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probably, therefore, on the Gex estate of the Diodatis—which at his death
was sold, and soon after passed, by a second sale, to the Navllle family,
who hold it now. The builder of the Villa Diodati, a little way up Lake
Leman from Geneva, which was occupied by Lord Byron, and of which
we have spoken, was a Gabriel Diodati, probably the same who received
this grant from Louis XV. The line of direct descent from Pompeio
Diodati came to an end, by the death of Cozm^ /ean^^ Diodati,'^ in 1807.
It is next to be noted that Pompeio Diodati had a brother Nicolb ; ^
who, in the family-records, appears as having attained to high dignities
under the new order of things in Italy (though at one time an emigrant to
Geneva for religion's sake) ; " and had, beside many other children, two
sons, GIOVANNI 10 and GIULIO,lo of whom the former became a
Knight Templar of Malta, Ambassador to Sicily, and Grand Prior of
Venice ; and the latter a Chamberlain, Counsellor of War and " Summus
Copiarum Praefectus," or Major-General, of the Emperor Ferdinand II.,
The CathoHc, the leader of the Catholic party in the beginning of the
Thirty Years' War, as appears from the inscription on a monument in the
Church of St. Augustine in Lucca. ^'^ Giulio Diodati was also made Count
" This Count Diodati was born in 1732, and is doubtless the " Count Deodati, ambassador from the
Elector of Saxony," who had an interview with John Adams at Paris, in 1784, in which he warned him
of the ingratitude of republics, ending with the words :
" Your virtue must be very heroical, or your
philosophy very stoical, to undertake all those adventures, with your eyes open, for such a reward."
Evidently he had lost the patriotic traditions of his family. See The Works of John Adams. . . .
Boston, 1854, ix. 614-15.
'^ De Bude's Vie de Jean Diodati, ut supra, p. 16 ; and
Schotel's Jean Diodati, ut supra, p. 7. The
former erroneously gives Calandrini as the maiden-name of the wife of this Nicolo.
" Schotel (p. 104) gives this inscription as follows :
"D. O. M."
" Et memoriae aeternae JULII DIODATI Patricii Lucensis, qui bellicae gloriae natus, Ferdinando
ii. Imperatore, per oranes militiae gradus inter summos Copiarum Praefectos adscitus, Luzenensi praelio
in quo Gustavus Sueciae Rex interfectus est, dextero lateri praefuit, fideque ac virtute singulari claras
urbes Lincium et Ratisbonam ex hostibus recepit.
" Sexies ferrea glande ictus, semel coelesti prodigio servatus, in parvo Carmelitarum habitu, globi
impetu fracto, demum ad recipiendam Moguntiam a Caesare missus ictu parvi tormenti decessit.
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