A third, Alessandro, died under arms before Paris in the troops of General Farnese.

A fourth, Luca, was imprisoned at Rome for his share of the step-mother's murder, but was released on the plea that he had avenged the wounded honor of his race.

He died, however, poisoned by his own brother, Marcantonio, in 1599.[203] Marcantonio was arrested on suspicion and imprisoned in Torre di Nona, where he confessed his guilt.
He was shortly afterwards beheaded on the little square before the bridge of S.Angelo.
_Vittoria Accoramboni_.
Next in order, I shall take the story of Vittoria Accoramboni.

It has been often told already,[204] yet it combines so many points of interest bearing upon the social life of the Italians in my period, that to omit it would be to sacrifice the most important document bearing on the matter of this chapter.

As the Signora di Monza and Lucrezia Buonvisi help us to understand the secret history of families and convents, so Vittoria Accoramboni introduces us to that of courts.
[Footnote 203: This fratricide, concurring with the matricide of S.
Croce, contributed to the rigor with which the Cenci parricide was punished in that year of Roman crimes.] [Footnote 204: _The White Devil_, a tragedy by John Webster, London, 1612; De Stendhal's _Chroniques et Nouvelles_, Vittoria Accoramboni, Paris 1855; _Vittoria Accoramboni_, D.Gnoli, Firenze, 1870; _Italian Byways_, by J.A.Symonds, London, 1883.