[Source and Origin.—Bandello, Part i., nov. xxxv.
Painter.—I. ii. 391; II. ii. 320; III. ii. 622; IV. iii. 354.]
XXXIII. Lords of Nocera.
Great cruelties chaunced to the Lords of Nocera, for adultry by one of them committed with the captayne’s wyfe of the forte of that citty, with an enterprise moued by the captaine to the cittyzens of the same for rebellion, and the good and dutyfull aunswere of them: with other pityfull euents rysing of that notable and outragious vyce of whoredom.
[Source and Origin.—Bandello, Part i., nov. 55.
Parallels.—Belleforest, t. ii. f. 162 (ed. 1565, no. 23).
Painter.—I. ii. 217; II. ii. 324; III. ii. 631; IV. iii. 363.]
XXXIV. Sultan Solyman.
The horrible and cruell murder of Sultan Selyman, late the emperor of the Turkes and father of Selym that now raigneth, done vpon his eldest sonne Mvstapha, by the procurement, and meanes of Rosa his mother in lawe, and by the speciall instigation of one of his noble men called Rvstanvs: where also is remembred the wilful death of one of his sons named Giangir, for the griefe he conceiued to see Mvstapha so miserably strangled.
[Source and Origin.—N. à Moffa.