knowledge it publickly to be their distinctive name: witness that solemne meeting at Munster, some years agoe, about the General Peace of Christendome, where the Publick Instrument of that Peace sheweth plainly how that the Protestant Plenipotentiaries (the wisest men of that Religion) treated with the Papists, as some call them, under the name of Catholicks: and though in many other titles and denominations, they were very wary and scrupulous, even to the long suspension of the Peace, yet they willingly concluded, subscribed, and signed that Peace made with them, under the name of Catholicks. I say this onely, for to make men understand, what the true name of the Religion practised over all Italy is, to wit, Catholick.
Having said thus much of Italy in general, I will now come to a particular Description of it, according to the ocular observations I made of it in five several Voyages through it. In which Description, if I be a little prolixe, it is because I rid notPoste
