Note 18 — LETTER XXXV.
Reading edition
Nevertheless there is a Difference between these two Families: The Duke Ferdinand the last Survivor of that of Kettler, but of the Family of Medicis there are Princes still living, who have an incontestable Right to the Succession; for ’tis certain, that Bernard de Medicis, the eldest Brother of Pope Leo XI. descended from Juvenco de Medicis, Brother of Sylvester Clarissimus, the Head of the present reigning Branch, which Bernard de Medicis was the Son of Ottaviano, the last Standard-bearer of Florence in 1528. This Bernard purchas’d the Barony of Ottajano near Mount Vesuvius in the Kingdom of Naples, to which he transferr’d this Branch of the Medicis; and the present Prince of Ottajano, and Duke of Sarno, who married Theresa, Daughter of Charles Prince of Acquaviva, is his Great Great Grandson.