The Italian convert : newes from Italy of a second Moses; or, The life of Galeacivs Caracciolvs, the noble Marquesse of VicoContaining the story of his admirable conversion from popery ... . cmdlived!inddiedtbeblef[edfervantof God, leaving behind hit» a rareexample to ali ages» This (nghthonourablc) is a briefe of the whole, and it is a ftory admirable and irai»fable if any other in this latter ageof the world. Someufe to crave of great perfonagesj not to reipcc>the gift but the giver : but inthis cafe I contrariwifeinrreat your honours, not iorefpeft the giver but the gift :o£the giuer 1 f
The Italian convert : newes from Italy of a second Moses; or, The life of Galeacivs Caracciolvs, the noble Marquesse of VicoContaining the story of his admirable conversion from popery ... . cmdlived!inddiedtbeblef[edfervantof God, leaving behind hit» a rareexample to ali ages» This (nghthonourablc) is a briefe of the whole, and it is a ftory admirable and irai»fable if any other in this latter ageof the world. Someufe to crave of great perfonagesj not to reipcc>the gift but the giver : but inthis cafe I contrariwifeinrreat your honours, not iorefpeft the giver but the gift :o£the giuer 1 fay euough if i fay nothing ; but of the g,ift, I meane of noble Galcafmf)\ fay 8« too. li be ttpijut ueaicatory* eooÌJttle when 1 havefaMall I can. But this I mufi needs fay : So religious,fo noble,fo vertuous was the man, io rcfolutc, fo holy, fo hctoicall was che faci: ,f° ftrange the be-ginning, fo admirable and extraordinary the perieverance, asifthe ftorywerenotdebafed by the rudeneffe of my tranfiation; I durft fay, nonefo great but mightieadeit,norfogoodbut might follow it. I may fay much rather than lacob. Fewand ivill have Mj dayts betrte ; Yetinthcfefcw daiesofminefomething have I fecne jpore hare \ read, more have I heard j yetnever faw I, heard I, or rcadl any exam,pie (all things laid together) more ncerely feconding the example of Wo/iwthanthis, of this moft renowned Marquefle Galeacixt. J/w/iwwastheadopredfonnecf aKings daughter ; G<j/wi«Jthemturallfonnc,aadheireapparentto a Marqueflè: Mo-f&A Courtier, in the Court of Pharaoh : Galeae mi in the Court of the Charlesthe fifth: Mtfes by adoption a fcinne to a Qntcnc tGaleaeius by marriage
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