Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 42560-h.htm or 42560-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42560/42560-h/42560-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42560/42560-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/memoirsofdukesof01dennuoft Project Gutenberg has the other two volumes of this work. Volume II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44235 Volume III (including the index): see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50577 Transcriber's note: This work was originally published in 1851. As noted below, footnotes marked by an asterisk were added by the editor of the 1909 edition, from which this e-book was prepared. Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Other errors are indicated by a [Transcriber's Note]. Certain spelling inconsistencies have been made consistent; for example, Pietro della Francesca has been changed to Piero della Francesca; Rafaelle to Raffaele; and Pintoricchio to Pinturicchio. Full-page illustrations have been moved so as not to break up the flow of the text. 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 ONE [Illustration] London John Lane The Bodley Head New York John Lane Company MCMIX William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Printers, Plymouth [Illustration: JAMES DENNISTOUN OF DENNISTOUN _From a medallion in the possession of his Nephew, James N. Dennistoun of Dennistoun_] TO EDMUND G. GARDNER IN AFFECTIONATE ADMIRATION THIS NEW EDITION OF A FAMOUS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE EDITOR INTRODUCTION