[*283] For treaty, see Dumont, Corps Diplomatique, III., 445.
[284] We have spoken of this above.
[285] See Alberi, Relazioni Venete, series II., vol. III., Capello.
[*286] Cf. Burchard, III., 162. "Hurrah," cried the people, "for the Duchess of Ferrara! Hurrah for Pope Alexander VI.!" when the news was brought to Rome that the contract was signed. Lucrezia, in splendid attire, rode to offer thanks at S. Maria del Popolo. Four bishops and three hundred horse accompanied her.
[*287] Cf. Gregorovius, Lucrezia Borgia, p. 189 et seq. The wedding was celebrated on 30th December in the Cappella Paolina before the Pope, who sat on his throne attended by thirteen cardinals and the foreign ambassadors. The Emperor was not represented.
[288] Sanuto says 753 mouths, 426 horses, with 234 mules. See details in Mr. Rawdon Brown's Ragguagli, II., p. 192.
[289] Diarii di M. Sanuto, xxvii. f. 320. The reader is again referred to Roscoe's dissertation on the character of Lucrezia, for views which this letter tends to support. In Sanuto we find a very elaborate report of the marriage festivities which celebrated her arrival at Ferrara in 1502, and in which the Duchess of Urbino bore a distinguished part. It is perhaps the most graphic description of a cinque-cento pageant that has come down to us, and will be found in [XIII. of the Appendices].
[290] Urb. MSS. No. 1023, f. 188. In No. 904, f. 43, is the diary of a citizen of Urbino during the usurpation of Borgia, which has supplied us with many of the succeeding details.
[*291] In this year begins Diario delle Cose di Urbino, which Federico Madiai has published in Arch. St. per le Marche e per l'Umbria, vol. III., p. 423 et seq. It begins on January 18, the day on which Lucrezia came to Urbino, "con 150 cavalli e circa 2000 bocche." "Andò moglie di D. Ferrante figlio del Duca di Ferrara. Fu stimato che tra Gubbio, Cagli e Urbino il nostro Duca spendesse circa ottomila ducati." For Gubbio, see A. Pellegrini, Gubbio sotto i Conti e Duchi d'Urbino, in Boll. per l'Umbria, vol. XI., p. 211 et seq.
[292] This rudeness was, however, visited by the Signory with a sharp rebuke.—Sanuto's Diaries.