Ambrogio Spinola undertook to raise 9.000 Lombard mercenaries for land service , and Federico to form a squadron of galley ships for service on the coast .
It was a speculation on which Spinola risked the whole of the great fortune of his house .
Spinola   undertook to raise 9.000 Lombard mercenaries for land service , and Federico to form a squadron of galley ships for service on the coast .
It was a speculation on which Spinola risked the whole of the great fortune of his house .