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The Considerations which determined the Alliance 



by the Chronicle of Montferrat,^ and is no less clear in the light 

 of an offer drawn up by Galeazzo at Pavia on Jan. 19, 1367 

 (Rymer). In this offer, made as a basis for a marriage-contract, 



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Piedmont and the Adjacent Regions. 



(Reduced from the Century Atlas, No. 93, by permission of The Century Co. 

 Copyright, 1897, by The Century Co.) 



^ 'Cerco anchora questo signer Galeatio Visconte de dar in matrimonio 

 Violante . . . al signor Leonetto,' etc. Cf . Corio : 'Galeazzo f ece 

 amicitia col Re d'lnghilterra.' It is interesting that the Visconti, as Counts 

 of Angiara, 'did not blush to be called English (Angli), as descended 

 from Anglo, reputed to be the son or grandson of Eneas' (Carlo Muletti, 

 p. 15 of Preface to Gioffredo della Chiesa; Corio, p. 9). Gian Galeazzo's 

 three sons were Gian Maria Inglese, Filippo Maria Anglo (both after- 

 wards Dukes of Milan), and Gabriele Anglo (Corio, p. 561, cf. 543, 

 568), while a daughter of Bernabo was named Inglese (R. I. S. 17. 499), 

 or Anglesia (Corio, p. 509). An odd theory to account for these names 

 is that of Rawdon L, Brown (Cal. of State Papers and Manuscripts . . . 

 in the Archives and Collections of Venice i. 252, note) : 'It seems prob- 

 able that the Visconti family had been naturalized by Edward III in 1365 

 [sic], when Lionel, Duke of Clarence, married Violante Visconti.' Muletti 

 refers to the apocryphal genealogy given in M. H. P., pp. 869-870 ; cf . his 

 Preface, as above, and p. 871, note. 



