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Towards the close of the sixteenth century, this castle was in the

possession of Ferdinand, fifth marquis of Mazzini, and was for some

years the principal residence of his family He was a man of a

voluptuous and imperious character To his first wife, he hter of the Count della Salario, a lady yet

entleness

of her disposition, than for her beauty She brought the hters, who lost their amiable mother in early

childhood

The arrogant and impetuous character of the marquis

operated powerfully upon the mild and susceptible nature of his lady:

and it was by lect

put a period to her life However this ht be, he soon afterwards

lady eminently beautiful, but of a

character very opposite to that of her predecessor She was a woman of

infinite art, devoted to pleasure, and of an unconquerable spirit The

marquis, whose heart was dead to paternal tenderness, and whose

present lady was too volatile to attend to dohters to the care of a lady,

co, and as distantly

related to the late marchioness

He quitted Mazzini soon after his second aieties

and splendour of Naples, whither his son acco disposition, he was governed by