Chapter XLV: Duchess of Savoy

The Duchesse of Sauoie, being the kinge of England’s sister, was in the Duke her husbandes absence, vniustlye accused of adulterie, by a noble man, his Lieutenaunte: and shoulde haue beene put to death, if by the prowesse and valiaunt combate of Don Iohn di Mendozza, (a gentleman of Spaine) she had not beene deliuered. With a discourse of maruelous accidentes, touchinge the same, to the singuler praise and commendation of chaste and honest Ladies.

[_Source._--Boaistuau, 1559, no. 6.

_Origin._--Bandello, Part ii., nov. 44 (from Val. Baruchius).

_Parallels._--Belleforest, i. 107, _seq._

_Painter._--I. i. 226; II. i. 153; III. i. 271; IV. i. 285.

_Derivates._--De la Peend, _History of John Lord Mandozze_, 1565
(_cf. Brit. Bibliographer_, ii. 523). De la Peend must have had
proof sheets of Painter.]