The strolling saint: being the confessions of the high & mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo & lord of Carmina, in the state of Piacenza

In seeking other than in myself-as men will-the causes of my tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon those who held my mother at the baptismal font and concerted that she should bear the name of Monica.