Excerpt from A Princess of the Italian Reformation: Giulia Gonzaga, 1513-1566, Her Family and Her FriendsIn reading their tangled story, it often appears to be quite a secondary matter on which side they fought 'whether for Emperor, or Pope, or King Of France, for themselves, or even on some trivial pretext concerning the boundary of a petty State. TO add to our sense of unreality, these stately warriors all wrote poetry - like everybody else - and it became almost a point Of chivalry for the victor to console the vanquished hero with a sonnet or an epigram - to set him free and send him rejoicing on his way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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