[85] Bibl. Oliveriana, No. 375, vol. XI., p. 204.
[*86] Cf. Calogerà, Memorie concernenti Franc. Maria II. (Venice, 1776).
[87] Rosaries, corone, and such were helpmates or promptuaries to prayer, differing in form and varying in supposed efficacy, according to the special privileges and indulgences bestowed on them by ecclesiastical gift. A specimen of the nature and powers of such indulgences will be found in the description of a corona belonging to the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1666. See [Appendix VI.]
[*88] Cf. Reposati, Della Zecca di Gubbio, vol. II., p. 220 (Bologna, 1772-3). The date of this letter was June 7th, 1598.
[*90] Cf. Pellegrini, op. cit., in Boll. cit., vol. cit., p. 506 et seq. There seems always to have been an antagonism between Gubbio and Urbino, and now Gubbio could certainly crow. She appears to have done so. See note 2, p. 506, of work quoted. The country was not quiet after the rejoicing till May 30th, the festa being kept in all the cities. Corradi, Feste per il nascimento di un Principe nel sec. XVII. in Il Giornale di Foligno (Foligno, 1887), No. 28 et seq. describes the rejoicing in Cagli.
[91] In 1843-6, a variety of duplicates and objects of art belonging to the Vatican Library were exchanged away, with the sanction of Gregory XVI., whilst my lamented friend Monsignore Laureani, the librarian, was forming, by that Pontiff's order, from very limited resources, a most interesting series of early panel pictures illustrating the progress of Christian painting. The portrait of Prince Federigo now belongs to my friend Andrew Coventry, Esq., Edinburgh, and appears the production of a scholar of Baroccio.
[92] Oliveriana MSS. No. 375.
[93] Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 818, f. 444.
[94] A comparison of this stately entertainment with the ceremonial at the baptism of Prince Henry of Scotland in 1594, as given in the Lives of the Lindsays, vol. I., 382, from a rare contemporary pamphlet, shows how Italian revels influenced the courtly displays of our ancestors, due allowance being made for the difference of climate and the somewhat more material attractions of the northern festivity.