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*light that far exceeded the brevity of the work that I present to you: and thus there resulted a disproportion between it and the work. If I were then to set myself to celebrate the antiquity and the greatness of your Family, and so many Dukes, so many Cardinals, and so many war captains original: "Capitani da guerra" who have rendered it illustrious throughout the whole world, I would be attempting an undertaking ample and broad for a restricted book, let alone a small letter, as this must be. Only the governments and the wars of your very great grandfather original: "Avolo", upon whose faith and upon whose valor CHARLES THE FIFTH original: "CARLO QUINTO", an Emperor without any equal original: "Imperator senza alcun paragone", used to rely for the security and honor of all his enterprises and all his States, would be sufficient to weave a long and great History. If the highest God original: "Iddio" had not called the Father of Your Excellency to himself so early, Italy could well have hoped