[269] Molini Documenti di Storia Italiana, i. 29.

[270] See the curious disclosures of a Venetian ambassador, printed by Ranke, History of the Popes, Appendix, sect. i., No. 3. The exposition, by Machiavelli, of the French policy, and of the persevering pursuit of sovereignty by the Borgia, is interesting and instructive; Il Principe, ch. iii. and vii.

[271] See a more correct statement of this transaction, above, pp. [72], [90].

[272] British and Foreign Review, No. xxix.

[273] See above, [p. 308].

[274] Some interesting particulars of his arrival in France will be found in [XI. of the Appendices].

[275]

"'Borgia Cæsar eram, factis et nomine Cæsar;
Aut nihil aut Cæsar,' dixit: utrumque fuit."

The idea was thus repeated by Sannazaro:—

"Aut nihil aut Cæsar vult dici Borgia: quid ni?
Cum simul et Cæsar possit, et esse nihil."
Cæsar or nothing, Borgia fain would be;
Cæsar and nothing, both in him we see.