Italy in its original glory, ruine, and revival being an exact survey of the whole geography and history of that famous country, with the adjacent islands of Sicily, Malta, &c. : and whatever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of the world) and all those towns and territories mentioned in antient and modern authors / translated out of the originals for general satisfaction, by Edmund Warcupp, Esquire.

FAENZA.

FAenza is divided by the River Lamone, which passeth between the Bourg and the City, where there is a strong bridge of Stone, which conjoyns the City with the Bourg, and the Via Emilia. Tis ancient, and the first Founders are unknown; it enjoys a serene healthfull Ayr, a fertile Territory, and a people good-natured and lovers of their Country. Here they make the best and finest Vessels of Earth of all Italy. It hath produced men eminent in all the Scien∣ces. It was several times destroyed by Totila King of the Goths, Fre∣derick Barbarossa, and by a Captain of the Brittones, but Frederick the second Nephew of the first, built that Fort, cast down and levelled the Walls in rhe yeer 1240. which now are seen, for that by their fidelity to the Church, they gave him great difficulty to take it: The Manfredi then got it, and rebuilt the Walls, from them the Bolonians took it, from them Mainardo Pagano, its Citizen, a great Captain, and from him the Venetians, from whom after the rout, they received at Giarad Adda by Lewis the 12th. King of France, it returned again to the devotion of the Church, under whome it hath ever since con∣tinued.