Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) / The Catholic Reaction

by John Addington Symonds

[62] Mutinelli, Storia Arcana, etc., vol. i. pp. 51-54.

[63] Assuming the population of Rome to have been about 90,000 at that date, this number appears incredible. Yet we have it on the best of all evidences, that of a resident Venetian envoy.

[64] Tiepolo, op. cit. p. 172.

[65] Paolo Tiepolo, op. cit. p. 312.

[66] Ibid. p. 214.

[67] The Venetians, when they inscribed his name upon the Libro d'Oro, called him 'a near relative of his Holiness.'

[68] This lady was a sister of the Count of Santa Fiora. For a detailed account of the wedding, see Mutinelli, Stor. arc. vol. i. p. 112.

[69] Tiepolo, op. cit. pp. 213, 219—221, 263, 266.

[70] Giov. Corraro, op. cit. p. 277.

[71] See Giov. Gritti, op. cit. p. 333.