592 SUMMARY OF CUERENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



From the Cardinal of Santa Susanna to Peiresc : — 



"Kome, September 16th, 1623. — I would have been very happy to receive the 

 two occliiali which you l]ad entrusted to Father D. Giovanni, but which I believe 

 will not be brought by the Father, and nevertheless 1 wish that my obligations to you 

 be increased, &c., &o." 



From the Cardinal of Santa Susanna to Peiresc : — 



" Eome, September 25th, 1623. — About Father D. Giov. di San Paolo Vassano, 

 ■who was to have brought the KufHerian occhiale, I never heard further than what 

 your Lordship wrote me, and provided he arrives some day, it will matter little, 

 although he may delay some months." 



From Peiresc to Aleandro : — 



"Most Illustrious and Honoured Sir, — There has just now reached me a little 

 bos from Father Vassano, containing the occhiale with his letters, and at the 

 same time the Avignon courier passing, I did not wisli to let him go by without 

 sending you the said little box. Your Lordship will do me the kindness to receive 

 it and talie the occhiale to the Illustrious Cardinal of Santa Susanna and show him 

 the use of it, if you can put it together by what I wrote concerning it; there were 

 other letters of introduction for the said Father, to different friends, to whom I believe 

 I mentioned the occhirile, thinking that the Father could show it to all. I do not 

 know whether they will be in the box or not, having no time to look it through more 

 particularly. Your Lordship will be able to send them if so pleases you, by making 

 the occhiale the excuse ; I think I wrote about it to liis Holiness at the time he was 

 only a Cardinal, thinking he might experience pleasure in seeing the said occhiale, 

 and perhaps it will be better not to send him the letter, in order not to oblige the 

 Cardinal of Santa Susanna to send the occhiale I liad given him, that he may not run 

 the risk of having to make a gift of it. I leave all to your discretion and many times 

 kiss your hands. Aix, November 17th, 1623. — Your most Illustrious Lordship's 

 aifectionate and grateful servant, Di Peieesc." 



(On the margin of the leaf on the left and across.) " My secretary has just assured 

 me that I wrote nothing about the occhiale to the Illustrious Cardinal Barberino, 

 and that I only recommended Father Vassano, so that it does not matter whether the 

 letter is given or nut." 



From Peiresc to Aleandro : — 



"Aix, 7th December, 1623. — Most Illustrious and Honoured Sir,— The ordi- 

 nary courier to Aviguon was passing by this towu in the greatest hurry at the very 

 moment that a box fjom the Rev. Father Dom. Giov. di San Paolo was being con- 

 signed to me, containing the occhiale and the letters accompanying it. Which box I 

 closed at once, looking at nothing but the Father's letter, and I consigned the whole 

 to the above mentioned courier, who persisted in going on his way and scarcely 

 allowed me to write two liups to your Lordship, whilst another person was closing 

 the box. I recommended the same to Mes;?rs. Otto, and M. Anto. Lumaga of Genoa, 

 to whom your Lordship may henceforth forward whatever you wish to send me, 

 that way being shorter than the route by Lyons. The same courier passed 

 again last Sunday, and he brought me an answer from Genoa, from those Messrs. 

 Lumaga, that the box had arrived in good condition, and that they had consigned it 

 to a courier, a friend of theirs, to take it to your Lordship or to Sig. Eschinardo. I 

 rejoice in believing that it has now reached you, and that your Lordship will have 

 found out how the said occhiale can be used, and especially the little one, which is 

 very easily used and has an effect not far inferior to the large occhiale." 



Letter of the Cardinal of Santa Susanna to Peiresc : — 



"Eome, December 26th, 1623.— Most Illustrious and Revered Sir, — I have to 

 hand two of your Lordship's letters, the one of which represented to me the good 

 state of your health, since you have retired from exercising your charge in the 

 Parliament of Paris, for which I have felt the comfort that becomes the great aifection 

 I bear you, and the continual desire which I have for your welfare; the other has 

 been brought to me with the occhiale ; how dear this is to me your Lordship will 

 understand by the desire with which I expected it, expressed to you in my letters. 

 I would like you to recognize this fact more thoroughly by some act of mine in your 

 service. But until an opportunity to do so is given to me, I will beg you to be satis- 

 fied with my thanks, whicli I now here render you for your courtesy. I will 

 experiment on the occhiale with Signor Aleandro, and I will make use of this 

 beautiful invention. May the Lord preserve and prosper your Lordship as I 

 desire it. D.V-S. Rome. xxvj. December, 1G23.— At your service, S. Car. di 

 . Slsanna.' 



