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8<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

by reading Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso,"* died a penitent<br />

sinner. Gentile Baglioni, who had been banished by<br />

him, received his possessions. Perugia retained only a<br />

nominal liberty, <strong>the</strong> Legate, Silvio Passerini, Cardinal <strong>of</strong><br />

Cortona, being <strong>the</strong> actual governor.-j-<br />

During <strong>the</strong>se events, negotiations for <strong>the</strong> forming <strong>of</strong> a<br />

triple alliance between <strong>the</strong> Pope, France, and Venice fell<br />

through because <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> refusal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Signoria to accept<br />

<strong>the</strong> clause agreed to by Francis I. in October, relating<br />

to <strong>the</strong> co-operation against <strong>the</strong> Pope's insubordinate<br />

vassals, or, in o<strong>the</strong>r words, against Ferrara.J<br />

It was most important that just at this crisis Charles V.<br />

should have sent a new Ambassador to Rome in <strong>the</strong><br />

person <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Castilian, Juan Manuel, who had "grown<br />

was "al primo revellino," beheaded in <strong>the</strong> Castle ; *el corpo fo portato<br />

a S. Maria Traspontina, benche prima fosse deliberate ponerlo in<br />

publico, ma el papa ad le preci del S. Renzo da Ceri revoco dicta<br />

deliberatione {cf. Sanuto, XXIX., 603). In a second *Report <strong>of</strong><br />

June 4, 1 52 1, Germanello specifies <strong>the</strong> hour <strong>of</strong> execution: Allidoi<br />

del presente ad hore doi e meza de nocte. Cf. <strong>the</strong> *Diary in Cod.<br />

Barb. lat. 3552 (beheading <strong>of</strong> Baglioni on June 2), Vatican Library,<br />

and <strong>the</strong> *Letter <strong>of</strong> Stefano Safifa (detto TEremita), dated <strong>from</strong> Rome,<br />

June 6, 1520, who states explicitly that Baglioni went to confession<br />

before he was put to death (State Archives, Modena). Alfani {loc.<br />

«/.), following Fabretti and Gregorovius (VII., 247), erroneously<br />

places <strong>the</strong> execution on June 11. A *Letter <strong>of</strong> Fabrizio Pellegrino,<br />

dated <strong>from</strong> Rome, June 7, 1520, speaks as follows about this thrilling<br />

event : Da molti e judicato chel papa non habia voluto andar in<br />

processione per paura de non esser morto ; el se vede per le guardie<br />

grande. (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua.) Even in October and December<br />

<strong>the</strong> Pope feared traps on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baglioni's relative, Camillo<br />

Orsini (Sanuto, XXIX., 342, 423).<br />

* Paolucci, in a *letter <strong>of</strong> May 26, 1520, quoted Vol. VII. <strong>of</strong> this<br />

work, 398 seq.., reports thus : Joan Paulo Baione vive si come intendo<br />

et si fa legiere Orlando furioso. State Archives, Modena.<br />

t VermiGLIOLI, loc. cit., 31 seq. ;<br />

X NlTTl, 266 seqq.<br />

BONAZZI, II., 81 seqq.

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