Browne, Edward: A Brief Account Of Some Travels In divers Parts of Europe, Viz. [Sp.1:] Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, [Sp.2:] Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli: Through a great part of Germany, And The Low-Countries ... ; With some Observations on the Gold, Silver ... in those Parts ; As also, The Description of many Antiquities, Habits, Fortifications and Remarkable Places (London: Tooke, 1685)

A Journey from Venice io Genoa.

The odor ick,the Conqueror of Italy and great King of the Goths lived long
here. Placidia, daughter of Valent inian, the third, and of Eudoxia, lived
the latter part of her time,dyed here and was buried in the Church of St.
Stephen,which was formerly their Cathedral in which Church lye also
buried one and twenty Bishops of Verona, forty Martyrs put to death
in Dioclefians Persection, and four of the Innocent Children. But
there are other things which st ill add to the beauty of this City.

TJrlilus Italice praeflat Verona ^perils,
AEVUrns,Ingenio} Flumine, Monte, Lacu.

i. e.

Hills, Rivers, Lakes, Buildings and Arts do grace
Noble Verona above any place.
The Lacies Benacus, or Lago di Garda, is a Very considerable Lake,
near this place, which flretches it self from Pefchiera, on the South,
Thirty five Italian Miles to the North, and is in some places Fourteen
Miles broad, and the Winds often blowing fiercely from the Neigh-
bouring Hills, make it rough, and troublesome, like a Sea.
EluG.il us & sremitu, afsurgens, Benace, marlno.
Cleopatra had once a design to carry her Ships and Vessels cross the
Country through ALgypt, out of the Mediterranean into the Red-Sea,
over that Isthmus, or neck of Land, which divides Asrica from Asia,
which would have been a notable exploit: yet considering that EEgypt
is a ssat Country, which renders the design more feasible, and that the
Territory about this Lake is very Hilly, it is an adbion no less to be ad-
mired, which the Venetians effectually persormed, when they brought
their Ships and Galleys out of the Adriatick over Land into the Lago
di Garda, to engage in a Naval Fight, upon this notable Lake, with
Filippo Vifconte, Commander of the Milan Forces.
There are divers haodsonl Towns and Villages upon the side of the
Lacus Benacus, as Lacijlum, Bardolinum, famous for the pleasant Bar-
dolin Figgs, Garda, which gives it the modern name, Malfefenum, Rip a,
Tufculanum, where there are (till some remains of old Benacus, which
gave it the ancient appellation, Maternum, Salodium, Dfentianum, a po-
pulous Place, and of good Accommodation, Pifcheria, through which
the River Mincius passes, and lastly the ruines of old Sirmio, upon a
neck of Land, which runs into the Lake, where Rood formerly the be-
loved pleasing /VZ/a of Catullus.
Peninsularum Sirmio, Infalar unique
Ocelle, &c.
The best Fish in this Laky are the Eels, the Trouts, and a Fish pe-
culiar to it, called a Carpione, which is thought to delight in some par-
ticular Earth, Soyl, or Mineral at the bottom thereof, seeing that it will
not easily live, and thrive in any other place.
After the negligent reign of Gallienus, when the Thirty Tyrants
sprung-up, and the remote Provinces of the Empire had taken the li-
berty