To this letter are joined these reflections:--There are reports respecting a journey made by the Duke of Mantua to Vienna. Some politicians think that it is the affair which happened to his Secretary which is the cause of his journey, and that he has a design of making an alliance with the Emperor and the King of Spain.[334]
[334] To this letter M. Delort adds the following note, "In 1782 or 1783, there died at Turin a Marquis de Pancalier de Prie, among whose manuscripts was also found the anecdote of this Secretary of the Duke of Mantua. All the Italian newspapers published it; but although it was considered as a new idea, it did not make a great sensation."
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Footnotes in the first part "History Of The Iron Mask" have been moved to the end of that part; footnotes in appendix have been moved to the end of the respective appendix.
Page 18, footnote 28, Maria Victoria (Maria Vittoria), second daughter of Ferdinand III. (Ferrante III Gonzaga), Duke of Guastalla, married her cousin Vincent Gonzaga (Vincenzo I Gonzaga) June 30th, 1679 and died September 5th, 1707 in Venice. Although the year 1769 for the marriage date is believed to be an unambiguous mis-print in the original, the author's version has been retained.
Page 149, footnote 189, John Baptist Felix Gaspar Nani's (Giovan Battista Nani) work was published under the title "Historia della Republica Veneta," starting with part I in 1662; the author's spelling of "Istoria" has been maintained.
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