CHAPTER XIX

A.D. PAGE

1502. Dec. Valentino marches against Sinigaglia 3

" " 28. Which surrenders 4

" " 31. Cesare massacres the confederate chiefs 4

1503. Jan. 2. His letter to the authorities at Perugia 6

" Feb. 22. Cardinal Orsini poisoned at Rome 8

" Jan. Machiavelli's indifference to the massacre 8

" " General extinction of moral feeling 10

" " 18. Further murders of the chiefs 11

" " Valentino in the Val di Chiana 11

" " Jealousy of Louis XII. 11

" " State of affairs at Urbino 12

" June. Siege of San Leo 13

" " Relieved by a dexterous stroke 13

" The Pontiff's wholesale poisonings 15

" Aug. 18. To which he fell himself a victim 16

" " The various accounts of this examined 17

" " His character 19

" " Valentino's narrow escape from the same fate 19

" " His policy 20

" " Results of the Pope's death at Rome 21

" Sep. 22. Election of Pius III. 22