"GONZALI FERNANDEZ DE CORDOVA,
Qui propria virtute
Magni Ducis nomen
Proprium sibi fecit,
Ossa,
Perpetuae tandem
Luci restituenda,
Huic interea tumulo
Credita sunt;
Gloria minime consepulta."
[16] Navagiero, Viaggio, fol. 24.
On the top of the monument was seen the marble effigy of the Great Captain, armed and kneeling. The banners and other military trophies, which continued to garnish the walls of the chapel, according to Pedraza, as late as 1600, had disappeared before the eighteenth century; at least we may infer so from Colmenar's silence respecting them in his account of the sepulchre. Pedraza, Antiguedad de Granada, fol. 114.—Colmenar, Délices de l'Espagne, tom. iii p. 505.
[±7] Chrónica del Gran Capitan, lib. 3, cap. 9.—Giovio, Vitae Illust. Virorum, fol. 292.
Gonsalvo was created duke of Terra Nuova and Sessa, and marquis of Bitonto, all in Italy, with estates of the value of 40,000 ducats rent. He was also grand constable of Naples, and a nobleman of Venice. His princely honors were transmitted by Doña Elvira to her son, Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordova, who filled the posts, under Charles V., of governor of Milan, and captain general of Italy. Under Philip II., his descendants were raised to a Spanish dukedom, with the title of Dukes of Baena. L. Marineo, Cosas Memorables, fol. 24.—Ulloa, Vita di Carlo V., fol. 41.—Salazar de Mendoza, Dignidades, p. 307.
[18] Opus Epist., epist. 498.—Giovio, Vita Magni Gonsalvi, p. 292.— Pulgar, Sumario, p. 212.
[19] Gonsalvo assumed for his device a cross-bow moved by a pulley, with the motto, "Ingenium superat vires." It was characteristic of a mind trusting more to policy than force and daring exploit. Brantôme, Oeuvres, tom. i. p. 75.
[20] Giovio, Vitae Illust. Virorum, p. 271.
[21] Ibid., p. 281.—Giannone, Istoria di Napoli, lib. 30, cap. 1, 5.