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 surch Pillars in all, of massive white marble; not candied and frozen over with a thin crust of marble, as most of the other fine Churches of Italy are. There are also six hundred white marble Statues set round about the out-side of this Church, each of them cost a thousand crowns. That of S. Bartholomeus with his skin upon his arm; and that of Adam, are two pieces much admired, and are of the hand of Christophero Cibo. The Frontispice is not yet finished: but if that be the true design of it, which I have seen in pictures, in the Capuchins Cloister in Rome, it will be most stately. The Church it self is said to be 250 cubits long. Near the Quire, and almost in the middle of the Church, lyeth the body of S. Charles Borromeus in a low Vault, turned now into a Chappel, open at the top with low rayles round about it; The inside of this Chappel is hung with hangings of cloth of gold, over which runs a Cornish of silver plate nailed to the wall. Upon the Altar, lyeth the body of S. Charles at length in