_This statue by Andrea Calamech is still in existence (June, 1912). Sir William Stirling Maxwell is "disposed to consider it the most interesting and important" portrait which has come down to us. He says, "The head, which was considered an excellent likeness, is very noble and graceful." "Although the gilding with which it once shone resplendent has disappeared it is still one of the most effective monuments of sixteenth-century art."_ "_The statue stood in the small Piazza between the Palace and the Church of Our Lady of the Pillar until 1853 when it was removed to the Piazza of the Annunziata._" DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA 347 From a print sent by Colonel Coloma. ANTONIO PÉREZ 383 _Died 1611._ _Illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pérez._ _Married Doña Juana de Coello Bozmediano. Secretary and favourite of Philip II. Fell into disgrace and was tried and_ _tortured in 1582. Contrived to escape, first to Aragon, afterwards to France and England, but was sent back to Portugal and died in Paris._ _In his exile he wrote his "Memorial" to prove his own innocence and his master's guilt. Major Martin Hume thinks that "the moral portrait of the King (Philip II), still current in foreign countries, owes much to the literary talent with which Antonio Pérez presented his subtle sophistries."_ (_Españoles é ingleses en el siglo XVI._) The picture by Sir Antonio More is in Paris. AUTOGRAPH OF BARBARA BLOMBERGH 405 _Mother of Don John of Austria by the Emperor Charles V._ _Afterwards married to Jerome Kegel._ _Died 1598._ From the collection of the Conde de Valencia de D. Juan. Photographed specially for this book. PRINCESA DE ÉVOLI 427 _Born 1540._ _Daughter of the Count de Melito. Married in 1553 Ruy Gomez de Silva, afterwards Prince of Évoli, who died 1573._ _She was a great heiress, and her family accused Antonio Pérez of squandering her fortune. There now seems little doubt that anger at the discovery of her intrigue with him was the chief reason of the assassination of the Secretary Escovedo._ _Philip II caused her to be arrested suddenly in 1579, and imprisoned first in the tower of Pinto, and then exiled to her own house at Pastrana for the rest of her life._ The picture from which the print used is taken is by Sanchez Coello, in the possession of her descendant, the Duque de Pastrana. PHILIP II AS AN OLD MAN 437 "_This picture is well worthy of note, as it shows how the crowned monk of the Escorial looked when on the brink of the grave. In Pantoja's worn, sickly, sour old man, with lack-lustre, restless eyes, protruding under-lip and_