Note 62 — Chapter II

This would certainly seem to have been the true cause of Julian’s defection; the story of the seduction or violation of his daughter Florinda (surnamed la Cava, i.e., the wicked), lacks all true historic foundation. Mariana, the Jesuit historian, to whom we are chiefly indebted for this pretty tale, was too apt to draw on his lively imagination, where historical evidence failed him.