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◆Paolo Jovio, Dialogo delle imprese militari ed amorose, 1559, p. 13.
◆Blaise de Montluc, author of the Commentaires, a diabolical Gascon, made Field Marshal of France in 1574. The siege of La Rochelle, which is here mentioned, took place in 1573. For details on this personage, see the De Ruble edition of the Commentaires, 1854–74, 5 vols.
◆Paulus Jovius (Paolo Giovio), Historian, was a native of Como; born 1483, died 1552.