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 434 OF THE STATE OF EUROPE. 



great toll in a strait passage, by reason of his mother 

 a Guise. 



William, of the house of Gonsaga, the third Duke 

 of Mantua ; his wife Barbara, daughter to the Em 

 peror Ferdinand, by whom he hath a son of twenty- 

 two years of age, and a daughter. His son is called 

 Vincentio, his daughter Anne married of late to the 

 Duke of Ferrara ; his son likewise married a year 

 sithence to the Prince of Parma s daughter. The 

 duke his self very deformed and crook-backed, well 

 in years, Montferrat likewise appertaineth to him. 

 Divers of his house have pension always, and serve 

 the King of Spain ; his brother, the Duke of Nevers, 

 remaineth in France. He only seeketh to maintain 

 his estate and enrich himself; his greatest pleasure 

 is in horses and building. 



The Duke of Urbin, Francesco Maria, of the 

 house of Rover, the second of that name, a prince 

 of good behaviour and witty. In his state are seven 

 reasonable fair cities ; Pesaro, Augubio, Sinigaglia, 

 Fossombrone, Sanleo, Cagli, Urbino ; Pesaro and 

 Sinigaglia are fortresses on the sea-side, Urbin and 

 Sanleo on the Apennine, well fortified. He holdeth 

 three provinces, Montefeltro, Massa Trebaria, and 

 Vicariato di Mondavio. 



There have been good princes and valiant of that 

 house, not so great exactors as the rest of Italy 

 therefore better beloved of their subjects, which love 

 restored their house, being displaced by Pope Leo X. 



His wife Leonora, sister to the Duke of Ferrara, 

 by whom he hath no children, and now is divorced. 

 He hath two sisters, the one married to the Duke of 



