Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, or, A faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the cities of Rome and Paris the one taken out of the book written by Theodorus Amydenus ; the other out of that by Mr. Carr.

VII. The Clementine Colledge for the Illyrians.

The holy house of Loretto, famous through∣out all the world, hath ever anciently main∣tained in the City of Rome some young Schol∣lars Illyrians, to be instructed there in Learn∣ing, and especially in Divinity: That return∣ing to their freinds they might inform them in sound Doctrine. These wanted a common Colledge, which the aforesaid Pope Clement (insisting in the piety and zeal of Pope Gregory) built for them, a capacious one in Campo Martio upon the banks of Tyber, calling it after his own name, The Clementine Colledge.

He intrusted it to be governed by the Re∣ligious Fathers of the Summascan congregation; who (besides the Illyrians, for each of whom the foresaid holy house of Loretto pays a hun∣dred Crowns a year,) as the Roman Seminary, take the Sons of Gentlemen of any part of Italy for Convictors, whom they restore again to

their parents, well educated in Piety and Learn∣ing. This Colledge hath Readers of its own foundation both in Grammer, Rhetorick, Philo∣sophy and Theology. And therefore the Alumni thereof frequent not the publick Roman College as the Alumni of other Colledges do.