SOURCES FOR THE DUKE OF MILAN

Guicciardini, Francesco. The History of Guicciardin. Trans. Geoffrey Fenton (1599). Bks. 15 and 19. Poss. read both in Italian original (1574) and in English trans.

Josephus. The Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus. Trans. Thomas Lodge (1602). 'Jewish Antiquities' 15.183-242 and 'Jewish Wars' 1.431-44.

Middleton, Thomas (?). The Second Maiden's Tragedy (perf. 1611).

(perhaps) Thomas, William. The History of Italy (1549).

REFERENCE : Philip Edwards and Colin Gibson, eds. The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. 1.201-3.