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These reports eventually travelled to Lecco, and reached the ears

of Agnes. The poor woman did her best to ascertain the truth of

them; but she was kept in a state of suspense and anxiety by the

contradictory accounts which were given, and which were, in fact,

all without foundation.

The governor of Milan, lieutenant-general under Don Gonzalo

Fernandez de Cordova, had complained bitterly to the lord

resident of Venice at Milan, that a robber, a villain, an

instigator of pillage and massacre, the famous Lorenzo

Tramaglino, had been received in the Bergamascan territory. The

resident replied, that he knew nothing of the matter, but that he

would write to Venice for information concerning it, in order to

give some explanation to his Excellency.