Consequently one observes that they have altogether withdrawn, in public at any rate, from every sort of pleasures.

One sees no longer Cardinals in masquerade or on horseback, nor driving with women about Rome for pastime, as the custom was of late; but the utmost they do is to go alone in close coaches.

Banquets, diversions, hunting parties, splendid liveries and all the other signs of outward luxury have been abolished; the more so that now there is at Court no layman of high quality, as formerly when the Pope had many of his relatives or dependents around him.

The clergy always wear their robes, so that the reform of the Church is manifested in their appearance.

This state of things, on the other hand, has been the ruin of the artisans and merchants, since no money circulates.