2. GIROLAMO, Lord of Forlì, and, in right of his
wife, Caterina Sforza, sovereign of Imola, whose name is
familiar to those who have followed our narrative, and
who was assassinated in 1488. Among their children were
Ottaviano, dispossessed of his states by Cesare Borgia
in 1500; Orazio, Bishop of Lucca; Galeazzo; and Cesare,
Patriarch of Constantinople. Their line still subsists
in the Riario Sforza of Naples, one of whom was in 1846
Cardinal Camerlingo at Rome.
3. OTTAVIANO, Bishop of Viterbo.
4. A daughter, married to one Sansonio, whose son Raffaele,
made Cardinal of S. Giorgio in 1477, has been mentioned as
an accomplice in the Pazzi conspiracy.
[Footnote 208: Most of these were buried in the church of Sta. Maria
del Popolo, at Rome, where their funeral inscriptions may be found.]
RAFFAELE DELLA ROVERE, younger brother of Sixtus, had, by
Teodora Manerola--
1. BARTOLOMEO, Bishop of Ferrara and Patriarch of Antioch.
2. GIULIANO, who became Pope Julius II., and whose natural children
were--
1. RAFFAELE, who married Niccolosa Fogliano of
Fermo, and was murdered in 1502.
2. FELICE, famed for her beauty and talents, who
married Gian-Giordano Orsini, not Marc Antonio Colonna, as
stated by Roscoe.
3. LEONARDO, created Prefect of Rome in 1472. He died 1475,
leaving no issue by Giovanna, natural daughter of Ferdinand King of
Naples. According to Giannone, she was Catarina, daughter of the
Prince of Rossano, by Dionora, sister of Ferdinand, and she brought
him the duchy of Sora, which descended to his heirs.
4. GIOVANNI, Duke of Sora, Prefect of Rome, and Seigneur of
Sinigaglia, to whom we shall return.
5. LUCHINA, whose children were adopted as of the della
Rovere name. By her first husband Gabriele Gara, a gentleman of
Savona, she had--
1. RAFFAELE.
2. SISTO, Cardinal of S. Pietro in Vinculis, who
died in 1517, aged forty-four. His death is said to have
been occasioned by terror for the menaces of Leo X., who
suspected him of aiding his cousin the Duke of Urbino
in recovering his state, by advancing money out of vast
benefices, estimated at 30,000 to 40,000 ducats a year.
De Grasses describes his frame as exhausted by shameless
debaucheries, and adds, that he could neither read nor
write. The latter assertion is so incredible as to throw
doubt upon the former; yet such an accusation in the diary
of a papal master of ceremonies seems to infer that similar
immoralities were then scarcely regarded as scandalous in
the sacred college. The taint left by Alexander VI. had not
yet been effaced by blood and tears in the sack of Rome.
3. SISTA, whose first husband, Geraud d'Ancezun,
died in 1503, after which she married Galeazzo, son of
Count Girolamo Riario.
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