By her second husband, Gian-Francesco Franciotti Lucca,
a merchant in Rome, who was her junior by eleven years,
Luchina had--
4. GALEOTTO, Cardinal of S. Pietro in Vinculis,
and Archbishop of Benevento, who died in 1508, aged
twenty-eight. In 1505 he was appointed to the Cancelleria,
and his public revenues, amounting to 40,000 ducats a year,
were liberally administered in the patronage of letters.
5. NICOLÒ, who left a son Giulio.
6. LUCREZIA, wife of Marc Antonio Colonna, who
fell at the siege of Milan, in 1522.[209]
[Footnote 209: Cristoforo and Domenico della Rovere, brothers, and
successively cardinals of San Vitale, were of the Vinovo family.
The former has a tomb in the Church del Popolo, the latter was
distinguished for his intelligent patronage of art. I have failed
to affiliate Clemente, Bishop of Mende, surnamed _il Grasso_, made
cardinal 1503, and died next year; and Stefano, who was nephew of
Julius II., and had a son, Gian Francesco, Archbishop of Turin, who
died in 1517.]
GIOVANNI DELLA ROVERE, Prefect of Rome and Seigneur of
Sinigaglia, died in 1501, having married in 1474 Giovanna di
Montefeltro, who, dying in 1514, had issue--
1. FEDERIGO, who died young.
2. FRANCESCO MARIA, who, as Duke of Urbino, will occupy attention in
our next Book.
3. MARIA, married in 1497 to Venanzio Varana, Lord of Camerino, who
was slain in 1503, with three of his sons, by order of Cesare Borgia.
Another son, Sigismondo, shared the campaigns of his maternal uncle
the Duke of Urbino, and failing to recover his patrimonial state from
the usurpation of his uncle Giulio Cesare Varana, was assassinated
at his instigation in 1522: his wife was Ottavia, daughter of Giulio
Colonna. A scandalous intrigue of Maria in her widowhood will be
mentioned in the life of her brother,[210] but it did not prevent her
finding a second husband in Galeazzo, son of Girolamo Riario, Lord of
Forlì.
4. COSTANZA, who died unmarried at Rome in November, 1507.
5. DEODATA, a nun of Sta. Chiara at Urbino.
[Footnote 210: See below, ch. xxxii.]
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