The same eminent protector placed Scipione in the service of the Cardinal Sforza.

Camillo, famous for his beauty and his courage, followed the fortunes of Filibert of Savoy, and died in France.
Flaminio was still a boy, dependent, as the sequel of this story shows, upon his sister's destiny.
[Footnote 205: I find a Felice Peretti mentioned in the will of Giacomo Cenci condemned in 1597.

But this was after the death of this Peretti, whom I shall continue to call Francesco.] Of Marcello, the second in age and most important in the action of this tragedy, it is needful to speak with more particularity.

He was young, and, like the rest of his breed, singularly handsome--so handsome, indeed, that he is said to have gained an infamous ascendency over the great Duke of Bracciano, whose privy chamberlain he had become.

Marcello was an outlaw for the murder of Matteo Pallavicino, the brother of the Cardinal of that name.