a cordial with him, which he earnestly recommended to his grace, saying, "He would be hanged, if it was not serviceable to him." The duchess instantly said, "Take it then, my lord duke; it must infallibly be of use to you one way or other." The duke died 1722; she 1744.
She procured John X. to be deposed, Leo VI. to be put to death in prison, and in 931 placed on the pontifical throne John IX. whom she had by Sergius III. Marozia had been successively wife to Adalbert and his son Guy; and when the latter died, Hugh, king of Italy and Provence, Guy's brother-in-law, married her, that he might be master of the castle of Rome.
Understanding Greek and Latin, she translated from the latter the Poems of Flaminius, Paris, 1569, 8vo.; and also the Latin Commentary, by Claude d'Espence, on the Sunday Collects; and wrote Sonnets for the Sundays. A collection of her fugitive pieces was published, which were much admired by Ronsard. Claude d'Espence was her friend, and left her an annuity of 30 livres, by his will, dated 1571. She lost her sight two years before she died.
