Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . above related, he deemedit prudent to send the Count of Priego to Rome, to afford fullexplanations of his conduct—explanations which appear to havesatisfied the Pontiff. Of the private life and amusements of Don John during hisresidence in the North of Italy in i 5 74, a few notices have beenpreserved. At Vigevano he found time to improve his dancing by taking 1 In 1797. Fragments of the statues are said to be preserved in the cloister of thechurch of San Matteo, a church founded by the Dorias, and fi
Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . above related, he deemedit prudent to send the Count of Priego to Rome, to afford fullexplanations of his conduct—explanations which appear to havesatisfied the Pontiff. Of the private life and amusements of Don John during hisresidence in the North of Italy in i 5 74, a few notices have beenpreserved. At Vigevano he found time to improve his dancing by taking 1 In 1797. Fragments of the statues are said to be preserved in the cloister of thechurch of San Matteo, a church founded by the Dorias, and filled with their monumentsand trophies. 54 DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. CHAP. II. lessons from Cesare Negri, the Milanese professor whose perform-ances had delighted him at the Doria palace at Genoa in 1571. On the 6th of May 15 74. says Negri in his book, I danced before Don John of Austria in the palace at Vigevano ; and I remained there eight days and taught His Highness many things which pleased him exceeding well, so that he gave orders that I should receive infinite donatives. On the 26th. CESARE NEGRI, DANCING MASTER OF DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. of the same month Negri again appeared before Don John andthe Viceroy, the Marquess of Ayamonte, at Milan. On thisoccasion he was accompanied by six of his pupils, with whom hedanced the galliard and other dances with an agility and address, the like of which, says the professor, the noble spectators had never before witnessed.^ On the 26th of June Negri himself produced at his own Le Gratis d Amore di Cesare Negri detto il Trombone, professore di ballare, Milano,1602, sm. folio, p. 8. Of this rare and curious volume, which has a fine portrait of theauthor, and many interesting plates of dances and costumes by Leon Pallavicino, thereis a later edition entitled Nuove Inventioni di Balli, Milano, 1604, sm. fol., which isprobably the same book with a new title. CHAP. II. SOJOURN IN NORTHERN ITALY. 55 expense a masque of his own invention, in ho
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