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 crowns a year. They keep two Coaches, live very nobly, and lodge all Spanish Embassadours, Cardinals, and Prelats of their Nation that passe this way. In the Colledge you see the Pictures of many great Statesmen and Cardinals, and others, who have been of this Colledge: but no Picture pleased me like that of their brave Founder, Noble Cardinal Albernozzo which is in the Church, and representing him in the same posture he was in, when he recovered all the Popes state in Italy, unto the Pope then at Avignon; of which I have spoken sufficiently above in describing Avignon.

15. The two Towers here in the midst of the Town, the one very high and straight, called, De gli Asinelli; the other low and bending, called, La Carisenda. They would make us beleeve that this bending Tower was made crooked a purpose; and its strange to see how most men make it their business rather to see this low crooked Tower, then the other, which is both higher and straighter. But there's