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and the Torlonia the Villa Conti belongs to-day to Duke Torlonia. In 1607 Cardinal 

 Tolomeo de Come, Bishop of Tusculum, sold the villa to Cardinal Seipione Borghese, and 

 it afterwards belonged to Cardinals Altemps and Ludovisi. It was only in 1632 that it was 

 bought by the Conti. This family has given to Rome twenty-three Popes, three anti-Popes, 

 four saints, twenty-two cardinals and a whole bevy of martyrs, bishops, abbots and senators. 



Among those who lived here in other days was Henry, Cardinal of York, who, on the death 

 of his brother, Charles Edward, caused himself to be proclaimed King of England by the title 

 of Henry IX. He lived forty-two years at Frascati, of which he was the bishop ; there is a 

 monument erected by him to his brother in the cathedral, and a bust of himself in the library 

 which he founded. E. M. P. 



