WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

11 lence, with his company, came early j when h a l- ving pad the large Court, famous for the Sculp* ture about it, he was led to a magnificent Stair-* cafe, which brought him into a more magnifi- cent Hal,l where the Cardinal receiv d his Excel- lence ; and by the Antichambers, conducting him through the reft of the Palace, fhow'd him the ineftimable Collections, which nothing but a like Family could have brought together ; After this, he led the Embaflador to his Library, infe- rior (perhaps) in nothing to the Vatican, but the Manufcripts, and that it is not The Vatican. And here it was, that his Eminence, prefented his Ex- cellence, with forty Books, Folio's, and others, exquilitely bound, and Printed by the care and Beneficence of this Fami ly ; and here alfo the Cardinals who were invited, came to them. The Hal before-mentioned, was the place of this Entertainment, where that fcarcely to be expreft Cieling (the hand alfo of Vietro de X Cortona, i