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 Village, Castle, high way of Italy, and where any famous battle was fought either in the Romans time, or since: A Gallery which I wish I had spent as many hours in, as I spent dayes in going up to Rome. Divers other galleries there are in this house which I pass over in silence.

14. But I cannot pass Over so the long Gallery leading to the Belvedere, in which is kept the Conclave of all Popes: in this one great room, fifty, or threescore, Cardinals lodge and have every one two Chambers, one for himself, and the other for his Conclavist, Exungue Leonem, you may judge by this what the whole house is; or else by this what they assure you, when they tell you, that there are 5 thousand chambers in that Palace.

15. From the middle of the foresaid gallery, you enter into the Vatican Library, famous all the learned world over, for having in it, besides the Registers of the Roman Church the choicest manuscripts of the world in holy languages. This Ba-