Castelli, Benedetto
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Of the mensuration of running waters
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1661
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the famous Authour of theſe enſuing
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Diſcourſes of the
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Menſuration of
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Running Waters,
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is deſcended from
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the Worſhipful FAMILY of the
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GASTELLII,
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and took his
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SIMENVS, (where
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Hanibal
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a fatal overthrow to the
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Roman
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Legions) in that ſweet and fertile part
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ITALY,
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called the
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Territory
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PERUGIA,
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a branch of the Dukedome of
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TUSCANY,
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His Parents, who were more
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zealous of the good of his Soul than obſervant of the Propenſion of
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his Genius, dedicated him (according to the Devotion of that Coun
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try) to the Service of the Church; and entered him into the Flou
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riſhing Order of Black-Friers, called from the place Moncks
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of
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Monte Caſino,
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and from the Founder
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Benedictines.
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