[249] Roscoe, in a note to chapter iii. of the recent editions of Leo X., discusses the conflicting assertions as to the Pope's encouragement of Charles's expedition.
[*250] For all concerning Lucrezia, see Gregorovius, Lucrezia Borgia.
[251] Stephani Infessuri Diarium Romanæ, in Muratori, R.I.S., III., p. ii., p. 1246. He dates the marriage ceremony the 12th of June, 1493.
[252] Gaye, Carteggio, I., p. 326. See a contemporary estimate of the invading army in [VIII. of the Appendix].
[253] Our French authorities for this expedition are valuable, including Comines, and André de la Vigne, contemporaries who shared in its hazards. A curious essay by M. de Foncemagne, ascribing to Charles the ambition of a crusader, and pointing at Constantinople as its real destination, will be found in vol. XVII., p. 539 of Mémoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions.
[254] Carteggio, I., p. 213.
[*255] These words are infinitely misleading.
[256] See some details of it in [IX. of the Appendix].
[257] See their pedigree, so far as concerns our subject, in the [table] at the end of this volume.
[258] Marino Sanuto's Diary MS. i. 374. From another passage in his annals we learn that a then usual scale of ransom was twenty-five ducats for a man-at-arms, twelve for a light-horseman, and three for a foot-soldier. These Diaries extend to fifty-seven large volumes, from 1495 to 1533. Our various extracts from them were most kindly communicated to us by Mr. Rawdon Brown, who has printed at Venice a very curious digest of their contents, and whose successful diligence in illustrating the secret history of that Republic may well put her own citizens to the blush. They are preserved in Bib. Marciana, MSS. Ital. classe vii. No. 419.