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The Voyage

11. The great room gilt overhead, where the Pope treats at dinner great Princes when they come to Rome.

12. The old appartiment of Pius Quintus; with the great wooden bed or rather the little wooden chamber of Paulus Quintus.

A rare piece of perspective.13. The rare piece of perspective over the door of the long room leading to the gallery of maps. At the first looking upon it, you see nothing but certain types, or figures of the blessed Sacrament out of the Old Testament, but being placed directly under it, and looking upwards, you see all the foresaid types contracted into the form of a Calice and an host over it; to shew, that those old types and shadows prefigured only the body and blood of our Saviour in the holy sacrifice of the Altar.

The rare Gallery of Maps.14. The long gallery of the maps of Italy painted upon the walls on both sides by Paulus Brillus a Flemming and others; and that so distinctly that you see plainly every State, Province, City, River,Vil-