Part 53

◆Collenuccio, liv. IV., anno 1194.

◆Filippo Maria Visconti; born 1391, died 1447. Last Duke of Milan of the house of Visconti, the sovereignty passing at his death to the Sforzas.

◆Facino (Bonifacio) Cane, the famous condottiere and despot of Alessandria, was born of a noble family about 1360. The principality he eventually acquired in N. Italy embraced, besides Alessandria, Pavia, Vercelli, Tortona, Varese, and all the shores of the Lago Maggiore. Died 1412.

◆Mother of Frederick II.

◆Pandolfo Collenuccio, famous as author, historian and juris-consult towards the end of the XIVth century. Born at Pesaro, where he spent most of his life, and where he was executed (1500) by order of Giovanni Sforza, in consequence of his intrigues with Cæsar Borgia, who was anxious to acquire the sovereignty of that city.

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◆Daughter of Bernardin de Clermont, Vicomte de Tallard.

◆Brantôme undoubtedly aims here at Marguerite de Clermont.

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◆Jean de Bourdeille.

◆Renée, daughter of Louis XII., married to the Duke of Ferraro. She was ungainly but very learned.

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◆Marguerite d’Angoulème.

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◆Meung-sur-Loire, dep. Loiret, on right bank of the Loire, eleven miles below Orléans.

◆Eclaron, dép. Maute-Marne.

◆Leonor, Duke de Longueville.

◆François de Lorraine, Duke de Guise.

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◆Louis I., Prince de Condé.

◆Captain Averet, died at Orléans in 1562.

◆Compère was the name King Henri II. gave the Constable de Montmorency.

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◆Octavius is translated Octavie by Brantôme. Cf. Suetonius, Caligula, XXXVI., and Octavius Augustus, LXIX.

◆Suetonius, Nero, XXXIV.

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◆Brantôme undoubtedly refers to Henri III. and to the Duke d’Alençon, his brother.

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