_Divers Persons_, _that have read the_ Manuscript, _are very pressing for the publishing of it_; _which I hope will be done within this two months at least_. _And I doubt not but I shall satisfie that expectation which I now raise in you_; _for there you shall meet with the relation of some Accidents which hitherto have been kept close from the ears of the Vulgar_. _In it Praises are dispensed with measure_, _and blame with justice_; _and so I hope this_ Nipotismo _will custom you to the Lecture of such Books_, _and make your pleasure the greater when you shall meet with the_ Europa Morta, _which is Universal_. Farewel. The FIRST BOOK. The Contents. _IN which is treated_, _of the mischief which the Popedome brings upon the_ Popes. _Of two particular Examples about that_. _Of two Protestant Gentlemen that went to_ Rome _to see the Court_, _and the Church-mens way of living_, _and what came of it_. _Of the scandal which the Hereticks receive from the_ Popes _Kindred_. _Of the particular reasons which move the_ Popes _to the advancement of their Kindred_: _which are the love they bear to their own Bloud_, _the conservation of their Persons_, _and the Policy of their Government_. _Of the aime of those_ Popes _that introduc’d the title of Cardinal_ Padrone. _Of the difficulties which the Princes find in having access and treating with the_ Pope. _Of a particular case in_ Sixtus _the fifth’s time_. _Of the care the_ Popes _take to prevent their being poysoned_. _Of the miseries of the Ecclesiastick State_. _Of the mischief the Church endures because the_ Popedom _is not Hereditary_. _Of the_ Popes Nephews, _who look upon the_ Popedom _as their own_. _Of the principal reasons which oblige the_ Popes _to call their Kindred about them_. _Of the difficulty the_ Popes _would meet with in diving into Princes Secrets without the assistance of their_ Nephews. _How_ Urban _did instruct his_ Nephews. _How Cardinal_ Astalli _was introduced into the_ Nipotismo. _Of the opinion of Cardinal_ Mazarine _about that business_. _Of the great Authority which_ Gregory _the_ 15th. _gave to Cardinal_ Ludovisio _his_ Nephew. _Of the Republick of_ Venice, _which obliges the Kindred of their dead Duke to satisfie by Fines for those Errors which the Duke did commit while he was alive_. _Of some particularities about the Accident that befel the Duke of_ Crequy. _Of a Discourse held to_ Monsignor Rasponi _by the_ Pope. _Of the way that the_ Popes _have to conceal the Secrets of their Court_. _Of the reasons why the said Court is so Magnificent_. _Of the Friendships of the Cardinals towards Princes_, _and of the Correspondence of Princes with the said Cardinals_. _Of the passage of a certain Cardinal from the Spanish Faction to the French_. _Of the Spiritual Power of the_ Pope, _and how it is upheld by the Temporal_; _and Of the nature of Money in Church-mens hands_.