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found there one and twenty years before; and yet in all my five Voyages into Italy, I found them alwayes kocking and making as much noise and dust, as if this Church should be finished within half a year, when as yet half of it is onely finished. In this Church Charles the V. was crowned Emperour by Clement the VII.

The Domo.10. The Domo, which is not yet half finished neither: yet that which is finished promiseth fair for the rest.

Other Churches.11.The new Church of S. Paul hath a curious High Altar. In the Church of S. Giovanni in Morte is the rare picture of S. Cecily of the hand of Raphael Urbin. The Jesuits Church, the Church of S. Stephen, and that of the Passion deserve to be seen.

The Legats Palace.12. After the Churches and Monasteries, we went on with visiting the rest of the Town, and saw the Pallace of the Popes Legate: in this Pallace I saw the rare Cabinet and Study of Aldrovandus, to whom Pliny the Second if he were now

alive,