Let it not seem strange to any one, if I say visible, for every body knows, that the great policy of the _Nipotismo_ consists in hiding their own expenses, and publishing those that they are at for the Church; whose rotten Walls they ordinarily plaister over with a little Lime and Water, while they build new ones for themselves, covering them with some sad colour that they may hide the expense. They that will please themselves, let them read the Life of _Urban_, which has been inserted among the rest of the Lives of the _Popes_, composed by _Platina_, and there they will meet with such a quantity of his good works, that they cannot chuse but esteem him as one of the holiest _Popes_ that ever was; but they that are otherwise inform’d, are mov’d to laugh both at the _Pope_ and the Author. There you shall meet with nothing but, that the _Pope_ visited such a Church, confirmed such a Decree of his Predecessor, gave the people his Benediction from the Church of St. _Jean_ of _Lateran_, visited the Hospital of the Trinity, made a great exhortation to the Bishops, excited the Monks to reform, beautified St. _Andrè Avellino_, received Ambassadors with great state, opened the Holy Year with Magnificence, consecrated the Church of the _Vatican_, gave the title of Cardinalate to the Church of St. _Charles_, re-built the Colledge of the Grecians, _&c._ But all this while not a word of the Progress of _Gustave Adolfe_ in _Germany_, of the Turk in the other parts of Christendom (while the _Pope_ lets them both alone) of the excommunication of the Duke of _Parma_, of that of the State of _Lucca_, of the affront done to the State of _Venice_, of the disrespect show’d to the Crown of _France_ in divers occasions, of the War begun in _Italy_, of the Catholick Religion declining in _Poland_, of the Artifices used in the War of the _Valtolina_, and in a word, of so many miscarriages, and offences given to _Rome_, the State, and all Christendom, by the extravagant passions of the _Barberins_: Of all this I say there is not a syllable, nor the least mention. Every one knows that _Germany_, the Empire, and the Catholick Religion were upon the brim of their ruine, for want of succour; and yet at that very time the _Barberins_, did make War upon the Princes of _Italy_, with the treasure of the Church; their minde being more bent upon the raising of their Family, than upon the conservation of Christendom. And the mischief was, that they did so besiege the _Pope_, that there was no means of informing him of the deplorable state of the Affairs of Christendom; for neither the Emperour, nor the King of _Poland_ could ever obtain any answer to their demands, which I believe never came to the knowledge of the _Pope_, no more than their dangers. The _Nipotismo_ answering their Ambassadors conformably to their own interest, without any regard to the Fatherly and Pastoral care, to which their Uncle was bound by the duty of his place.