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Part I. The Nobility.

17. These fine Houses are full also of Nobility, and I remember to have seen here at a Corso di Paglio upon Midsummer day, the long great street lined quite through with Coaches on both sides, and those Coaches double lined with 'Ladies and Cavaliers of ''Garbo. Indeed it would be pity, that such a stately Town as Bologna, should like Leyden in Holland, be full only of Hanses and Boren.''

The Traffick.

18. Their Traffick here consisteth much in Silks, Velvets, Olives, Leather Bottles, Gellies, Washballs, and little Dogs for Ladies, which here are so little, that the Ladies carrying them in their Muffs have place enough for their hands too.

The Markets.

19. Their Markets here are also exquisitely good for all provisions of Mouth, witness their Salsicci only, which are a regalo for a Prince.

The Academy of Wits.

20. But that you may not think them better fed, than taught; they have erected here an Academy of Wits, called Gli Otiosi, or Idlemen, by a Figure of Rhetorick called a Lye, or, per antiphrasin, because they are not idle. It's this Academy (I believe) which hath helped to set out three rare Modern Writers of this Town, Cardinal Bentivoglio, the Marquiss of Malvezzi, and John Baptista Manzini; the first, the Titus Livius of his age, the second, the Lucius Florus of his age; and the third, the Marcus Tullius of his time. To whom I may add Leandro Alberti, the Camden of Italy.

The Historians.

21. He that desires to know the particular History of Bologna, let him read Bartholomeo, Galeotti, and Giovanni Garzo, where he shall