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Caduta del Conte d'Olivares, and at the end is signed
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Scritta da Ferrante Pallavicino, and dated
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Of course this Count d'Olivares was the great favourite of Philip IV. of Spain; but who was Pallavicino? Could it have been the Paravicino who was court chaplain to Philip III. and IV.? or was he of the Genoese family of Pallavicini mentioned by Leigh Hunt (_Autobiography_, vol. ii. p. 177.) as having been connected with the Cromwell family? What favours the latter presumption is, that a gentleman to whom I showed the MS. said at once,
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That is Genoa paper, just the same I got there for rough copies;