[10] Platina, tom. i. p. 369.
[11] The conclave gave a name to the new pontiff, because he was absent from Rome at the time of his election.
[12] Platina, tom. i. p. 370.
[13] Voltaire, Essai sur les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Nations, chap. 69. The Cavaliere Tonelli is of opinion, that Joanna was innocent of this crime, which is not imputed to her by the best Neapolitan historians, Costanzo and Giannone. See Ton. Tr. tom. i. p. 16.
[14] Platina, tom. i. p. 372.
[15] Poggius de Varietate Fortunæ, p. 56. Ammirato Istorie Fiorentine, P. I. T. II. p. 752.
[16] Platina, tom. i. p. 373, 374. Giannone, lib. xxiv. cap. i.
[17] Vide Poggii Epistolas lvii, a Johanne Oliva Rhodigino vulgatas ad calcem librorum de Varietate Fortunæ, p. 199.
[18] Alter Urbanum olim summum pontificem leviter perstrinxit. Nam cum ille nescio quid acrius a pontifice contenderet, “malo capite es” inquit Urbanus. Tum ille “hoc idem” inquit “et de te vulgi dicunt homines pater sancte.” Poggii Opera, edit. Basil. p. 428.
[19] Platina, tom. i. p. 376.