Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 44235-h.htm or 44235-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44235/44235-h/44235-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44235/44235-h.zip) Project Gutenberg has the other two volumes of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42560 Volume III (including the index): see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50577 Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/memoirsofdukeso02dennuoft 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, variants of Michelangelo's last name have been changed to Buonarroti. Archaic spellings in English and Italian have been retained as they appear in the original. The original contains several letters with non-standard tildes. These are represented in brackets, e.g., [~v]. 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 TWO [Illustration] London John Lane The Bodley Head New York John Lane Company MCMIX William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Printers, Plymouth [Illustration: _Alinari_ ELISABETTA DI MONTEFELTRO, DUCHESS OF URBINO _After the picture by Andrea Mantegna in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence_] CONTENTS PAGE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF VOLUME II. ix CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. xi BOOK THIRD (_continued_) OF GUIDOBALDO DI MONTEFELTRO, THIRD DUKE OF URBINO CHAPTER XIX The massacre of Sinigaglia--Death of Alexander VI.--Narrow escape of Cesare Borgia 3 CHAPTER XX Duke Guidobaldo restored--The Election of Julius II.--The fall of Cesare Borgia--The Duke's fortunate position--Is made Knight of the Garter--The Pope visits Urbino 23 CHAPTER XXI The Court of Urbino, its manners and its stars 43 CHAPTER XXII Emilia Pia--The _Cortegiano_--Death of Duke Guidobaldo, succeeded by Francesco Maria della Rovere 72 BOOK FOURTH OF LITERATURE AND ART UNDER THE DUKES DI MONTEFELTRO AT URBINO CHAPTER XXIII