Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . e King ofSpain as protector of the Republic. Don John was thereforeordered to repair to Vigevano, a small town on the frontierbetween Lombardy and the Genoese territory, for the purpose ofwatching the proceedings of the contending parties and ofcountermining the plots of the French Court. He was also metat Gaeta by Giacomo Buoncompagno, the Popes nephew, his oldcolleague Marc Antonio Colonna, and Don Juan de Zufliga, theSpanish ambassador at Rome, who conferred with him on thepolitics of Genoa and inf

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Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . e King ofSpain as protector of the Republic. Don John was thereforeordered to repair to Vigevano, a small town on the frontierbetween Lombardy and the Genoese territory, for the purpose ofwatching the proceedings of the contending parties and ofcountermining the plots of the French Court. He was also metat Gaeta by Giacomo Buoncompagno, the Popes nephew, his oldcolleague Marc Antonio Colonna, and Don Juan de Zufliga, theSpanish ambassador at Rome, who conferred with him on thepolitics of Genoa and informed him of the views of the sovereignPontiff. Thus advised, he sailed on the 21 st. For two days helay in the port of St. Stephano. Off Leghorn he received news ^ Relation que d dado el Secretario Juan de Soto sobre las cosas iocanies d las fortalezasy reyno de Tunes. Madrid, 20 Junio 1574. Arch. Gen. de Simancas, Estado, Legajo 1142. CHAP. II. SOJOURN IN NORTHERN ITALY. 27 of the death of Cosimo I., Grand Duke of Tuscany. In theharbour of Spezia he found fourteen Spanish galleys under. COSIMO I. GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY. Marcello Doria, with whom he had long conferences on the stateof Genoa; and thence on the 28th he sailed for that capital.Landing there on the 29th, he was received with the usual 28 DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. CHAP. il. distinctions, and remained in the city until the /th of May. Ajourney of two days brought him on the 8th to Vigevano. Don John was more or less engaged in watching the affairsof Genoa, and in reporting and advising upon them, from the endof April IS74 to the early spring of 1576, when a brief civilwar, waged in the autumn of 1575, was followed by a settlement, in which both parties seemed to be sincerely desirous of savingtheir country from the evils of further foreign interference. Heremained in the north of Italy from the end of April to thebeginning of August 15 74. During those three months his head-quarters were at Vigevano ; but he made visits,