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Part I. The Schools.

13. The Great Schools her where the Doctors of the University read, are stately both within, and without.

The Spanish College.

14. The Spanish College founded here by noble Cardinal Albernozzo, deserves to be taken notice of. It's well built with a handsome Church and five Priests to serve it. The intention of his College is to furnish all the King of Spains dominions in Italy with able Magistrates and Officers of Justice. None can live in it but Natural Spaniards (except the Chaplains,) and those Spaniards must be Doctors of the Law before they can be admitted here; they only learn the Language and Customs of the Countries, and perfect themselves in the study of the Law, that they may be fit to fill up the first vacant places of Judicature that fall either in the State of Milan, in the Kingdom of Naples, or in Sicily. They have a revenue of twelve thousand Crowns a year. They keep two Coaches, live very nobly and lodge all Spanish Embassadours, Cardinals and Prelates of their Nation that pass this way. In the College you see the Pictures of many great Statesmen and Cardinals and others who have been of this College: 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.

The two Towers.

15. The two Towers here in the midst of the Town, the one very high and straight, called