_Don Agostino_ after his wedding was over became so arrogant, that not being able to contain his passion, he was heard to say these words, _That he had a greater joy to have got the better of his Rival_ Colonna, _then to have obtain’d so great a Princess for Wife_: which coming to the _Colonnesses_ Ears, the Constable the Father made answer, That _his Son had reason to have desir’d the Princess_, _because he had merit enough to obtain her_; _but that_ Don Agostino _was beholding to his Uncles authority_, _without which he had never had her_. And indeed the young _Colonna_ lost nothing by staying; three or four year after he married Cardinal _Mazarines_ Neece, the Princess _Maria Mancini_, a most accomplish’d Lady, and one who brought him above a hundred thousand Crowns to her portion. As for the third demonstration of the Popes love to _Don Agostino_, it appear’d in the great ardour and desire he showed to make him a Prince; ’tis true, that the articles of Marriage carried, that out of the Ladies portion there should be bought a Principality, as if _Don Agostino_ had not so much deserv’d the Princess as the Popes Nephew, as in the consideration of his being a Prince which was a little infamous to the Pope. And yet for all this the Pope would not suffer that the Principality should be bought out of the Princesse’s portion, but with a new generosity gave to _Don Agostino_ seventy thousand Crowns, with which he bought the Principality of _Farneze_, in the Patrimony of St. _Peter_, and was declared Prince, not only by the Pope, but by the Emperour, the said Principality being a feef of the Empire. To these three effects of kindness adde the desire that the Pope hath to gather riches for _Don Agostino_, for whom he knowes that none of the rest will provide, and certainly you will conclude him to be a very loving Uncle. The other two Nephews are, as I have said, Sons to one of the Popes sisters, married in the Family of _Bichi_; one of whom is Cardinal and Bishop of _Osimo_; and the other Knight of _Malta_, and General of the Popes Gallies.