[255] As a specimen of the very loose diction even of public despatches in this age, and of the obstacles which a translator has to encounter, we shall render literally the next sentence, or rather half page, sentences not being divided in the original. "And so the fourth day of the present month of May, which was Saturday, the foresaid army made his lodgment at seven miles from Rome, in a place which is called the Isle; Monsieur di Borbone and all the principal persons were filled with much wonder that the Pope and so many cardinals and all Rome, being disarmed, should wait for such an army and great danger, without sending to the said Monsieur di Borbone an ambassador to make some parley, nor letters, or answer to his letters which the said M. di Borbone had formerly written, and the Viceroy, to his Holiness about the affair of the agreement."

[256] Sanuto Diarii, xlv. 352.

[257] A condotto, or military engagement, was usually for so many years certain, and one or two more at the option or beneplacito of parties.

[258] Vat. Urb. MSS. 816, fol. 144-5.

[259] From a league between Count Antonio, of Urbino, and Barnabo Visconti, of Milan, in 1376 (MSS. Oliveriana, No. 374, vol. I., p. 1), we gather an isolated notice. Free import from the territory of Urbino into Florence was stipulated for all sorts of grain, fruit, and vegetables, the customary duties being paid upon wheat, oats, and barley.

[260] Series II., vol. II., p. 337, from a MS. in the Siena Library, K. iii. 58: it is dated 1579, but contains posterior entries.

[261] The word used is colte, which might mean crops.

[262] Fabbriche might mean only shops.

[263] Vat. Urb. MSS., No. 935.

[264] Ibid.

[265] Vat. Ottob. MSS., No. 3135, f. 279.

[266] Ibid., f. 277, 321.

[267] Vol. LXVI., pp. 3-10.

[*268] The Pitti portrait is an inferior replica of that in the Tribune of the Uffizi.

[*269] Gronau thinks this portrait may be the so-called "Young Englishman" of the Pitti Gallery (No. 92). Cf. Gronau, op. cit.

[*270] This picture is not by Titian, but by Marco Vecellio.

[*271] This picture no longer hangs in the Pitti Gallery.

[*272] No. 619, Uffizi, I suppose. It is by Palma Vecchio.