[Footnote *71: Cf. a letter from Angelo Colocci to the Duke, printed by MORICI, _Due Umanisti Marchigiani_ in _Boll. per l'Umbria_, vol. II., p. 152; and for Music, ROSSI, _Appunti per la Storia della Musica alla Corte di Francesco Maria I. e di Guidobaldo della Rovere_ in _Rassegna Emiliana_ (Modena, 1888), vol. I., fascicolo 8, and _supra_, p. 88, note *1.] [Footnote *72: Cf. CELLI, _Le fortificazioni militari di Urbino, Pesaro e Senigallia_ (Castelpiano, 1896).] [Footnote 73: "Tal sia di loro," a phrase which may perhaps only mean "be it so."] In absence of any contemporary estimate of this Duke's character, we may cite one from the pen of a modern writer, himself a citizen of Urbino, and an enthusiastic student of its history. "Although possessing not the marvellous sagacity, the untainted justice, the quick intelligence in public affairs, nor the other brilliant and rare virtues of his ancestors and of his son, which have rendered their names great, their authority respected, their memory dear and popular; he had good sense, military experience, and much fondness for all liberal acquirements. He protected and honoured the first geniuses of his time; and his beneficent actions were splendid even beyond his means. Could one page be blotted from his life, too fatally memorable from its unjust and slippery policy, too detestable and disgraceful to his name; and had his manners been more affable, his nature less impetuous and violent, his temper less overbearing, and his resolutions less inflexible; the people of Urbino would probably have attempted no revolutionary movement, and he would have acquired much of the reputation left by his great-grandfather, and by his estimable son."[74] [Footnote 74: Padre Checcucci, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Urbino, 1845.] For the fine arts he seems to have cared little, and his memory has suffered in consequence of this neglect. Angelo Bronzino is said to have painted him during the life of his father, but the only original portrait I have ever found of him is a miniature in the Pitti Palace. Bernardo Tasso was the laureate of his court, and we shall mention, in chapter L., the friendly welcome extended to that fortune-stricken bard during part of his life-long struggle. Bernardo Capello and Pietro Aretino were among his guests; and Ludovico Domenichini of Piacenza, having dedicated to him an Italian translation of Plutarch's _Lives_, visited Urbino in 1555 to present the work to his patron. Guidobaldo left by his first wife one daughter,-- VIRGINIA, married in 1560 to Count Federigo Borromeo, whose premature death is said to have frustrated a project of his uncle, Pius IV., for investing him with Camerino. She afterwards married Ferdinando Orsini, Duke of Gravina, and, dying in childbed, left to her father about 180,000 scudi. The children of his second marriage were,-- 1. FRANCESCO MARIA, his heir.