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MEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO

Illustrating the Arms, Arts & Literature of Italy, 1440-1630

by

JAMES DENNISTOUN OF DENNISTOUN

A New Edition with Notes by Edward Hutton & Over a Hundred Illustrations

In Three Volumes. VOLUME THREE

London John Lane The Bodley Head New York John Lane Company MCMIX

William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Printers, Plymouth

FRANCESCO MARIA II. DELLA ROVERE, DUKE OF URBINO

_After the picture by Baroccio in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence_]

CONTENTS

BOOK SIXTH

(_Continued_)

OF FRANCESCO MARIA DELLA ROVERE, FOURTH DUKE OF URBINO

PAGE

CHAPTER XXXIX

Causes which led to the sack of Rome--The assault--Death of
Bourbon--Atrocities of his soldiery--The Duke of Urbino's
fatal delays--The Pontiff's capitulation and escape--Policy
of the Emperor 3

CHAPTER XL

The Duke's mischievous Policy--New league against Charles
V.--A French army reaches Naples--The Duke's campaign in
Lombardy--Peace restored--Siege of Florence--Coronation of
the Emperor at Bologna--The independence of Italy finally
lost--Leonora Duchess of Urbino--The Duke's Military Discourses 34

CHAPTER XLI

Italian Militia--The Camerino disputes--Death of Clement
VII.--Marriage of Prince Guidobaldo--Proposed Turkish crusade
under the Duke--His death and character 60

BOOK SEVENTH

OF GUIDOBALDO DELLA ROVERE, FIFTH DUKE OF URBINO

CHAPTER XLII

Succession of Duke Guidobaldo II.--He loses Camerino and
the Prefecture of Rome--The altered state of Italy--Death
of Duchess Giulia--The Duke's remarriage--Affairs of the
Farnesi 85

CHAPTER XLIII

The Duke's domestic affairs--Policy of Paul IV.--The Duke
enters the Spanish service--Rebellion at Urbino severely
repressed--His death and character--His children 106

BOOK EIGHTH

OF FRANCESCO MARIA II. DELLA ROVERE, SIXTH AND LAST DUKE OF URBINO

CHAPTER XLIV

Autobiography of Duke Francesco Maria II.--His visit to the
Spanish Court--His studious habits--His marriage--Is engaged
in the naval action of Lepanto--Succeeds to the dukedom 129

CHAPTER XLV

The unsatisfactory results of his marriage--He separates from
the Duchess--His court and habits--Death of the Duchess--He
remarries 152

CHAPTER XLVI

Birth of Prince Federigo--The Duke's retired habits and
aversion to business--His constitution-making experiments--His
instructions to his son--The Prince's unfortunate education
and character 173

CHAPTER XLVII

The Prince's marriage--The Duke entrusts to him the government,
and retires to Castel Durante--His dissolute career and
early death--Birth of his daughter Vittoria--The Duke rouses
himself--He arranges the devolution of his state to the Holy
See--Papal intrigues 196

CHAPTER XLVIII

The Duke's monkish seclusion--His death and character--His
portraits and letters--Notices of Princess Vittoria, and
her inheritance--Fate of the ducal libraries--The duchy
incorporated with the Papal States--Results of the Devolution 224

BOOK NINTH

OF LITERATURE AND ART UNDER THE DUKES DELLA ROVERE AT URBINO

CHAPTER XLIX

Italian literature subject to new influences--The
Academies--Federigo Comandino--Guidobaldo del Monte--The
Paciotti--Leonardi--Muzio Oddi--Bernardino Baldi--Girolamo
Muzio--Federigo Bonaventura 253

CHAPTER L

Italian versification--Ariosto--Pietro Aretino--Vittoria
Colonna--Laura Battiferri--Dionigi Atanagi--Antonio
Galli--Marco Montano--Bernardo Tasso 278

CHAPTER LI

Torquato Tasso--His insanity--Theories of Dr. Verga and
Mr. Wilde--His connection with Urbino--His intercourse with
the Princess of Este--His portraits--His letter to the Duke
of Urbino--His confinement--His death--His poetry--Battista
Guarini 308

CHAPTER LII

The decline of Italian art: its causes and results--Artists
of Urbino--Girolamo della Genga and his son Bartolomeo--Other
architects and engineers 335

CHAPTER LIII

Taddeo Zuccaro--Federigo Zuccaro--Their pupils--Federigo
Baroccio and his pupils--Claudio Ridolfi--Painters of Gubbio 355

CHAPTER LIV

Foreign artists patronised by the Dukes della Rovere--The
tomb of Julius II. by Michael Angelo--Character and
influence of his genius--Titian's works for Urbino--Palma
Giovane--Il Semolei--Sculptors at Urbino 381