_Ferrante Pallavicino_ (Vol. iii., pp. 478. 523.).--Your correspondent
CHARLES O'SOULEY will find some account of Ferrante Pallavicino in
Chalmers, or any other biographical dictionary; and a very complete one
in the _Dictionnaire Historique_ of Prosper Marchand. The manuscript he
possesses has been printed more than once; it first appeared in the
_Opere Scelte di Ferrante Pallavicino_ printed at Geneva, but with the
imprint Villafranca, 1660, 12mo., of which there are several
reimpressions. It is there entitled _La Disgratia del Conte D'Olivares_,
and bears the fictitious subscription of "Madrid li 28 Gennaro, 1643,"
at the end. If the MS. was written at Genoa, it is most probably only a
transcript; for Pallavicino was resident at Venice when it appears to
have been written, and was soon after trepanned by a vile caitiff named
Charles de Bresche _alias_ De Morfu, a Frenchman employed by the Pope's
nuncio Vitellio, into the power of those whom his writings had incensed,
and was by them put to death at Avignon in 1644.