[55] Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 934, is an elaborate exposition of the devices and mottoes displayed on this august occasion.
[*56] Cf. Fattori, Delle cause che hanno conservata la Repubblica di S. Marino (Bologna, 1887).
[57] Tondini, Memorie di Franceschino Marchetti, App., p. 16.
[*58] It was probably the work of Girolamo Genga (1476-1551) and his son Bartolomeo (1518-58). It is now the Prefettura. It has never struck me as "mean," but rather as being a somewhat imposing building.
[59] See these devices explained in [No. V. of the Appendix to Vol. I.] The respective importance of the ducal residences is marked by their colloquial epithets,—the corte at Urbino, the palazzo at Pesaro, the casa at Gubbio.
[*60] For all that concerns Santa Fiora and the Sforza-Cesarini, see a forthcoming work by Edward Hutton, with notes by William Heywood, entitled In Unknown Tuscany (Methuen). It deals with the whole history of Mont'Amiata and its castles and villages.
[61] Some authorities represent him as receiving this Order eleven years later from Charles V., but that Emperor died in this very year. He is said to have had knighthood from the Pope in 1561.
[62] From an account of this engagement preserved among the Oliveriana MSS., and slightly differing from that by Bernardo Tasso (II., letter 166), we learn that the pay of officers was from 15 to 40 scudi a month, that of cavalry privates 5, and of infantry 3 scudi. It appears to have been worth to Guidobaldo in all about 35,000 scudi a year, but to have been irregularly received.
[63] Vat. Ottob. MSS. No. 2510, f. 201.
[64] That of Mocenigo, 1570, is printed by Vieussieux, second series, vol. II., p. 97, and in the Tesoro Politico, II., 169; that of Zen or Zane, 1574, in the same volume of Vieussieux, p. 315.