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honoured with a magnificent eulogium; whom Cardinal Borghese and

the Viceroy of Naples, Don Pietro de Toledo, solicited to write,

the first, the life of Pope Paul V., the second, the wars of the

Catholic king in Italy, and both in vain; whom Louis XIII., King

of France, with the advice of Cardinal Richelieu, named his

historiographer; upon whom the Duke Carlos Emanuel, of Savoy,

conferred the same office; and in praise of whom the Duchess

Christina, daughter to his most Christian majesty, Henry IV.,

added in a diploma, after many other titles, "the renown he had

obtained in Italy as the first writer of the age."