[103] Cardinal Ferrari to Ercole, Rome, August 27, 1501.
[104] Ducal Records, September 1, 1501.
[105] The letter is reproduced in Zucchetti's Lucrezia Borgia, Duchessa di Ferrara, Milan, 1869.
[106] Ed altre cose che egli disse per maggiormente magnificare il fatto. Matteo Canale to the Duke of Ferrara, Rome, September 11, 1501.
[107] Quale mi pare già essere optima Ferrarese. Despatch from Rome, September 15th.
[108] Che voleva havessimo veduto che la Duchessa non era zoppa. Saraceni to Ercole, Rome, September 16th.
[109] Rome, September 23d, Saraceni.
[110] Despatch, September 25th.
[111] To this Ercole replied in reassuring terms. Letter to his orators in Rome, September 18, 1501.
[112] Despatch of Matteo Canale to Ercole, Rome, September 18, 1501.