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Laurence, built like that of Sancta Sophia in Constantinople. Here lies buryed Placidia the Sister of Honorius the Emperour.

11. There are divers other Churches here, all worth particular visiting, by reason of some rare thing in them: as in that of S. Mark, the rare peece of Simon Magus his fall from the skyes. In that of the Passion the rare picture of the last Supper, by Chrystophoro Cibo. In that of S. Celso, a rare picture of Raphaels hand in the Sacristy. The Theatins, and the Jesuits Churches are very neat.

The Domo.12. But the best of all the Churches of Milan is the new Domo, in the midst of which lyeth buryed the new S. Ambrose of Milan; I meane S. Charles Borromæus, an other S. Ambrose in Pastoral dignity, zeal, and sanctity. This Church I take to be the second in Italy for solid work; being built all of white marble, with Iles and Pillars, Each Pillar worth ten thousand crowns, & there are a hundred and threescore

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