(2)
Pasquale Villari in his Machiavelli i suoi Tempi
(3)
See Burchard's Diarium, Thuasne Edition, Vol. II. p.442 et seq.
(4)
He was not ordained priest until 1471, after the election of Sixtus IV.
(5)
Don Francisco de Borja, born at Valencia in 1441.
(6)
Macchiavelli, Istorie Fiorentine.
(7)
In a letter to Francesco Gonzaga.
(8)
Istorie Florentine.
(9)
Istoria d'Italia.
(10)
See the supplement to the Appendix of Thuasne's edition of Burchard's Diarium.
(11)
D'Arignano is as much a fiction as the rest of Infessura's story.
(12)
"Facendomi intendere the epsa Duchessa e di eta di anni ventidui, li quali finiranno a questo Aprile; in el qual tempo anche lo Illmo. Duca di Romagna fornira anni ventisei."
(13)
A contract never executed.
(14)
"Item mes attenent que dita Dona Lucretia a XVIIII de Abril prop. vinent entrara in edat de dotze anys."
(15)
1 The glory of the Sistine Chapel, however, is Michelangelo's "Last Judgement," which was added later, in the reign of Pope Julius II
(Giuliano della Rovere).
(16)
The gold florin, ducat, or crown was equal to ten shillings of our present money, and had a purchasing power of five times that amount.
(17)
Macchiavelli, Istorie Fiorentine.
