She was set at large, and allowed to occupy a more wholesome apartment, where the charity of Cardinal Borromeo supplied her with comforts befitting her station, and the reputation she acquired for sanctity.

Her own family cherished implacable sentiments of resentment against the woman who had brought disgrace upon them.

Ripamonte, the historian of Milan, says that in his own time she was still alive: 'a bent old woman, tall of stature, dried and fleshless, but venerable in her aspect, whom no one could believe to have been once a charming and immodest beauty.' Her associates in guilt, the nuns of S.Margherita, were consigned to punishments resembling hers.

Sisters Benedetta, Silvia and Candida suffered the same close incarceration.
_Lucrezia Buonvisi_.
The tale of Lucrezia Buonvisi presents some points of similarity to that of the Signora di Monza.[191] [Footnote 191: _Storia di Lucrezia Buonvisi_, by Salvatore Bonghi, Lucca, 1864.

This is an admirably written historical monograph, based on accurate studies and wide researches, containing a mine of valuable information for a student of those times.] Her father was a Lucchese gentleman, named Vincenzo Malpigli, who passed the better portion of his life at Ferrara, as treasurer to Duke Afonsono II.