x. The last is on this occasion the best, and has been

chiefly followed in the text.

[120] Note 11.

[121] Burriel, p. 430; Bonoli, vol. ii. p. 260.

[122] Burriel, p. 431.

[123] Burriel, p. 450.

[124] Burriel, p. 446.

[125] Burriel, lib. ii. cap. xviii.

[126] Burriel, p. 492.

[127] Guicciardini, lib. i.; Bonoli, vol. ii. p. 270.

[128] Burriel, p. 579.

[129] Bonoli, vol. ii. p. 274; Burriel, p. 579; Vecchiazzani, vol. ii. p. 187.

[130] Cobelli, p. 277.

[131] Note 12.

[132] Burriel, p. 582.

[133] Litta. Famig. de' Medici.

[134] Burriel, lib. iii. chap. ii.

[135] Burriel, p. 629.

[136] Bonoli, vol. ii. p. 277.

[137] Burriel, p. 673.

[138] Opere di Macchiavelli. Italia. 1813, vol. vi. p. 7.

[139] Burriel, p. 725.

[140] Burriel, p. 760.

[141] Bernardi, p. 410.

[142] Burriel, p. 783.

[143] Burriel, p. 817.

[144] Fabio Oliva.

[145] Vecchiazzani, vol. ii. p. 203.

[146] Burriel, p. 823.

[147] Girlhood of Cat. de' Medici, cap. 10.

[148] Note 13.

[149] Storia di Nap., lib, i. cap. 1.

[150] He speaks, indeed, (p. 236) of Sciarra as a brother of Ascanio: adding, that he was illegitimate.

[151] Coppi, Mem. Col., p. 269.

[152] Which is the truly wonderful assertion of M. le Fevre Deumier, in his little volume entitled "Vittoria Colonna;" Paris, 1856, p. 7.

[153] As it would appear they must have been, from the dates given above to show that Vittoria must have been their first child.

[154] Coppi Mem. Col., p. 228.

[155] Coppi. Mem. Col., p. 243.

[156] Book v. chap. ii.

[157] Book xvii. chaps. iii. and iv.

[158] Giovio, Vita del Mar. di Pescara, Venice, 1557, p. 14.

[159] Visconti, Rimi di Vit. Col., p. 39. See portrait prefixed to this volume.

[160] Coppi, Mem. Col., p. 249.

[161] Note 1.

[162] Passeri, p. 122.

[163] Passeri, p. 126.

[164] Passeri, p. 146.

[165] Passeri, p. 151.

[166] Passeri, p. 152.

[167] Passeri, p. 162.

[168] Giovio, Bp. of Como, Life of Pescara, book i.

[169] Filocalo, MS. Life of Pescara, cited by Visconti, p. lxxxii.

[170] Giovio, lib. i.

[171] Visconti, p. 77.

[172] Passeri, p. 197.

[173] Passeri, p. 326.

[174] Passeri, p. 234.

[175] See Note 2.

[176] Ist. Ital., lib. xvi. cap. 4.

[177] Varchi, Storia Fiorentina, vol. i. p. 88, edit. Firenze, 1843.

[178] Varchi, p. 89.

[179] Lettere de Principi, vol. i. p. 87. See Letters from Giberto to Gismondo Santo, and to Domenico Sanli.

[180] Storia, lib. xvii. chap. iv.

[181] Guicciardini, lib. xvii. chap. iv.

[182] Vita, lib. i.

[183] Contemporary copy of the Act of Accusation, cited by Visconti, p. ci.

[184] See Note 3.

[185] See advertisement "ai lettori" of Rinaldo's Corso's edition of the sonnet. Venice, 1558.

[186] Madame Lamaze, Études sur Trois Femmes Celèbres; Paris, 1848, p. 41.

[187] Lettere di Bembo vol. i. p. 115, ed. 1560.

[188] Edit., Serassi pp. 14, 15, 37, 40.

[189] Mem. per la St. di Ferrara. di Antonio Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 333.

[190] Vita., p. cxiii.

[191] Letter dated 11th September 1537, from Bembo's Correspondence cited by Visconti, p. cxv.

[192] Visconti, p. cxiv.

[193] Visconti, p. cxvi.

[194] He left Rome 11th November, 1538. Letter from Contarini to Pole, cited by Ranke. Austin's transl., vol. i. p. 152.

[195] Caracciolo, Vita di Paolo 4, MS. Ranke, Popes, vol. i. p. 136, edit. cit.

[196] Ranke. ed. cit., vol. i. p. 217.

[197] Ed. cit., vol. i. p. 138.

[198] Bembo, Opere, vol. iii. p. 65.

[199] Opere, ed. Ven., p. 164.

[200] Annales, ad. ann. 1540.

[201] Visconti, p. 123.

[202] See Harford's Michael Angelo, vol. ii. p. 148, _et seq._

[203] Note 4.

[204] Harford's Michael Angelo, vol. ii. p. 158.

[205] Coppi. Mem. Col., p. 306.

[206] Especially Adriani, Storia di suoi tempi.

[207] Visconti, p. cxxvii.

[208] Contile, Lettere, p. 19; Venice, 1564.

[209] Note 5.

[210] Visconti, p. cxxxi. Printed also by Tiraboschi, vol. 7.

[211] Note 6.

[212] Lettere del Tolomei. Venezia, 1578.

[213] Visconti, p. cxxxiv.

[214] Condivi. Vita.

[215] See also, in support of the view taken in the text, "Historia di Forlimpopoli, di Matteo Vecchiazzani." Forlimpopoli, 1647. Page 140. Also, "Compendio della Storia della Città d'Imola; da Giuseppe Alberghetti." Imola, 1810. Page 248-9.

[216] The words in the original are "paludamentum" and "soccam" on neither of which does Ducange throw any satisfactory light.

[217] Anne Boleyn, whom Rome always deems to have been the sole cause of England's heresy.

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