Book 1. The Oblate
Book 1. The Oblate - Chapter 1. Nomen Et Omen
_ BOOK I. THE OBLATE
CHAPTER I. NOMEN ET OMEN
THE STROLLING SAINT
Being the Confessions of the High & Mighty Agostino D‘Anguissola Tyrant of Mondolfo & Lord of Carmina, in the State of Piacenza
By Raphael Sabatini
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.
There are in life many things which, in themselves, seeming to the vulgar and the heedless to be trivial and without consequence, may yet be causes pregnant of terrible effects, mainsprings of Destiny itself. Amid such portentous trifles I would number the names so heedlessly bestowed upon us.
It surprises me that in none of the philosophic writings of the learned scholars of antiquity

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