THE VILLA TORLONIA. 
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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 Scipione 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 w'hich 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- P- 
