[225] The reverse of this caricatured portrait may be found in a curious account of this unfortunate prince's romantic adventures, given by the Turkish historian, Saadeddin-effendi, and printed by Masse in his Histoire du Pape Alexander VI., pp. 382-408.
[*226] For authorities for Pope Julius II., cf. Creighton, vol. V., pp. 305-6, where an excellent résumé is given.
[227] He had certainly two natural children, and Bernardo Capello alludes to the inroads upon his constitution, occasioned by gout and morbus Gallicus (Ranke, App., sect. i., No. 6); the latter term seems, however, to have been often in that age completely misapplied.
[228] Ranke, Appendix, sect. i. No. 6.
[*229] William Roscoe, Life of Leo X., 4 vols. (3rd ed.), 1847.
[*230] See Marcucci: Francesco Maria I. della Rovere (Sinigaglia, 1903).
[*231] She was betrothed in the same month in which her father died. The marriage had long been desired by Elisabetta. Giustiniani mentions a report of it in his Despatches (Dispacci, vol. II., p. 359) even in 1503. Mrs. Ady (Isabella d'Este, vol. I., p. 267) says the Marquis of Mantua desired it "as a means of obtaining the Cardinalate which he had been striving to obtain for his brother during the last fifteen years."
[232] Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 904, f. 89.
[*233] Cf. Luzio e Renier, Mantova ed Urbino (Torino, 1893), p. 182.
[*234] The document is printed by Luzzatto, Comune e principato in Urbino nei secc. xv. e xvi., in Le Marche (1905), An. v., p. 196 et seq.