[271] Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 1023, f. 141. It has been printed by Leone, p. 222.

[*272] "Gli pareva gran vergogna della Chiesa che ad un duchetto basti l'animo di fare questa novità; e il papa tremeva, ed era quasi fuor di sè." Cf. Giorgi, Relazioni Venete, 2nd series, vol. III., p. 47.

[273] This account is adopted by Leone, p. 230, by Sismondi, and by Centenelle, Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 907. Baldi (Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 906) and Guicciardini say that Lorenzo, having undergone much personal fatigue at the battery, was walking away to repose himself in a sheltered spot, when a bullet from the walls hit him on the head, grazing his skull to the nape of the neck.

[274] See above, [p. 325].

[275] Vat. Urb. MSS., No. 1023, art. vi.

[276] Vat. Urb. MSS., No. 907, f. 28, 30. The Minio despatches are full of details of this conspiracy unknown to Roscoe.

[277] Rymer, vol. IV., p. 135. On the 21st of December Lorenzo de' Medici had written to thank the King of England for his good wishes conveyed through the Bishop of Worcester, then resident at Rome. See a curious letter of the following June, from Wolsey to the usurping Duke, [Appendix VI.]

[278] Centenelle, Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 907.

[279] These anecdotes are preserved by Baldi, to whom, and to Minio Centenelle and Giraldi, we owe many new details of this campaign. Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 906, 907; Ottob. 3153.

[280] Molini, Documenti di Storia Italiana, I., pp. 122, 135.