[195] This condotta is preserved in the Oliveriana MSS. The diary of Duke Francesco Maria II. gives a slightly varied version of the engagement, and explains that, of the gross allowance, 45,000 ducats in war and 25,000 in peace were the general's personal pay. The war of Ferrara is minutely detailed by Sanuto; in the Scriptores, xxii. 1215; and in a volume of Commentaries privately printed at Venice, in 1829; also by Cyrneo, in Scriptores, xii., 1189. Sanzi's chronicle supplies very ample particulars, as does Vespasiano.

[196] This letter by no means bears out the allegation in support of which it has been referred to by Roscoe,—that the preparation and direction of this war chiefly rested on Lorenzo de' Medici, and that on his activity and prudence the allies mainly relied. There is no evidence whether he fully carried out the suggestions here made, but it is quite clear that Federigo received from none of his confederates adequate support during the campaign.

[197] See ch. xxviii. and Appendix to vol. II.

[198] Sanzi.

[199] Machiavelli says he died at Bologna, but this is a mistake. Sanzi tells us he meant to do so, but was persuaded by the Duchess Leonora to prefer her capital.

[200] Vespasiano da Bisticci.

[*201] He died on the same day (September 10) as the Duke. See Bern. Zambotto, Silva Cronicarum, Bib. Civica di Ferrara, MS. 470, f. 104 v. under Settem. 10, 1482: "The Duke of Urbino, Captain-General of all the army of the league, returning sick, in the ducal chambers of the garden towards our Duke's chapel of Our Lady in the palace with continual fever, died to-day at the sixteenth hour, and I saw him lying dead in his room under a covering of crimson velvet. He was conveyed by his own people to Urbino to be buried." Zambotto is writing in Ferrara, the palace—corte—is the present Palazzo del Municipio, and "our Duke" is the Duke of Ferrara. I am able to publish this note by the kindness of Mr. E.G. Gardner who sent it me. His book Dukes and Poets at Ferrara (Constable, 1904) should be consulted concerning Ferrara.

[202] The following pompous epitaph was written for Roberto:—

"Io son colui che venne, vidi, e vinsi
L'invitto Duce, e Roma liberai,
E lui da gloria, e me da vita spinsi."
The chief was I who came, and saw, and beat
The Duke, till then unconquered, freeing Rome.
I spilt my life, but spent my foeman's fame.

[203] Vespasiano's Commentary, Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 941, fol. 50.