But this design having taken no effect, because of the dispute, that rise between the _French_ and the _Spaniard_, about the dividing of the Kingdom of _Naples_, which at last ended in the utter ruine of the _French_, the _Spaniards_ remaining Masters of the whole Kingdom; the Pope thought it was easier for him to compass his ends, and establish the Grandeur of his Bastards by great and powerful Alliances. From hence proceeded, that having promised his daughter _Lucretia_, while he was Cardinal, to a certain _Spaniard_; as soon as he was Pope, he took her away from him, and bestow’d her in marriage upon _John Sforza_, Lord of _Pesaro_, with whom being also fallen out, he took her away from him, and bestowed her upon _Lewis_ of _Arragon_, natural son to King _Alfonse_; joyning thus two bastards, that they might not reproach one another: And he likewise dying some months after his marriage, he gave her to _Alfonse d’Este_, Duke of _Ferrare_, with whom she lived and dyed. ’Twas in the pomp of her Wedding, that the Pope caused to be celebrated in _Rome_, Turnaments and Tiltings, together with the representation of a hunting Match; and many say, that in the Ball and Dances the Pope danced every night, masked, with some of his intimate Friends. Of his sons, he made _Godfrey_, the youngest Prince of _Squillace_, a City in _Ulterior Calabria_, and the Country of Saint _Cassiodorus_: He made _Cesar_, who was the second, Cardinal; and his eldest, named _John_, was by the great entreaties and instances of the Pope, made Duke of _Candia_ in_ Spain_, much against the inclination of the Catholick King; for this _John_ he procured in marriage a bastard daughter of _Alfonse_, King of _Naples_; and thus he filled the _Vatican_ with bastards, whereupon _Pasquin_, with a great deal of reason, call’d it, _Il Bastardismo_. _Cesar_, his second son, being troubled to see his brother _John_ above him, and more beloved by his Father, resolved to take him out of the way; so one night, as _John_ was going in _Rome_ about some business, he caused him to be set upon by some of his Confidents, who having stabb’d him, cast him half alive headlong into the _Tyber_; and the same evening (a barbarous action) they had supped together, very brotherly, at their Mother _Vanoccias_ house. The Pope, who was afraid of incurring the same danger from his son, whose temper he knew to be wicked enough for such an undertaking, was forced to dissemble this inhumane action of the Cardinal, and to make no pursuits nor informations about the death of his eldest son.