[65] Of several statements as to the ducal revenue and expenditure which I have seen, none is distinct or satisfactory. The most detailed is in a MS. in the public library at Siena, K. III., No. 58, p. 240, but the sums have been inextricably blundered by the transcriber. See [Appendix VIII.]
[66] Vat. Ottob. MSS. No. 3142, f. 165, and Oliveriana MSS. No. 390, p. 63.
[67] The staro or stajo corresponded to a bushel; the amount of a soma is doubtful. A quatrino is 1/5 of a bajocco, that is, of a halfpenny in present value. A bolognino was about 7 1/3 farthings. See [vol. II., p. 259].
[*68] In 1562 Guidobaldo had augmented the tax on grain by leave of Pius IV. Cf. Ugolini, op. cit., vol. II., p. 28, and Pellegrini, Gubbio sotto i Conti e Duchi d'Urbino in Boll. per l'Umbria, vol. XI., p. 239 et seq., and esp. Celli, Tasse e Rivoluzione (Torino, 1892), p. 39.
[69] The magistrates of Urbino were four in number, a gonfaloniere chosen from the city nobles, a prior to represent the merchants, and two priors of the trades. The general council seems to have been open to all citizens.
[70] Vat. Ottob. MSS. No. 3141, ff. 160, 165, dated December 27, 1573.
[*71] Cf. a letter from Angelo Colocci to the Duke, printed by Morici, Due Umanisti Marchigiani in Boll. per l'Umbria, vol. II., p. 152; and for Music, Rossi, Appunti per la Storia della Musica alla Corte di Francesco Maria I. e di Guidobaldo della Rovere in Rassegna Emiliana (Modena, 1888), vol. I., fascicolo 8, and supra, p. [88], [note *1].
[*72] Cf. Celli, Le fortificazioni militari di Urbino, Pesaro e Senigallia (Castelpiano, 1896).
[73] "Tal sia di loro," a phrase which may perhaps only mean "be it so."
[74] Padre Checcucci, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Urbino, 1845.