Nor is there anything that could please me more or that I could hope for more than that, not because I think your name would be embellished by my work and industry, but so that in glorifying you I might hope that my life too might be consigned to immortality.
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"An Oration Addressed to the Venetian Doge Francesco Venier on the Occasion of the Arrival of the Most Serene Queen of Sarmantia" (1556), edited and translated by Diana Robin, Cassandra Fedele: Letters and Orations (University of Chicago Press, 2000), "The Public Lectures", p. 162