[150] He speaks, indeed, (p. 236) of Sciarra as a brother of Ascanio: adding, that he was illegitimate.
[151] Coppi, Mem. Col., p. 269.
[152] Which is the truly wonderful assertion of M. le Fevre Deumier, in his little volume entitled "Vittoria Colonna;" Paris, 1856, p. 7.
[153] As it would appear they must have been, from the dates given above to show that Vittoria must have been their first child.
[154] Coppi Mem. Col., p. 228.
[155] Coppi. Mem. Col., p. 243.
[156] Book v. chap. ii.
[157] Book xvii. chaps. iii. and iv.
[158] Giovio, Vita del Mar. di Pescara, Venice, 1557, p. 14.
[159] Visconti, Rimi di Vit. Col., p. 39. See portrait prefixed to this volume.