[232] Bartolommeo Signippi, chancellor of the Ferrarese embassy, to Ant. Montecatino, Flor. June 3 and 6; Montecatino to Ercole d’Este, June 9, 1481, in Cappelli, l. c. pp. 253-255.
[233] Ercole d’Este to Ant. Montecatino, Ferrara, January 10, 1482, in Cappelli, l. c. p. 259.
[234] For a detailed account of the ceremony, see Ant. Montecatino to Ercole d’Este, Flor., October 2, 3, 8, 1481, in Cappelli, l. c. pp. 255-258.
[235] Marin Sanuto, Commentarii della guerra di Ferrara nel 1482. (Venice 1829, ed. by Leonardo Manin). Sanuto was an eye-witness of the events of the war. Many details are given by Malipiero, who took part in the naval war. Romanin, book xi. ch. 4 (iv. 401 et seq.).
[236] Fac. Volaterr., l. c. col. 173.
[237] Godefroy, Histoire de Charles VIII. (Paris 1684). Documents, p. 312. C. de Cherrier, Histoire de Charles VIII. (Par. 1868), i. 32. U. Legeay, Histoire de Louis XI. (Paris 1874), ii. 444. [Very meagre with regard to Louis’ Italian transactions].
[238] For details of the battle of Campomorto (S. Pietro in Formis), see the Roman diaries and Montecatino’s reports to Ercole d’Este in Cappelli, l. c. p. 260 et seq.
[239] Gino Capponi, Storia della Republica Fiorentina (Flor. 1874), ii. 149.
[240] Coleti, in Farlati’s Illyricum sacrum, vii. 438 et seq. Jacopo Volterrano, Stefano Infessura, and the unpublished histories of Sigismondo de’ Conti and Rinaldus, give many details. Jacob Burckhardt’s Andreas Erzbischof von Krain (Basel, 1852) gives an authentic account of the proceedings at Basel. Cf. Arch. stor. Ital., N. S., vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 249 et seq. Ugolini’s letter to Lorenzo, in Fabroni, l. c. ii. 227-233.
[241] Instruction of February 5, 1483, in Fabroni, l. c. ii. 241-243.