Massimiliano II Stampa

With her he had:[1] In 1575 he made generous donations to the library in Soncino and gave enough for the city to build a Capuchin monastery.

He retired from public life after his wife's death, starting a period of profound religious meditation which also involved pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem.

In 1596 he arrived back in Soncino, where he decided to become a Capuchin friar at the monastery he had helped found only a few years earlier.

He then was then suddenly won over by the orders set up to free Christians enslaved by Ottoman and Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean.

[2] It only proved possible to repatriate his body in 1605 via the efforts of his son, who sailed to Algiers and then brought it back to Soncino by sea and land via Livorno, Genoa and Milan.