"It would seem by this," says De Sade, "that Petrarch would not mention his daughter by name in a public will, because she was not born in marriage." Yet his shyness to name her makes it singular that he should style Brossano his son.

In case Brossano should die before him, he appoints Lombardo da Serigo his eventual heir.

De Sade considers the appointment as a deed of trust.
With respect to his little property at Vaucluse, he leaves it to the hospital in that diocese.

His last bequest is to his brother Gherardo, a Carthusian of Montrieux.

He desires his heir to write to him immediately after his decease, and to give him the option of a hundred florins of gold, payable at once, or by five or ten florins every year.
A few days after he had made this will, he set out for Rome.