Anyhow, he had time to make a will in Vittoria's favor, leaving her large sums of money, jewels, goods, and houses--enough, in fact, to support her ducal dignity with splendor.

His hereditary fiefs and honors passed by right to his only son, Virginio.
Vittoria, accompanied by her brother, Marcello, and the whole court of Bracciano, repaired at once to Padua, where she was soon after joined by Flaminio, and by the Prince Lodovico Orsini.

Lodovico Orsini assumed the duty of settling Vittoria's affairs under her dead husband's will.

In life he had been the duke's ally as well as relative.

His family pride was deeply wounded by what seemed to him an ignoble, as it was certainly an unequal, marriage.