Excerpt from The Page of the Duke of Savoy, Vol. 1 Those of our readers who do not fear to take with us a stride of three centuries into the past, we will transport at once into the presence Of the men whose acquaintance we wish them to make, and into the midst of the events we wish them to witness. It is the fifth day of May in the year 1555. Henri II. Reigns over France, Mary Tudor over England, and Charles V. Over Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the two Indies, that is to say, over a Sixth part of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.