JULIA 6 0 K ZAG A. 



in his houfe, he caufed her picture to be drawn By 

 Sebaftiano del Piombo. This portrait, according to 

 the judgement of Raphael Borghini, was one of the 

 fineft productions of that celebrated artift*. On the 

 death of the cardinal, it was prefented to Francis I., 

 king of France, who placed it in the palace of Fon- 

 tainebleau. Molza and Porinno exhaufted the powers 

 of their poetic genius- in finging its praifes, or rather 

 thofe of its original -fv 



In the year 1535. Julia had the misfortune to lofe 

 her beft friend the cardinal Ippolito. We are told by 

 Varchi, that, by his frequent travelling backwards and 

 forwards between Itri and Fondi, where the air in the 

 fummer months is fometimes infected by the peftilen- 

 tial exhalations of a lake, he contracted fuch a licknefs 

 that forced him to take to his bed on the fecond of 

 Augufi:, at Itri, a place belonging to him, at the 

 diftance of four Italian miles from Fondi, but did not 

 prove mortal ; for, when his recovery was almoft 

 complete, he was poifoned by one of his domeftics J. 

 Julia exerted herfelf to the utmoft to prolong his life ; 

 but, as he could not be prevailed upon to take a, 

 counter-poifon, or any other medicine he died on, 



* Ripofq di Raffael'e Borghini, p. 371. 



f For the admirers of italian poetry it is to be remarked, that, of 

 the collection of Dolce, and in the new edition of the poems of Mol- 

 2,3, which was fet on foot and arranged by the abbe Seraffi, the fe- 

 cond part does not belong to Molza, but to Porrino. The ftanzas 

 of Porrino were publifhed fmgly in 15 51. by Trammezzino, at Ve- 

 nice, which edition is become extremely fcarce. 



% Iftorie Fior. lib. xiv. p. 537. 



§ SerafS, vita del Molza, p. 47* 



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