[36] A very curious contract, preserved in Archivio Diplomatico at Florence, and dated 29th May, 1419, secures to her the exercise of her own religion and native usages during the marriage, and in case of widowhood, permits her return to Italy.

[*37] The Chronicle of Gubbio tells us that Cardinal Maramaldo, legate of the Pope in Umbria, had been promised the lordship of Assisi for his services, and that at this time he was in secret treaty with the Perugians to deliver Assisi to them. "Di che accortisi," says Cristofani (op. cit., p. 213), "i cittadini di Gubbio poco mancò, che non lapidassero il legato. Certo poi egli ebbe in seguito Assisi e la resse con titolo di vicario della Chiesa. Difatti in una sentenza registrata in forma pubblica a dì 18 di agosto 1413 in favor del monastero di S. Apollinare contro l'altro di S. Paolo si legge: nobilis ac potens comes Riccardus de ... gubernator Assisii pro illustri ac potenti domino Guidantonio comite montis feretri Assisii et Umbriæ pro S.R.E. Vicario" (Archivio di S. Apollinare in Assisi). The domination of Guidantonio in Assisi is much better confirmed by a series of letters at various times directed by him to the public officials of Assisi that are given in the Riformagioni, lib. H, VII. One of these is given dated, 29 July, 1415, from Gubbio, by Cristofani (op. cit., p. 214, note 1).

[*38] About 1416 the power of Braccio was very great. The Perugians had lost to him nearly all their fortified places; for this cause they hired Carlo Malatesta of Rimini, who was at the head of some 2000 horse and 800 infantry in Assisi; others, too, flocked to him. Towards the middle of July Carlo and his nephew Galeotto, half-brother to the famous Sigismondo, fell into the hands of Braccio, as some say, after the battle of S. Egidio, near Bastia, between Perugia and Assisi. The ransom was 120,000 ducats. See Cristofani, op. cit., p. 215, and Edward Hutton, op. cit., pp. 17-18.

[39]

"Papa Martino
Non val' un quatrino!"

[*40] But see L. Fumi, Guidantonio e la Città di Castello, in Bollettino per l'Umbria, vol. VI., pp. 377-401.

[*41] Cf. L. Bonazzi, St. di Perugia (Perugia, 1875), vol. II., p. 641.

[*42] The Golden Rose was conferred not infrequently on others besides royalty. Sigismondo Malatesta had it later.

[*43] It was in January.

[*44] Her name was Elisabetta.