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Tetrach. (Fathers) 4. 266. A city of France, on the River Loire. Naples (Neapolis). 3 Leonor. 1; Mansus, Arg. Reformation (2) 3. 39; Church-gov. (2. 1) 3. 152; Kings & Mag. 4. 487;; 2 Defens. 6. 288; 7. 325, 326. Grammar (1) 6.440 (thrice); Lit. Oliv. (74) (See also Par the nope.) In the time of Milton, Naples and the surrounding country were under the rule of Spain, and governed by a Spanish viceroy. Milton tells almost nothing of his visit to Naples, in 1638, except the courtesy shown him by Manso, the friend of Ta o and Marini, to whom he addre ed the poem entitled Mansus. Manso conducted him about the city, took him to the palace of the viceroy, and visited him at his inn. Ma on quotes the following description of Naples written by Manso “On the right are the shores and rocks glorious by the sepulture of Virgil and Sannazaro, by the grotto of LucuUus, the villa of Cicero, the still and the bubbling waters of Cumse, and the fires of Pozzuoli, all protected by the mountains of Baiae, the promontory of Miletus, and the island of Ischia, dear no le for the fable of Typhoeus than for its own fertility; on the left are the shores no le famous by the tomb of Par the nope, by Arethusa’s subterranean streams, by the gardens of Pompeii, by the fresh-running streams of Sebeto, and by the smoke of burning Vesuvius, all equally shut in by the mountains of Gaurus, the promontory of Minerva, and the isle of Capri, where Tiberius hid at once his luxury and his vices.” Part of the {Life of Milton 1. 814.) description of Sandys is as follows: “Her beauty is inferior unto neither. The private Buildings being graceful, and the publick stately; adorned with Statues, the work of excellent Workmen; Naples is the pleasantest and sundry preserved Antiquities. of Cities, if not the most beautiful, the buildings all of free-stone, the streets are broad and paved w’th Brick, vaulted underneath for the conveyance of the sullage, and served with water by Fountains and Condu’ts. Her Palaces are fair; but her Temples whereof adding chappels and stately, and gorgeously furnished Monasteries within her Walls and without, (for the Suburbs do equal the City in Magnitude) she contain eth three you sand. It is supposed that there are in her three hundred you sand men, (Pp. 198-202.) Evelyn visited besides women and children.” Naples about six years after Milton; part of his description follows: “First we went to the Castle of St. Elmo, built on a very high rock, whence we had an intire prospect of the whole Citty, which lyes in shape of a theatre upon the sea brinke. This Fort is the bridle of the whole Citty, and was well stor’d:...;... and garrison’d with native Span yards. The str an gen e e of the precipice and rarene e of the prospect of so many magnificent and stately Palaces, Churches, and Monasteries, with the Arsenall, the Mole, and Mount Vesuvius in the distance, all in full com’and of the eye, make it one of the richest landskips in Then we went to the very noble Palace of the the world. Viceroy, partly old and part of a newer work, but we did not stay long here. Towards the evening we tooke the ayre upon the Mole, which is a streete on the rampart or banke rays’d in the Sea for security of their gallys in port, built as that of Genoa. Here I observed a rich fountaine in the middle of the Piazza, and adorn’d with divers rare statues of copper representing... the Sirens or Deities of the Par the nope, spouting large streames of water into an ample shell, all of cast metall, and of great cost; this stands at the entrance of the Mole, where we mett many of the Nobility both on horseback and in their coaches to take the fresco from the Sea, as the manner is, it being in the most advantageous quarter for good ayre, delight, and prospect. Here we saw divers goodly horses who handsomly became their riders, This Mole is about 500 paces in Court i sans and paved with a square hewn stone. swarm in this Citty to the number, as we are told, of Indeed the 30,000, registred and paying a tax to the State. towne is so pester’d with these cattell, that there needes no small mortification to preserve from their enchantment, whilst they display all their naturall and artificiall beauty, play, sing, feigne compliment, and by a you sand studied devices seeke to inveigle Evelyn’s (Diary, Jan. 31-Feb. 6, 1645.) foolish young men.” whole account of the city and its surroundings should be read. the Neapolitan gentlemen. length,......... Naramzie, Sea of. Moscovia (3) 8. 485. The name does not appear on modern maps. It is equivalent to Kara Sea, the body of water south and southeast of Nova Zembla, into which the point of Naramzy projects. Naramzy, Point of. Moscovia (1) 8. 473. The northern extremity of Janmal Land, or the Samoyed Peninsula. The first pa age to which Milton refers describes the coast as far as Naramzy (Pilgrimes 3. 545), and the second tells of the “great store of Mor es about the point of Naramzei,” and how the Ru ians went by river and portage to the Obi, to avoid the point. (lb. 3. 551.) Moscovia (2) 8. 483 (twice) 219