Examples of these ideas in the dynasties of Urbino[22]
1160. The early Counts of Montefeltro are invested with Urbino[22]
1371. Invited to Cagli[22]
1384. Received at Gubbio[22]
1433. Acquired Casteldurante[23]
1445. Purchased Fossombrone[23]
1474. Sinigaglia given to the della Rovere[23]
1513. They obtained Pesaro and Gradara[23]
Statistics of the state so composed[23]
1160-1631. Its dynastic changes[24]
Early genealogy of the Montefeltri[24]
1160-1815. The Counts of Carpegna[25]
1154. Antonio, first Count of Montefeltro[25]
1216. Buonconte, first Count of Urbino[25]
1268. Count Guido the Elder, his prowess[26]
1282. Takes Forlì by stratagem[27]
1289. Excommunicated as a Ghibelline[27]
1296. Abdicates and becomes a friar[28]
1294. Abdication of Celestine V.[28]
” Succeeded by Boniface VIII.[28]
1296. His feuds with the Colonna[29]
” He recalls Count Guido to the world[30]
” Dante's confession of the Count[30]
” How far consistent with fact[32]
” The Count's piety attested by Boniface[33]
1298.Sept. 27.His death at Assisi[34]
1300. The struggles of his successors[35]
1377. Antonio Count of Urbino[36]
1384. Extends his sway over Gubbio, Cagli, and Cantiano[37]
1390. His mild government and literary tastes[37]
1404.May 9.His death announced to the authorities of Siena by his son[38]
” His children[39]
” His daughter Battista, wife of Galeazzo Malatesta, Lord of Pesaro[39]
” Her literary acquirements[40]
” Battista takes the veil[40]
” Misfortunes of her daughter Elisabetta[41]

[CHAPTER III]

1404. Guidantonio Count of Urbino[42]
1408. Made Lord of Assisi[42]
1413. And Vice-general of Romagna[43]
” Braccio di Montone[43]
1417.Nov. 11.Election of Pope Martin V.[44]
1418.Dec.Count Guidantonio made Duke of Spoleto[44]
1420. Braccio reconciled to the Pope[45]
1424.March 4.The Count marries Caterina Colonna[45]
” His disputes with the Brancaleoni[45]
1430.Sept. 3.Made Captain-general of Florence[46]
1431.March 3.Election of Pope Eugenius IV.[46]
1438.Oct. 9.Death of Countess Caterina[47]
1442.Feb. 20.Death of Count Guidantonio[47]
” His children[47]
” His daughter Brigida Sueva's singular history[48]
” His natural children[49]
” Origin of the Ubaldini della Carda[49]
” Notice of Ottaviano Ubaldino[50]
1424. Birth of Count Oddantonio of Urbino[51]
1443.April 26.Made Duke of Urbino[51]
” His vicious career[52]
1444.July 22.His assassination[53]
” His intended marriage[55]
1439-1443. Two original letters from him to the magistrates of Siena[56]
The dukedom lapsed on his death[58]

[CHAPTER IV]

Federigo Count of Urbino[61]
1422.June 7.The mystery and misstatements regarding his birth[61]
1424.Dec. 22.Set at rest by his legitimation[62]
” The Brancaleoni of Mercatello[63]
1430. Their heiress Gentile betrothed to Count Federigo[64]
” The state of Italy at this time[64]
” Rome and the Papacy[65]
” Florence and Central Italy[66]
” Lombardy and Venice[67]
1433. Federigo sent to Venice as a hostage[68]
1434. Made a companion of the Hose[68]
” Becomes a pupil of Vittorino da Feltre at Mantua[69]
” Character and system of Vittorino[70]
1433. Federigo knighted by the Emperor[71]
1437.Dec. 2.His marriage[72]
” Nicolò Piccinino successor of Braccio di Montone[72]
1438. Federigo serves under him in Lombardy[74]
1439. Next, under his brother-in-law Guidaccio Manfredi, Lord of Faenza[74]
” A midnight alarm[74]
” The Malatesta hereditary rivals of the Montefeltri[75]
” Sigismondo Pandolfo Lord of Rimini opposed by Federigo[75]
1440.June 29.The battle of Anghiari[77]
1442. Federigo recovers Montelocco[77]
1441. Description of S. Leo[78]
” Federigo takes it[80]
” Position of Francesco Sforza[80]
” Pedigree of the Sforza family[80]
1443. Federigo after his father's death rejoins Piccinino[81]
” Visits Naples with him[81]
”Nov. 8.Sforza defeats Piccinino at Monteluro[82]
” Sanzi's description of that battle[82]
” Federigo invested with Mercatello[83]
1444. He protects Galeazzo Malatesta's seigneury of Pesaro[83]
1445.Feb. 21.Is challenged by Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini[83]

[CHAPTER V]

1444.July 22.Federigo accepted as successor of Duke Oddantonio in Urbino[85]
” Conditions imposed by the people[86]
” The state of Central Italy[87]
” Contemporary sketch of Federigo[88]
” Spite of Sigismondo Pandolfo[89]
” Sale of Pesaro and Fossombrone[90]
1445.March 16.Marriage of Alessandro Sforza, who becomes Lord of Pesaro[91]
” Mistakes of Sismondi[91]
” Francesco Sforza's breach with Filippo Maria Visconti and Sigismondo Malatesta[91]
”June 22.He is supported by Federigo, and visits Urbino[92]
1446. His position at La Marca, which he loses[92]
”April.Federigo excommunicated by Eugenius for adhering to Sforza[93]
” The fortune of war changes[93]
1447. Sforza is reconciled with the Duke of Milan[94]
”Sept. 3.Sigismondo attacks Fossombrone[95]
”Feb. 23.Death and character of Eugenius IV.[95]
” Death of the Duke of Milan[96]
1450. Succeeded by Francesco Sforza[97]
1447. Designs of Alfonso of Naples upon Tuscany[97]
1448.March.Opposed by Federigo for the Florentines[98]
” Sigismondo tricks Alfonso, and attacks Fossombrone[98]
”Sept.Alfonso and Federigo return home[99]
1449. Sigismondo attempts to dupe Federigo, but is foiled[99]
1450. Federigo made Captain-general by the Duke of Milan[100]
”June 29.Peace between Naples and Florence[100]
” Loses his eye in a tournament[101]

[CHAPTER VI]

1450. The peace of Italy threatened by new combinations[102]
” Federigo quits the service of Milan for that of Naples[103]
” The King employs him without exacting sureties[103]
1451. The Emperor Frederick III. comes to Italy, and is crowned at Rome[103]
1452. The Neapolitan campaign in Tuscany under Federigo and the Duke of Calabria[103]
1452-1453. Federigo goes to Naples, and returns in the spring[104]
1453. Attacked by malaria fever[104]
”July 26.His letter to the Priors of Siena[104]
” Uninteresting conclusion of the war[105]
”May 29.Fall of the Greek empire, and taking of Constantinople[106]
1454. Efforts of Nicholas V. for a general league against the Turks[107]
”April 9.The peace of Lodi[107]
1455.Mar. 24.The death and character of Nicholas V.[107]
1454. Federigo's friendly visit to the King of Naples[108]
1455.Jan. 26.The King ratifies the league with an unfortunate reservation[109]
1457. Federigo takes measures for humbling Sigismondo[109]
”April.Visits Florence, Bologna, Milan, and Mantua[109]
” His fruitless interview with Sigismondo at Modena[110]
”June.He goes to Naples for assistance; many intrigues there[110]
” Death of his Countess Gentile[111]
”Nov. 7.Asks a mortar-founder from Siena[111]
” He attacks Sigismondo[112]
1458.May 2.His despatch to the Priors of Siena[112]
”July 1.Death of Alfonso of Naples[113]
”Aug. 6.Death of Calixtus III.[113]
” Ambitious intrigues of Giacomo Piccinino, who seizes on part of the ecclesiastical territory[114]
” Federigo continued as Captain-general by Ferdinand of Naples[115]
” New disputes for the crown of Naples[115]
1459.May 27.Pius II. summons a European congress at Mantua[116]
” His mediation between Malatesta and the Count of Urbino[116]
”June 21.His letter to Federigo[117]
” His award in favour of Federigo[119]