Author unknown; reported in Dante Leonardi, Spighe d'oro, Remo Sandron Editore, 1924.
She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all.
What a valiant woman. She braves the two greatest kings by land and sea. If she were not a heretic she would be worth a whole world.
