Download Correspondence of the Emperor Charles V and His Ambassadors at the Courts of England and France; from the Original Letters in the Imperial Family Arch Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... at Orvieto, and afterwards to one at Viterbo. On her return to Rome at the beginning of the year 1547 she took up her abode in the Palazzo Cesarini, called Argentina. She there fell sick, and died towards the end of February in the 58th year of her age. Michael Angelo who had long been enamoured of her divine talents as he expressed himself, was present on the occasion and received her last sigh. All writers have concurred in praise of her virtue, her beauty and her intellectual powers. Four editions of her works were published in her life time, and her modesty had to suffer in finding this same epithet of divine given in them all. DUKE OF ALVA. In the short space of two years, Charles the Fifth lost one after the other his most distinguished generals, Pescara, Freundsberg, Bourbon and Lannoy. Leyva did not long survive. The Marquis del Vasto having once obtained the summit of Imperial favour seems to have veered round, and to have become a totally different person from that which he had appeared whilst under the guardianship of his uncle Pescara. One only remained, who was always steady to the Emperor, notwithstanding his Sovereign's visible decline, accelerated as it was by protracted sufferings both of body and mind. This faithful adherent was Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva. Not unfrequently written Guasto. Hormayr in his Austrian Plutarch thus describes him. "A long, thin, boney figure with a high and brazen forehead, deep sunk sparkling eyes, closely cropt head, black bristling hair and flowing beard, hollow, dull voice, stubborn, revengeful and cruel, recognizing no virtue except blind obedience, no means but terror, no merit but his own, or that of his subordinates; as thoroughly a Spaniard, as Publicola and Brutus...
