Chapter XXIV: The Countess of Celant

The disordered Lyfe of the Countesse of Celant, and how shee (causinge the County of Masino to be murdered,) was beheaded at Millan.

[_Source and Origin._--Bandello, Part i. nov. 4 (Belleforest, 1565,
no. 20).

_Parallels._--Fenton, _Tragical Discourses_; Whetstone, _Castle of
Delight_, _Heptameron_.

_Painter._--I. ii. 195; II. ii. 160; III. ii. 312; IV. iii. 44.

_Derivates._--Marston, _Insatiate Countess_.]