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M I s s o 'N^s Travels through the Book II, 
Oxm^ Schafa and Binder, 
Viele Weiher, wenig Kinder \ 
Slechte, Spaife and Trank 
Machet cikem das Tahr lang, 
i. e. O God, thro* thy Mercy, grant us Clothes and 
Hat 5 , Cloaks and Gowns, fat Calves and Goats, Oxen, 
Sheep and Bulls, many Wives, and few Children : 
Indifferent Meat and Drink makes the Tear pafs 
away very Jlowly. 
In the Arfenal, they tell you, the Pope preferves con- 
ftantly Arms for forty thoufand Foot and twenty thou- 
fand Horfe 5 but I am fure there were not half enough for 
that Number, and thofe very indifferent. I told you that 
the Pope may, with great Conveniency, defcend from 
the Vatican to St. Peter* 5 Church ; and on the other Side 
he may, with the fame Eafe, make a fecret Retreat from 
thence into the Caftle of St. Angelo, through a Gallery built 
by Alexander VI. It was Urban VIII. fortified it with four 
Baftions, unto which he gave the Names of the four Evan- 
gelifts. In the Chapel you fee a Pitffure reprefenting 
Pope Gregory I. proftrated at the Feet of an Angel that 
appear’d to him on the Top of the Moles Adriani, or 
Adrian*?, Maufolaum, and fheathing his Sword, foretold 
the Pope the Deliverance of the City of Rome from a 
moft violent PeftiJence 5 whence this Place received the 
Name of St. Angelo. 
In the little Arfenal belonging to this Caftle, we faw, 
befides the Papal Triple Crown, an Armoury full of 
prohibited Arms, taken, for the moft Part, from fuch 
unfortunate Perfbns as were executed on that Account. 
Among the reft, they lliew’d us the Piftols of Ranuccio 
Farnefe, Son and Heir of Alexander Farnefe, Duke of Par- 
ma and Governor of the Netherlands, who ufually carrying 
Piftols about him, contrary to the exprefs Prohibition of 
Sixtus V. who being a rigorous Perfon, and of a Dif- 
pofition very forward to maintain his Authority, or- 
der’d Ranuccio to be feized in one of the Chambers of 
the Palace, as he was going to defire Audience of his 
Holinefs, and to be carried Prifoner to the Caftle of St. 
Angelo. Cardinal Farnefe, Ranuccio*? Uncle, left no 
Stone unturn’d to procure his Liberty, but in vain ; for 
one Evening, about Ten o’Clock, whilft the Cardinal was 
foiiciting his Releafement with the Pope, he fent his Or- 
ders to the Governor of the Caftle of St. Angelo, to have 
the Prince Ranuccio beheaded : This done, the Pope not 
queftioning but that his Orders had been executed im- 
mediately, and willing to make a Shew of obliging the 
Cardinal, gave him a new Order about Eleven a 
Clock, enjoining the Governor of the Caftle to fet 
Kaccw at Liberty. The Cardinal, who knew nothing of 
the firft Order, made all the Hafte he could thither, but 
was highly furpriz’d when he found his Nephew pre- 
paring himfelf for prefent Death in the Arms of a Con- 
feffor, the only Reafon that had delay’d his Execution ; 
but the Cardinal, overjoy’d to have nick’d the Time fo 
exa6lly, and producing his new Order to the Governor, 
had his Nephew put into his Hands, who, by his Un- 
cle’s Procurement, took Poft immediately, and fo ef- 
caped the Hands of his Executioners. 
During our Stay here, there was a certain Prifoner of 
Note kept in the Caftle of St. Angelo, named Borri, a 
Gentleman of Milan, and a good Phyfician and Chy- 
mift, accufed of Herefy in receiving the Errors of the 
Collyridians in the fourth Age, who paid a Kind of 
Adoration to the Virgin, nay, fome fay that he made 
her a fourth Perfon in the Godhead : However, he has 
the Liberty of viliting fome of his Patients of the beft 
Quality in the City, being fuppofed not to be in his right 
Wits at certain Times. 
I am not well able to refolve your Queftion con- 
cerning Dr. Molinos, for though I have feen thofe Pro- 
pofitions that are faid to be his, yet will I not prefume 
to give my Judgment of them, unlefs I could hear Mo- 
linos himfelf; however, as they are publifhed, fome of 
them are dangerous, others ambiguous, feveral of them 
indifferent, and many very reafonable and orthodox. 
As to his Perfon, he has a very bad Charader, being 
reputed a Villain and lewd Fellow, who, by his pre- 
tended Infenfihility and Extafy, has deluded a great 
Nuniber of Nuns, of which they tell you a thoufand 
Storiesj which have procured him his ignominious Con- 
finement to a Cell for his Life. I have however ob- 
ferved, that his moft inveterate Enemies have a much 
better Opinion of his , Followers, who have embraced 
F^ietifm, and other Opinions you have heard fo often 
attributed to Molinos. 
2. The Queen of Sweden, ChriJUna Vafa, 'is a Princels 
about fixty Years of Age, of a low Stature, and very fat ; 
her Complexion, Voice, and Countenance are mafcu- 
line, with a great Nofe, large and blue Eyes, and yellow 
Eye-brows ; her double Chin is ftrew’d with fome few 
long Hairs, and her under Lip fticks out a little ; her 
Hair is of a light Chefnut Colour, of a hand-breadth 
long, powder’d and curl’d up in Puffs, without any 
other Head-drefs ; her Air is very pleafing, and feldom 
without a Smile. As for her Habit, imagine a Man’s 
Jufiaucor of black Sattin reaching to the Knees and 
button’d quite down ; a very fhort black Petticoat 
which plainly difcovers a Man’s Shoe ; a Knot of black 
Ribbon inftead of a Neckcloth, and a Girdle above 
the Jufiaucor, which fupports the Belly. The Queen 
having left us, we took a View of the Palace Riari her 
Refidence, where we met with many ancient Pieces 5 
the moft exquifite of them are, the Augustus, of the 
rareft tranfparent oriental Alabafter, but the Head and 
Feet are modern, and of Brafs gilt ; fixteen ancient 
Columns of Giallo, with two Pillars of tranfparent ori- 
ental Alabafter feven Foot high ; the Venus, whofe 
mangled Legs are fo admirably fupplied by new Pieces 
that the Joining is not to be perceived ; the Cajlor and 
Pollux on each Side of their Mother Eeda, all of one 
Piece of Marble ; the Sons are bigger than the Mo- 
ther : The Altar of Bacchus, of beautiful white Marble 
is adorn’d with moft exquifite Sculptures in Baffo re- 
lievo. Old Silenus going home drunk from the Feaft 
of his Fofter-child, fupported by two Men ; the Bac- 
chantes appearing in the Pofture of Mad-women. In 
another Place we faw a Goat flea’d alive, for cropping 
the Vines ; and a Boar, which is walh’d in order to be 
facrificed. 
Among the Pidlures, the Piece of Correggio, reprefent- 
ing the Intrigue of Jupiter with Leda in the Shape of a 
Swan, is exceeding fine ; as are the with the In- 
fant Jefus ; the little St. John, by Raphael ; and Danae, 
by Carrachio ; befides feveral other rare Pieces oi Titian, 
Paul Veronefe, Guido, and other great Mafters. It 
would be much beyond the Compafs of a moderate 
Treatife to enter upon a Defcription of all the rare Me- 
dals to be feen in this Palace, I will therefore content 
myfelf with mentioning only the beft : The Otho, of 
Brafs, an Egyptian Piece, with Serapis on the Reveril of 
it ; the Pertinax, a fmall Latin Medal, on the Reverfe 
whereof you fee that Emperor offering a Sacrifice ; the 
Antoninus Pius, another Latin Medal, having on the 
Reverfe Vidiory and Plenty offering him Fruit ; another 
little Medal of the fame Antonin, called by Mr. Bellori, 
I* Anno Nuovo, or, the New Tear, from the four Letters 
A. N. F. F. which he interprets Annum Novum, Faujlum, 
Fcelicem ; and a Medal of Nero, with Hercules on the 
Reverfe ; the Cicero, of Onyx, the Head white on a 
brown Ground, a moft curious Piece. But we will 
pafs from hence to fome other Curiofities ; In St. S^a- 
bina*? Church, on Mount Aventine, we faw a great 
Stone, which, they tell you, the Devil of Colen hurl’d 
down from the Top of an high arch’d Roof, to knock 
out St. Dominick*? Brains, after he had been difappoint- 
ed in his Defign of beating down the Chapel of the 
Three Kings. 
The Crucifix in St. Paul*? Church, which fpoke to 
St. Bridget, was the Work of P. Cavallini ; it was made 
in the Year 1360; befides which, they have feveral 
other talking Images at Rome, as, the Crucifix of St. 
Mary Iranfportin*?, which fpoke feveral Times to St. Pe- 
ter and St. Paul ; our Lady of St. Cofmo and Damian, 
fformerly the Temple of Remus and Romulus) which 
chid St. Gregory for paffing by without faluting her : 
They fhew you certain Latin Verfes (attributed by fome 
to the Abbot Joachim, by others to Beda) containing 
