[105] Marini, Saggio di S. Leo.
[106] As a specimen of the style of this most disappointing MS., and in proof of its small historical importance, I extract all the notices for August 1621, the month in which, according to Passeri, this transaction took place.
"6. News arrived of the death of the Archduke Albert, which happened at Brussels on the 13th ult.
15. Vespers began to be performed in the church of S. Rocca of Castel Durante.
21. A stag was killed, weighing fully 530 lbs.
26. Four large English dogs coursed in the park, which belong to the Prince; they killed two fallow deer."
[107] It appears that on the 25th of July the Prince arrived from Urbino, and stayed two days, during which probably this scene took place.
[108] The succeeding entry abruptly concludes the Journal:—"March 7. The Prince arrived about 10 A.M., having left Pesaro the preceding day, and returned there the 10th;" probably his last meeting with his father.
[109] See these and other monumental inscriptions of Urbino sovereigns, [Appendix, No. VII.]
[*110] Cf. Memorie istoriche concernenti la devoluzione dello stato d'Urbino alla Sede Apostolica (Amsterdam, 1723).