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 devotions to his. I have read in the life of S. Charles Borromæus, that in a plague time, he visited those that were infected, and ministred the holy Sacraments to them himself in person; and went in a solemn Procession in the head of the Clergy, with a rope about his neck, and barefoot upon the stones, to move stony hearts to repentance, and to appease the wrath of God angry with his people.

16. The Biblotheca Ambrosiana is one of the best Libraries in Italy, because it is not so coy as the others, which scarce let themselves be seen; whereas this opens its dores publickly to all comers and goers, and suffers Them to read what book they please. It was begun to be builded by S. Charles, and continued by his Nephew Cardinal Federico Borromæo: but it was much augmented since by the accession of Vincentius Pinelli's books, which after his death, being shipped by his heirs for Naples, and taken by the Turks, were many of them thrown over board by those anal-