[40] That is, the French cardinals, who took part against Urban. It should seem as if some such phrase as "tolerate them" were left out after the words "otherwise not."
[41] Burlamacchi remarks, that this passage seems to indicate that Catherine had an intention of going to Paris.
[42] This last phrase forms the conclusion of every one of the Saint's letters.
[43] Lib. i. cap. i.
[44] Vita di Caterina Sforza, dall'Abate Antonio Burriel, 3 vols. 4to. Bologna, 1795. Burriel was a Spanish priest; and his work, which I shall frequently have occasion to quote, is not deficient in research and painstaking, though it is the production of a thorough-going partisan, and one perfectly imbued with the opinion, that not only kings, but all royal and noble persons, whether mitred or coroneted, can do no wrong.
[45] Guicciardini, lib. i. cap. i.
[46] Burriel, lib. i. cap. i.
[47] Corio, Historia di Milano, ad ann. 1471.
[48] Verri, Storia di Milano, cap. xviii. Corio, all'anno 1471. Rosmini, Istoria di Milano, vol. iii. p. 19. This learned, accurate, and trustworthy History of Milan, was printed in that city in four vols. 4to, 1820.
[49] Burriel, vol. i. p. 27.