature and said to be of three tongues for their velocity in speech wherein their expressions proceed with much grace to facetiousnesse and quicknesse they are held loquacious beyond measure whence the Antients borrowed the proverb Gerrae Siculae the Sicilian bablings Antient writers attribute the following things to the invention of the Sicilians the art of Oratory the Bucolick or pastoral verse dyall making the Catapul●…e a warlike engine the illustrating of Pictures the Art of Barbing the use of skins of wilde beasts and Ryme They are by nature suspectfull envious evil spoken facil to speak Villany and prone to revenge but industrious subtle flatterers of Princes and studious of Tyranny as saies Orosie which at this day does not so generally appear They are more covetous of their own commodities or conveniences then of the publiques and reflecting on the abundancy of the Countrey sloathfull and without industry Antiently their tables were so splendidly furnished that it became a Proverb among the Greeks but now they follow the frugality of Italy They are valiant in warrs and of uncorruptible faith to their King beyond the custōme of the Greeks they are patient but provoked they leap into extream fury They speak the Italian Language but roughly and without the least sweetnesse and in their habits and other customes live after the manner of the Italians MESSINA THat City of Sicilia that is most illustrious is Messina built with the ruines and reliques of the City Zancla at a thousand paces distance from hence came Dicearchus the hearer of Aristotle the most celebrious Peripatetick Geometritian and eloquent Oratour who wrote many books whereof Fazellius makes mention and Ibicus the Historian and the Lyrick Poet and in the memory of our Fathers times lived there Cola the Fish born at Catana who leaving human society consumed the best part of his life among the fish in the sea of Messina whence he acquired the nick name of fish Hence came also Giovanni Gatto of the preaching order a Philosopher Divine and famous Mathematician who read in Florence Bologna and Ferrara and was afterwards elected Bishop of Catano and lastly hence came Gio Andrea Mercurio a most worthy Cardinal of the holy Church Here stood the City Taurominio which gave birth according to Pausanias to Tisandro Son of Cleocrito who four times overcame in the Olympick Games and as many times in the Pythick and Timeus the historian son of Andromacus who wrote of the transactions in Sicilia and Italy and of the Theban warrs CATANA IT hath also the City Catana one part whereof is washed by the Sea and the other extends it self to the foot of the Mountains where antiently was the Sepulture or burying place for famous and illustrious persons as of Stesicorus the Poet Himerese Xenofane the Philosopher and of two young Brothers Anapia and Anfinomo who the fire of AEtna raging and burning all the Countrey round took up upon their shoulders the one his Father the other his Mother but being disabled by the weight to proceed with speed and the fire overtaking them and at their very feet yet lost not their magnan imity and courage but when almost in despair the fire on a suddain divided it self before them and so they miraculously escaped safe In this City is a Colledge for all the sciences but most particularly they here study the Civil and Canon Laws and from her have issued many illustrious persons as Santa Agatha which the Palermitans will call of their City a Virgin Martyr who under Quintiano in the yeer of our salvation 152 suffered Martyrdome for Christ and Carondo the Philosopher and Legislator and he that was reputed the great Magus Diodorus or Liodorus Hence came also Nicolo Todisco called the Abbot or Panormitano the great Cnnonist and Cardinal who wrote so many books of the Canon Laws