Chap. III. 
Greatefl 'Part 0/ I T a L y. 
Perfon on the Crofs. They have alfo a St. Lawrence^ 
by Titian ; and fome Defigns of Rubens and Albert 
Durer^ which are valued at a high Rate, and are very 
fine. 
From this Afcent you have the moft delightful Prof- 
peel that can be well conceiv’d ; you have at one View 
the Sea and many Iflands, and among thefe that of Ca- 
fre<£^ the famous Seraglio of Tiberius^ as likewife the 
whole City of Naples^ with its three Caftles, viz. of the 
Egg, the new Caftle, and that of St. Elmo 5 the Har- 
bour, Mole, and Lantern •, and along the Sea-fhore, 
the Creeks and Inlets mix’d with little Capes, as alfo 
a great Number of Villages built along the Sea-fide j 
towards the Land-fide, the Gardens and fertile Hills 
leading into Campania Felice are the moft agreeable Ob- 
jects in the World ; and at a greater Diftance you 
may behold the horrible Smoke of Mount Vefuvius. 
To deferibe all the Relicks, Statues, or miraculous 
Images, as they ftile them, would be endlefs ; I will 
only mention a few of them : At St. Lewis they keep 
fbme of the Virgin’s Milk, which becomes liquid on all 
our Lady’s Feftivals ; at St. John Carbonara, the Blood 
of St. Januarius is boil’d up when any one approaches 
his Shrine, as the Blood of St. John BaptiB (preferv’d 
at St. Maria Donna Romita ) does, whilft they fay Mafs 
for his Beheading. I pals by the Pieces of the true 
Croft, the Nails, the Branches of the Crown of Thorns, 
the Images faid to be made by St. Luke., and fuch-like 
Rarities. At St. Dominick the Greater., they Ihew the 
Crucifix that fpoke to St. Thomas Aquinas •, and another 
in that of the Benedibiins, which, if you v/ill believe 
them, fpoke more to Pope Pius V. At the Church of 
St. Agnello., in the Chapel of the Monad., they fiiew you 
alfo a fpeaking Crucifix, with a long infeription under- 
neath relating to the Story ; and another in the fame 
Church, which, they tell you, ufed to hold Dialogues 
with Jane the Mother of St. Agnello, and with St. Ag- 
nello himfelf ; this they ftile the Image of St. Mary of 
Inter cejfion. Among the miraculous Crucifixes here, that 
of St. Mary of the Carmelites muft not be palled by in 
Silence j for when D. Pedro d'Arragon befieg’d Naples 
in 1439, bow’d its Head at the Sight of a Cannon- 
ball, which only beat off the Crown of the Crucifix. 
The Churches contain a vaft Number of Tombs and 
Epitaphs : In that of St. John the EvangeliB, are fix or 
fcven Epitaphs made by Joh. Jovianus Pontanus, among 
which one is for his Daughter Lucia, another for his 
Son, and two more for his Wife and himfelf. At St. 
Clara^s^ you fee the Epitaph of King Robert, firmamed 
the Good and the Wife. At St. Domin. maj. one for a 
Lord of the noble Family of Caraffa, and another for 
the Cardinal d^Ariano of the fame Houfe. In the Vef- 
try of this Church you fee many of the Tombs of 
the Kings and Queens of Naples, among which, thofe 
of Ifabel o^Arragon, Daughter of Alphonfus I. and Wife 
of John Galeazzo Duke of Milan, and of Joan the firft 
Queen of Jerufalem and both the Ticilies, deferve to be 
remember’d : The firft runs thus : 
feription upon the Tomb of a King of fe'z, who having 
embrac’d the Roman Faith, and fought under the Impe- 
rial and Spanijh Banners, died an hundred Years old in 
1641. The Tomb of Innocent IV. who died zt Naples 
in 1254, is to be feen in the Cathedral, with two long 
Epitaphs, one whereof is in Leonine Verfe. In the 
Church of St. Agnello is the following Epitaph for a 
Bilhop who refufed the Cardinal’s Cap. 
Sigifmundo Pappacuda Franc, F. Tropeienjiuni Presful I 
viro opt. Gf Jurifconfulto, qui cum in ccetum Cardina- 
lium fuiffet a Clemente VII, adfeitus, maluit in Pa- 
trice Epifeopus vivere. Vixit Ann. 80. M.- 6. Di 
10. Obiit 1536. 
In the Church of St. Severin of the BenedtBins, in the’ 
moft beautiful Chapel belonging to the Family of St. Se- 
verin, are to be feen the Tombs and inferiptions of three 
young Lords, Brothers, poyfon’d by their Uncle 5 as alfo 
that of their Mother, lamenting the untimely Death of 
her Sons. Diredlly oppofite to the Church of the Car- 
melites you fee a Kind of Chapel, ereefted by Order of 
Charles I. King of Naples, in the lame Place where he 
caufed the Head of the unfortunate Gonradin to be cut 
off, and at the lame Time that of his Coulin Frederick 
Marquifs of Baden and Duke of Aujiria, with five or fix 
other Lords, the whole Hiftory of which is painted in 
Frefco on the Infide of the Walls of the Chapel, in the 
IVIiddle of which Hands a Pillar of Porphyry, and round 
about it this Diftich : 
Afturis ungue Leo, pullum rapiens Aquilinum 
Hie deplumavit, Acephalumque dedit. 
The Carmelites Ihew’d us in their Convent the Place' 
where the famous Rebel Thomas Aniello (commonly cal- 
led Maffaniello) was flain, after he had been the 
Head of the Rebels eighteen Days : I have a Piece of 
Money that w'as coin d whilft this Rebellion lafted, with 
^is Infeription, P. ^ N. As we palfed by the 
Church of St. Mary major, our Condu6lor told us, there 
was a brazen Hog to be feen there, made by Pomponius 
Bilhop ot Naples ; it feems the Place where this Church 
now Hands was haunted by the Devil in the Shape of a 
Hog, which fo terrified the Inhabitants, that they left 
their Houfes, till this holy Bilhop being bid by the Vir- 
gin to build a Church for her in the fame Place, the 
infernal Hog difappear’d. 
10. The City of Naples having been fubjedl to fo ma- 
ny Mailers and various Revolutions, has loll the o-reateft 
Part of its Antiquities ; however, in the Front^ of St 
Paul major you Hill fee the Frontifpiece of the ancient 
Temple of Apollo, afterwards dedicated to Cajior and 
Pollux by one Tiberius Julius Tarfus, his Name beino- 
to this Day diftinaiy to be feen on one of the Friefes 
of this Frontilpiece. 
tibepios ioyaios tapsos- 
Hie Ifabella jacet, centum fata fanguine Regum' 
^dcum Majejlas Itala prifea jacet ; 
Sol qui lufrabat radiis fulgentibus orbem, 
Qccidit, inque alio nunc agit Orbe diem. 
Obiit die ii Pebr. 1524, 
The fecond thus : 
Inclyta Paythenopes jacet htc Regina Joanna 
Prima ; pritis feelix, mox miferanda nimis 
Ejuam Carolo genitam, mulBavit Carolus alter 
Elud morte ilia virum fujiulit ante fuum. 
She was the Daughter of Charles of Sicily, Duke of Ca- 
labria, and was ftrangled by Charles D liras, whom Ihe 
had adopted, and who rebelling againft her, acculed 
her of having ftrangled Andrew of Hungary, her firft 
Husband, whofe Tomb is to be feen in the Cathedral. 
^ In the fame Place is alfo to be feen the Tomb and 
Epitaph of the famous Marquifs of Pifeara, by Ariojio ; 
and in the Church of Si. Mary of Concord, \ long In- 
The Portico refts upon eight twifted Pillars of the Co^ 
rinthian Order, and the Pediment is adorn’d with Balfb 
relievo, reprefenting the Deities. The Columns of the 
Rifiituta are faid to have been taken from the ancient 
Temple of Neptune. Here are alfo to be feen Ibme 
Ruins of an Amphitheatre, and an ancient Statue of the 
Nile upon a Crocodile. The Houfe of D. Diomedes 
Caraffa contains many Sculptures and ancient Inferip- 
tions ; in the Court you fee the Head and all the Creft 
of a brazen Horfe, that had no Bridle, which beino- 
an Emblem of the Liberty of Naples, whilft yet a 
Common-wealth, Hood in one of the great Places^ but 
King Conrad having order’d a Bit to be put on this 
Horfe, direfted the following Diftich to be fet on the 
Pedeftal : 
Hablenus effr^enis, Domini nunc pare t habems 
Rendomat hum aquus Parthenopenfs equum. 
On the Hill, where jt is fuppofed the ancient PaNofolis 
ftood, are a great many old Ruins, and divers Collec- 
ttems 
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