Excerpt from The Italian Convert: News From Italy of a Second Moses: Or the Life of Galeacius Caracciolus, the Noble Marquess of Vico; Containing the Story of His Admirable Conversion From Popery, and Forsaking of a Rich Marquesdom for the Gospels Fake; Illustrated With Several Figures If any Papifis (muhng, as they ufe and mea fin'ing us by themfelves) do fufp'ee't the fiery to be fome feigned thing, devifed to allure 81 entice the peoples minds, and to fet a flourifh upon 'our Religion, as they be a thoufand falfe and feigned itories and miracles ufe to do. I aaerfirfi 1n the general, far be 1t from us 8: Our Religion to ufe fuch means, either for our felves, or againft our adv erfaries: no, we are jcontent the Church of Rome have the glory of ithat Garland. Pop'ery being a fandy and a fl1aken, a rotten 81 a tottering building, needs fuch props to under-fet 1t: but truth dare tw her felt, 81 fears no colours. But for the parti cular, i aacr, cunning liars (as many Monks Were)fram'd their tales of men that lived long iago, and places afar off and unknown, that (0 their reports may nor too eafily be brought to trial But in this cafe it is far otherwifittl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.