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 a whole troop of Centuriators. For my part, I reckon it among my felicities, to have lived after Baronius, and to have spent a good part of three years study, in reading his sacred Annals, which cost him ten times three years study in writing. And here I could enter into a fair field of his praises; and like the eagle, in the story, having nothing else to give him; give him a feather, that is one cast of my pen; but that I write of countries now, and not of men; and that his full praises may be included in those three short encomium; Ecclesia Cocles; Cesar Christianus; Obis Locupletator. The house of these good priests deserves also to be seen, for the Libraries' sake, which is one of the best in Rome, and for the great Oratories' sake; where there is every Sunday and Holy-day in winter at Night, the best music in the world.

From hence I went to the church de la Pace, a neat Church, and adorned with excellent painting and Statues. Here many famous painters have signaliz’d their memories, as Peruzzzi of Siena, Vasaria, Lavinia, a Lady of Bologna, Fontana, Genteleschi, Cavalier Gioseppe, Rossi, and Raphael Urbin himself, who painted the prophets and sybils in the chapel of Augustino Chigi: and some think that he made the little boys that are so well done. The statues of St Peter and St Paul are of the Hand of Michelangelo.

Going from hence through the Street of the Stationers, I came to Piazza di Pasquino, which is thought to be the very center of Rome. And here I cannot forget Pasquin himself, who forgets no Man. This Pasquin is an old broken Statue,