Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . s,which rendered the attempt, so far as that family was concerned,so alarming and so nearly successful, was mainly attributed to thearrogance of Giannetino Doria, the admirals nephew and heir, who > Memoires de M. de la Rochefoucauld, Due de Dondcauville, vols, i.-vi., Paris, 1862,8vo, vol. i. Saturday Review, Nov. 8, 1862, p. 569. 2 A good notice of the Bank of St. George will be found in Botta : Storia dItalia,Parigi, 1832, 8vo, 10 vols., i. pp. 31-33. CHAP. II. SOJOURN IN NORTHERN ITALY. 35 fell

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Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . s, which rendered the attempt, so far as that family was concerned, so alarming and so nearly successful, was mainly attributed to thearrogance of Giannetino Doria, the admirals nephew and heir, who > Memoires de M. de la Rochefoucauld, Due de Dondcauville, vols, i.-vi., Paris, 1862, 8vo, vol. i. Saturday Review, Nov. 8, 1862, p. 569. 2 A good notice of the Bank of St. George will be found in Botta : Storia dItalia, Parigi, 1832, 8vo, 10 vols., i. pp. 31-33. CHAP. II. SOJOURN IN NORTHERN ITALY. 35 fell in the affray. The panic which this conspiracy occasioned wasimproved by Charles V. to propose the erection of a new fortressat Genoa, to be garrisoned by Spanish troops. The delicate taskof making this proposal to the Doge and Senate was intrusted toAnthony de Perrenot, afterwards Cardinal Granvelle, who came toGenoa accompanied by several engineers. The envoys first carewas to endeavour to secure the assistance of Doria, whom heassured that the plan had been suggested to the Emperor by. ANTOINE DE PERRENOT, BISHOP OF ARRAS. many of the Genoese nobles, who feared a revolution. Perrenotfurther sought to bribe him into approving it by promising him thecommand of the new castle. Doria rejected both the plan and thebribe with scorn and indignation. He threatened to resign thecommand of the Emperors fleet; he appealed directly to thosewhom he suspected of countenancing the design, and shamed theminto a return to more patriotic sentiments ; and he animated theSenate to demand the recall of the Imperial envoy and hisengineers, whose mysterious surveys of the heights had begunto excite popular suspicion and the mutterings of a popularstorm. The Emperor, finding Doria incorruptible and the Genoesejealous of their independence, wisely refrained from pursuing hisinsidious scheme. 36 DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. CHAP. ii. Though determined to permit no foreign interference in thedomestic affairs