Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 50577-h.htm or 50577-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50577/50577-h/50577-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50577/50577-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/memoirsofdukesof03dennuoft Project Gutenberg has the other two volumes of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42560 Volume II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44235 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. Certain spelling inconsistencies have been made consistent; for example, variants of Michelangelo's last name have been changed to Buonarroti. 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 THREE [Illustration] London John Lane The Bodley Head New York John Lane Company MCMIX William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Printers, Plymouth [Illustration: _Anderson_ FRANCESCO MARIA II. DELLA ROVERE, DUKE OF URBINO _After the picture by Baroccio in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence_] CONTENTS BOOK SIXTH (_Continued_) OF FRANCESCO MARIA DELLA ROVERE, FOURTH DUKE OF URBINO PAGE CHAPTER XXXIX Causes which led to the sack of Rome--The assault--Death of Bourbon--Atrocities of his soldiery--The Duke of Urbino's fatal delays--The Pontiff's capitulation and escape--Policy of the Emperor 3 CHAPTER XL The Duke's mischievous Policy--New league against Charles V.--A French army reaches Naples--The Duke's campaign in Lombardy--Peace restored--Siege of Florence--Coronation of the Emperor at Bologna--The independence of Italy finally lost--Leonora Duchess of Urbino--The Duke's Military Discourses 34 CHAPTER XLI Italian Militia--The Camerino disputes--Death of Clement VII.--Marriage of Prince Guidobaldo--Proposed Turkish crusade under the Duke--His death and character 60 BOOK SEVENTH OF GUIDOBALDO DELLA ROVERE, FIFTH DUKE OF URBINO CHAPTER XLII