The Nobles and the People--Andrea Doria and his first enterprises--How he abandoned France, and went over to the Emperor--Accusations and opinions with regard to his motives--The laws of the _Union_ destroyed the popular, and created the aristocratic Government--The objects of Doria in contrast with those of the Genoese Government and the Italian Republics--The lieutenants of Andrea and his naval forces--Popular movements arrested by bloody vengeance. CHAPTER IV. GIANLUIGI FIESCHI. Maria della Rovere and her children--The natural gifts of Gianluigi--Andrea Doria prevents his marriage with the daughter of Prince Centurione--Gianluigi’s first quarrels with Gianettino Doria--Naval battle of Giralatte and capture of the corsair Torghud Rais--Count Fieschi espouses Eleonora of the Princes of Cybo--The hill of Carignano in the early part of the sixteenth century--Sumptuousness of the Fieschi palace--Gianluigi, Pansa and other distinguished men--Female writers--Eleonora Fieschi and her rhymes. CHAPTER V. THE PLOTS OF FIESCHI. The political ideas of the sixteenth century--The advice of Donato Gianotto to the Italians--Generous aims of Gianluigi Fieschi--His reported plots with Cesare Fregoso disproved--The conspiracy with Pietro Strozzi a fable--Fieschi has secret conferences with Barnaba Adorno, lord of Silvano--Pier Luca Fieschi and his part in the conspiracy of Gianluigi--The Count sends Cagnino Gonzaga to treat with France--The purchase of the Farnesian galleys--Francesco Burlamacchi. CHAPTER VI. PAUL THIRD. He aspires to grandeur for his family--His hostility to the emperor and to Doria--He encourages Gianluigi in his designs against the imperial rule in Genoa--Attempts of Cardinal Trivulzio to induce Fieschi to give Genoa to France--France is induced by the count to relinquish her hopes of obtaining Genoa--Verrina and his spirited counsels--Vengeance of Gianluigi against Giovanni Battista della Torre. CHAPTER VII. PREPARATIONS. Character of the Fieschi family--Gianluigi acquires the friendship of the silk operatives and other plebeians--The Duke of Piacenza selects the count to arbitrate his differences with the Pallavicini--Secret understandings between the count and the duke--Gianluigi puts his castles in a condition for war--Gianettino Doria, to pave the way to supreme power gives Captain Lercaro an order to kill Fieschi--Industry of Verrina--The decisions of history on the merits of Fieschi should be made in view of the political doctrines of the sixteenth century. CHAPTER VIII. THE SUPPER IN VIALATA.