40§ PIETRO GIANNONE. 



by reafon of his great age, or infirmities, be unable td 

 ride, and mull therefore be carried on a chair ; then 

 four great princes, or the emperor and kings, if pre- 

 fent, to do honour to Jefus Chrift, muft be his bear- 

 ers ; at leaft for a little while, till they are relieved by 

 four fervants of the pope *. In this proceffion, as 

 well as on all the journies that he takes, the pope is 

 accompanied by a conlecrated hoft, which is carried 

 in a cafe on a white horfe. When it happens that the 

 emperor dines with his holinefs, he is feated at the 

 right hand of the pope, at a feparate table, on a lit- 

 tle bench; but kings lit among the cardinals, in fuch 

 manner, that a cardinal takes the firft place, and after- 

 wards the kings and cardinals in alternate fucceffion -j*. 

 The emperor, or a king, mall bring the water to the 

 pope in which he walTies his hands, and then fhall 

 hare the honour to fet the firft dim upon the pontiFs 

 table. The fons and brothers of the emperor and the 

 kings are appointed to wait at the papal table till the 

 end of the dinner If, in my hiftory, I have not 

 difplayed this grand idea of the pope, I implore for« 

 givenefs. 



ft Si vero pontifex non equo, fed fella veberetur, quatuor majores 

 principes, etiamfi inter eos imperator aut quivis maximus pnnceps 

 adeffet, in honorem falvatoris noilri Jefu Chrifti, lellam ipfam cum 

 pontifice humeris fuis poi tare aliquantulum debent. Ibid. 



f p vex — ledet in menfa poll primum epifcopum cardinalem. — 

 Si plures adelfent reges, mixti erunt cum primis cardinalibus, pri- 

 moi cardinaiis, deinde rex fucceffive. 



$ Npbiiior laicus, enam imperator aut rex, aquam ad lavandas 

 pontificis manus primo ferat. — Primum ferculum portabit nobilior 

 princeps, five imperator five rex fit. — Pontifici fervire folent nobi- 

 liores qui funt in curia, laici, etiamfi fint fratres aut filii regum, 

 prasfertim in illorum pracfentia. 



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