(44)
"Mansit in Palatio secrete," says Burchard.
(45)
This, incidentally, is another misstatement. Valentinois had with him, besides the thousand foot levied by the Pope and the hundred lances under Morgante Baglioni, an army some thousands strong led for him by Yves d'Allègre.
(46)
The frequency with which the German historian cites Matarazzo as an authority is oddly inconsistent, considering that when he finds Matarazzo's story of the murder of the Duke of Gandia upsetting the theory which Gregorovius himself prefers, by fastening the guilt upon Giovanni Sforza, he devotes some space to showing—with perfect justice—that Matarazzo is no authority at all.
(47)
See Gregorovius's Lucrezia Borgia.
(48)
Cronache Forlivesi.
(49)
The arquebus, although it had existed in Italy for nearly a century, was only just coming into general use.
(50)
In his Niccolò Machiavelli.
(51)
See the twenty-first letter from Macchiavelli on this legation.
(52)
This is Macchiavelli's report of the forces; but, it appears to be an exaggeration, for, upon leaving Cesena, Cesare does not appear to have commanded more than 10,000 men in all.
(53)
See this letter in the documents appended to Alvisi's Cesare Borgia, document 76.
(54)
Burchard's Diarium, March 6, 1504.
(55)
"Il diavolo sarebbe saltato fuori della camera in forma di babuino, et un cardinale corso per piarlo, e preso volendolo presentar al papa, il papa disse lasolo, lasolo ché ii diavolo. E poi la notte si amaló e morite."—Marino Sanuto, Diarii.
(56)
See Sanuto's Diarrii.
(57)
Burchard's successor in the office of Master of Ceremonies.
(58)
"Per non dar materia ad altri che fazino un po di lui mazor estimazion di quel che fanno quando lo vedessero in parte alcuna favorito."—Giustiniani, Dispatch of November 6, 1503.
(59)
"In quo nobis rem gratissimam facietis ducis enim ipsum propter ejus insignes virtutes et praeclara merita praecipuo affectur et caritate praecipua complectimur."—Archivio di Stato, Firenze. (See Alvisi, Doct. 96.)
(60)
Quoted by Alvisi, on the authority of a letter of Luigi da Porto, March 16, 1510, in Lettere Storiche.
(61)
Sanuto confirms Zurita, in the main, by letters received by the Venetian Senate.
(62)
It bore the following legend:
which, more or less literally may be Englished as follows: "Here in a little earth, lies one whom all did fear; one whose hands dispensed both peace and war. Oh, you that go in search of things deserving praise, if you would praise the worthiest, then let your journey end here, nor trouble to go farther."