[I.] Portraits of Cesare Borgia[459]
[II.] Duke Guidobaldo I. of Urbino, a Knight of the Garter[462]
[III.] Giovanni Sanzi's MS. Chronicle of Federigo, Duke of Urbino[471]
[IV.] Epitaph of Giovanni della Rovere[480]
[V.] Remission and rehabilitation of Duke Francesco Maria I. in 1512-13[481]
[VI.] Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to Lorenzo de' Medici[484]
[Genealogical Tables][At end of book]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

Elisabetta di Montefeltro, Duchess of Urbino. After the picture by Andrea Mantegna in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Alinari)[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Il Castello di Sinigaglia. (Photo Alinari)[10]
Pope Julius II. From the picture by Raphael in the Pitti Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)[40]
Portrait of a lady, her hair dressed in the manner of the fifteenth century. From the picture by ? Verrocchio in Poldo-Pezzoli Collection, Milan. (Photo Alinari)[44]
A lady of the fifteenth century with jewels of the period. (Photo Alinari)[48]
Count Baldassare Castiglione. From a picture in the Torlonia Gallery, Rome[50]
Hair dressing in the fifteenth century. Detail from the fresco by Pisanello in S. Anastasia of Verona. (Photo Alinari)[54]
Cardinal Bembo. From a drawing once in the possession of Cavaliere Agricola in Rome[62]
Elisabetta Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino. From a lead medal by Adriano Fiorentino in the British Museum. By the courtesy of G.F. Hill, Esq.[72]
Emilia Pia. From a medal by Adriano Fiorentino in the Vienna Museum. By the courtesy of G.F. Hill, Esq.[72]
Hair dressing in the sixteenth century. After a picture by Bissolo. (Photo Alinari)[76]
Portrait of a lady in mourning. After the picture by Pordenone in the Dresden Gallery. (Photo R. Tammé)[84]
S. Martin and S. Thomas with Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino, and Bishop Arrivabeni. After the picture by Timoteo Viti in the Duomo of Urbino. (Photo Alinari)[88]
Baldassare Castiglione. After the picture by Raphael in the Louvre.[120]
Madonna del Belvedere. After the fresco by Ottaviano Nelli in S. Maria Nuova, Gubbio[190]
Madonna del Soccorso. After the gonfalone by a pupil of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo in S. Francesco, Montone[196]
Raphael, aged six years. From a picture once in the possession of James Dennistoun[216]
Raphael. After the portrait by himself in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)[220]
Madonna and child. After the picture by Giovanni Santi, in the Pinacoteca of Urbino. (Photo Alinari)[224]
Ecce Homo. From the picture by Giovanni Santi in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. (Photo Alinari)[226]
S. Sebastian. After the picture by Timoteo Viti in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. (Photo Alinari)[228]
Margherita "La Fornarina." After the picture by Raphael called La Donna Velata in the Pitti Gallery, Florence. (Photo Alinari)[230]
Margherita "La Fornarina." After the spoiled picture by Raphael in the Galleria Barberini in Rome. (Photo Anderson)[232]
The Sposalizio. After the picture by Raphael, once in the Ducal Collection at Urbino, now in the Brera, Milan. (Photo Alinari)[240]
Isabella of Aragon. After the picture by Raphael in the Louvre[246]
St. Sebastian. From the picture by Timoteo Viti in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. (Photo Alinari)[254]
Francesco Maria I. della Rovere. After the picture by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (From the Ducal Collection.) (Photo Alinari)[314]
Venetian wedding-dress in the sixteenth century. After the picture called "La Flora" by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)[316]
Detail of the Urbino Venus. Supposed portrait of Duchess Leonora, from the picture by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)[320]
The girl in the fur-cloak. Possibly a portrait of Duchess Leonora of Urbino. After the picture by Titian in the Imperial Gallery, Vienna. (Photo Franz Hanfstaengl)[324]
Duchess of Urbino, either Eleonora or Giulia Varana. After the picture by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Painted ca. 1538. (Photo Brogi)[328]
Leo X. After the picture by Raphael in the Pitti Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)[352]
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. After the picture by Bronzino in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Alinari)[366]

[CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE]

[CHAPTER XIX]

A.D. PAGE
1502.Dec.Valentino marches against Sinigaglia[3]
”” 28.Which surrenders[4]
”” 31.Cesare massacres the confederate chiefs[4]
1503.Jan. 2.His letter to the authorities at Perugia[6]
”Feb. 22.Cardinal Orsini poisoned at Rome[8]
”Jan.Machiavelli's indifference to the massacre[8]
””General extinction of moral feeling[10]
”” 18.Further murders of the chiefs[11]
””Valentino in the Val di Chiana[11]
””Jealousy of Louis XII.[11]
””State of affairs at Urbino[12]
”June.Siege of San Leo[13]
””Relieved by a dexterous stroke[13]
” The Pontiff's wholesale poisonings[15]
”Aug. 18.To which he fell himself a victim[16]
””The various accounts of this examined[17]
””His character[19]
””Valentino's narrow escape from the same fate[19]
””His policy[20]
””Results of the Pope's death at Rome[21]
”Sep. 22.Election of Pius III.[22]