Le marquis son père exigea qu’on lui montrât le latin, non point d’après ces vieux auteurs qui parlent toujours des républiques, mais sur un magnifique volume orné de plus de cent gravures, chef-d’œuvre des artistes du XVIIe siècle ; c’était la généalogie latine des Valserra, marquis del Dongo, publiée en 1650 par Fabrice del Dongo, archevêque de Parme.
The Marchese, his father, insisted on his being shewn the Latin tongue, not on any account in the works of those ancient writers who are always talking about Republics, but in a magnificent volume adorned with more than a hundred engravings, a masterpiece of seventeenth-century art; this was the Lathi genealogy of the Valserra, Marchesi del Dongo, published in 1650 by Fabrizio del Dongo, Archbishop of Parma.