She exercised an irresistible influence over all who saw her, and many were the offers of marriage she refused.

At length a suitor appeared whose condition and connection with the Roman ecclesiastical nobility rendered him acceptable in the eyes of the Accoramboni.

Francesco Peretti was welcomed as the successful candidate for Vittoria's hand.

His mother, Camilla, was sister to Felice, Cardinal of Montalto; and her son, Francesco Mignucci, had changed both of his names to Felice Peretti in compliment to this illustrious relative.[205] It was the nephew, then, of the future Sixtus V., that Vittoria Accoramboni married on June 28, 1573.

For a short while the young couple lived happily together.