[609] Torquato Tasso.—T.
[610] Florio's Montaigne: Booke II. chap. XII.: An Apologie of Raymond Sebond.—T.
[611] Leonora Baroni (1611-1670), esteemed by her contemporaries one of the finest singers of the world. Milton heard her at Cardinal Barberini's concerts. She married, in 1640, Giulio Cesare Castellani, who died in 1662.—T.
[612] Cf. Milton, Epigrammatum: Liber VI. Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem; VII. Ad Eandem; VIII. Ad Eandem. Milton has left no written account of his journey to Rome.—T.
[613] Françoise Dame de Motteville (circa 1621-1689), née Bertaud, married in 1639 to Nicolas Langlois, Sieur de Motteville, who died two years later. She is the author of the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'Anne d'Autriche, first published in 1723, in which Leonora Baroni is mentioned.—T.
[614] Jules Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661), Prime Minister of France after the death of Richelieu.—T.
[615] Antoine Arnauld (1616-1698), author of some agreeable Memoirs.—B.
[616] Henri II. de Lorraine, fifth Duc de Guise (1614-1664), a famous general and adventurer. He took part in the Neapolitan rebellion of 1647, defeated the Spanish troops and placed himself at the head of the government. But his exploits in gallantry turned the nobles against him; they opened the gates of the town to the enemy, and the duke was captured and kept a prisoner in Spain until 1652. In 1654, he was appointed Grand Chamberlain of France.—T.
[617] Louis Deshayes, Baron de Courmenin (d. 1632), had been charged with various missions by Louis XIII. to the Levant, Denmark, Persia and Muscovy. He entered into a conspiracy against the Cardinal de Richelieu and was beheaded, at Béziers, in 1632.—T.
[618] Philippe Emmanuel Marquis de Coulanges (circa 1631-1716), first cousin to Madame de Sévigné, whose letters to him are printed at the end of his Memoirs, first published in 1820.—T.