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in Tefaro, Fano, Senigallia,
the Horror of an Action that would be
resented by all the Catholick Princes of
Europe, will be as great a Security to the
Place as the strongest Fortification. It
is indeed an amazing thing to see such a
prodigious Quantity of Riches lye dead,
and untouch’d in the midfl: of so much
Poverty and Misery as reign on all sides
of’em. There is no question, how-
ever, but the Pope would make use of
these Treasures in case of any great Cala-
mity that Ihould endanger the Holy See 5
as an unfortunate War with the lurk,or a
powerful League among the Protestants.
For I can’t but look on those vail Heaps
of Wealth, that are amass’d together in
so many Religious Places of Italy, as the
hidden Reserves and Magazines of the
Church, that (he would open on any
pressing Occasion for her last Defence
and Preservation. If these Riches were
all turn’d into current Coin, and em-
ploy’d in Commerce, they would make
Italy the molt ssourifliing Country in
Europe. The Case of the Holy House
is nobly design’d, and executed by the
great Mailers of Italy, that ssourish’d
about a hundred Years ago. The Sta-
tues of the Sibyls are very finely wrought,
each of ’em in a different Air and Po-
flure, as are likewise those of the Pro-
phets .
the Horror of an Action that would be
resented by all the Catholick Princes of
Europe, will be as great a Security to the
Place as the strongest Fortification. It
is indeed an amazing thing to see such a
prodigious Quantity of Riches lye dead,
and untouch’d in the midfl: of so much
Poverty and Misery as reign on all sides
of’em. There is no question, how-
ever, but the Pope would make use of
these Treasures in case of any great Cala-
mity that Ihould endanger the Holy See 5
as an unfortunate War with the lurk,or a
powerful League among the Protestants.
For I can’t but look on those vail Heaps
of Wealth, that are amass’d together in
so many Religious Places of Italy, as the
hidden Reserves and Magazines of the
Church, that (he would open on any
pressing Occasion for her last Defence
and Preservation. If these Riches were
all turn’d into current Coin, and em-
ploy’d in Commerce, they would make
Italy the molt ssourifliing Country in
Europe. The Case of the Holy House
is nobly design’d, and executed by the
great Mailers of Italy, that ssourish’d
about a hundred Years ago. The Sta-
tues of the Sibyls are very finely wrought,
each of ’em in a different Air and Po-
flure, as are likewise those of the Pro-
phets .