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96 The Domo.

10. The Domo, which is not yet half finished neither: yet that which is finished, promiseth fair for the rest.

Other Churches.

11. The New Church of S. Paul hath a curious High Altar. In the Church of S. Giovanni in Morte is the rare Picture of S. Cecily of the hand of Raphael Urbin. The Jesuits Church, the Church of S. Stephen and that of the Passion deserve to be seen.

The Legat's Palace.

12. After the Churches and Monasteries, we went on with visiting the rest of the Town, and saw the Palace of the Popes Legate: in this Palace I saw the rare Cabinet and Study of Aldrovandus, to whom Pliny the Second if he were now alive, would but be Pliny the Sixth, for he hath printed six great Volumes of the natures of all things in nature: each Volume being as big as all Pliny's works.

Aldrovandus his Study and Cabinet.

They shewed me here two or three hundred Manuscripts, all of this Mans own hand-writing, and all of them Notes out of the best Authors; out of which Notes he compiled his six great Volumes which are now in print. Seeing these Manuscripts, I asked whether the Man had lived three hundred years, or no, as it's said Joannes de Temporibus in Charles the Great's time did: but it was answered me, that he lived only four score and three: a short age for such a long Work: but it sheweth us how far a Man may travel in Sciences in his Life time if he rise but betimes, and spur on all his Life time with obstinate Labour. Certainly had he wrote before Solomons time, Solomons would have changed his saying, and instead offending the slothful Man to learn of the Pissmire how to labor, he would have sent him to Aldrovandus his Studyand Example: Vade ad Aldrovandum piger.