324 JULIA G0NZAGA. 



more for the fake of feeing Julia, the wonder of lief 

 age, than the curioiities of that capital. He patheti- 

 cally laments, in one of his letters, that he did not 

 meet Porrino there * to- introduce him to her. He y 

 however, fucceeded ; and exprelYes himfelf thereon in 

 another of his letters thus : Di queftra fignora non 

 pofib dir cofa che non fia ftata detta, e che dicendofi 

 non fia aflai men del vero ~}~. 



How the procefs was terminated, with her fi:ep- 

 daughter, who had married the prince of Salmona, is 

 unknown to me ; but it could not have been decided 

 entirely to her difadvantage, as fhe continued to live 

 in princely flare, and left behind hsr an annual revenue 

 of 30,000 ducats. In 1540. fhe loft her father, ths 

 marquis Lewis Gonzaga ; who, in his teftament, gavs 

 in charge to her the education of the young Vefpafiano, 

 his grandfon, on whom the continuation of the family 

 depended. By this circumfiance fhe was involved in 

 a frefh law-foit with Ifabella, the mother of the boy by 

 her fecond fpoufe ; but which was determined in her 

 favour. She eauled her nephew to; be brought to 

 Naples, where fhe gave him an education proper for a 

 perfon of fuch high expectations. Of the privileges 

 fhe obtained for him from the emperor, in regard to 

 his fiefs in Lombardy, and which obliged her to maks 

 a journey thither in 1546. I mall not now fpeak, that 

 I may confider her in another point of view, where fhe 

 fhews the greatnefs of her foul by the contempt of 

 worldly grandeur. . 



Every one knows to what a height the houfe of Far- 

 nefe was raifed by Paul III. Peter Aloyfius was duke 



* Lettere, vol. i. num. s-'j. 26. f Td.ib. num. 28. 



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