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Gravina, the other to the Prince Bisignano, and a 

 third is to marry, whose name is Lavinia. 



Ottaviuno, first Duke of Castro, then of Came- 

 rino, and after of Parma and Piacenza, with great 

 trouble restored to his estate ; now is aged and liveth 

 quietly : his wife Marguerite, daughter to Charles 

 the Fifth, first wife to Alexander de Medici, first 

 Duke of Florence. He hath one son called Alex 

 ander, now general for the King of Spain in the Low 

 Countries ; his daughter Vittoria was mother to the 

 Duke of Urbin. 



The Cardinal Farnese, his uncle, of great credit 

 in that college, long time hath aspired to be pope, 

 but withstood by the King of Spain ; on whom 

 though now that house depend, yet forgetteth not, 

 as he thinketh, the death of Pier Luigi, and the loss 

 of Parma and Piacenza, restored to their house by 

 the French. 



The young princes of Mirandola, in the govern 

 ment of their mother Fulvia Correggio, and under 

 the protection of the King of France, who maintaineth 

 there a garrison. 



The Duke of Savoy, Carlo Emanuel, a young 

 prince of twenty-one years, very little of stature, but 

 well brought up and disposed. His territory is the 

 greatest of any Duke of Italy, having Piemont 

 beyond the Alps, and Savoy on this side ; divers fair 

 towns and strongholds, richly left of his father, who 

 was accounted a very wise prince. This duke, as is 

 thought, is advised to remain always indifferent 



