JULIA GONZA-GA. 



he forefaw he had not long to live, and gave her to 

 him for the Ihort remainder of his life, merely as an 

 object to feed his eyes upon, in order to procure for 

 her an ample provision, as a widow. Julia had the art 

 to keep up the ardent paflion of her decrepit fpoufe 

 fo well, that he not only made her aprefent of .13,000 

 ducats the day after their marriage, but by virtue of 

 his teftament, put her in pofTerlion, after his deatli, of 

 all his eftates and domains, in the roman and neapoli- 

 tan territories, fo long as fhe mould not enter on a 

 fecond marriage ; but, in cafe fhe mould think fit to 

 marry, Ihe was to have nothing except her dowry, 

 which amounted to 4000 ducats In money and jewels. 

 He died about the year 1528. after having lived with, 

 her a ihort fpace in unconfummated marria ge, at leafl 

 as the general report at that time went. 



Palliano, a town in Campagnia di Roma, was the 

 place of her refidence. Her confort had here fcarcely 

 clofed his eyes, than fhe found herfelf In imminent 

 danger of being ejected from her inheritance by Afanio 

 Colonna, and Napoleone Orfini, abbot of Farfa, who 

 both formed pretentions to this lordfhip. But pope 

 Clement VII. protected her a^ainfr the artifices of the 

 former, and Lewis Rodomonte, her brother, who ferved 

 in the imperial army, which had ihortly before pillaged 

 Rome, drove out the latter with the imperial troops 

 that were already in pofTeflion of the town of Palliano, 

 and had taken prifoncr Sciarra Colonna with his fol- 

 diers, whom the pope had feat to its. reliefs. • 



For this very important fervice ihe rewarded her 

 brother by giving him her itep -daughter Ifabeila in 



i* Jovius, hift. lib. xxvi. 



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