[26] Mariana, Hist. de España, tom. ii. lib. 28, cap. 5.—Guicciardini, Istoria, tom. i. lib. 6, p. 328.—Machiavelli, Legazione Prima a Roma, let. 44.—Ulloa, Vita di Carlo V., fol. 22.—Chrónica del Gran Capitan, cap. 107, 108.—The Neapolitan conquests, it will be remembered, were undertaken exclusively for the crown of Aragon, the revenues of which were far more limited than those of Castile.
[27] Bernaldez, Reyes Católicos, MS., cap. 188.—Chrónica del Gran Capitan, lib. 2, cap. 108.—Garibay, Compendio, tom. ii. lib. 19, cap, 16.—Guicciardini, Istoria, lib. 6, p. 328.—Zurita, Anales, tom. v. lib. 5, cap. 58.
[28] Giovio, Vita Magni Gonsalvi, fol. 265.—Garnier, Hist. de France, tom. v. p. 445.—Zurita, Anales, tom. v. lib. 5, cap. 59.—Buonaccorsi, Diario, fol. 85.—Ulloa, Vita di Carlo V., fol. 22.—Varillas, Hist. de Louis XII., tom. i. pp. 401, 402.
[29] Garnier, Hist. de France, tom. v. pp. 440-443.—Giovio, Vitae Illust.
Virorum, fol. 264, 265.—Guicciardini, Istoria, tom. i. lib. 6, p. 329.—
Machiavelli, Legazione Prima a Roma, let. 44.—St. Gelais, Hist. de Louys
XII., pp. 173, 174.
[30] Chrónica del Gran Capitan, lib. 2, cap. 106.—Mémoires de Bayard, chap. 25, apud Petitot, Collection des Mémoires, tom. xv.—Varillas, Hist. de Louis XII., tom. i. p. 417.—Quintana, Españoles Célebres, tom. i. pp. 288-290.—Machiavelli, Legazione Prima a Roma, let. 39, 44.
[31] Compare the prose romances of D'Auton, of the "loyal serviteur" of Bayard, and the no less loyal biographer of the Great Captain, with the poetic ones of Ariosto, Berni, and the like.
"Magnanima menzogna! or quando è il vero
Si bello, che si possa a te preporre?"
CHAPTER XV.
ITALIAN WARS.—ROUT OF THE GARIGLIANO.—TREATY WITH FRANCE.—GONSALVO'S MILITARY CONDUCT.
1503, 1504.