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Her firstborn was baptized with great pomp November 11th in the Sistine Chapel not the chapel now known by that name, but the one which Sixtus IV had built in S. Peter's. Giovanni Cervillon held the child in his arms, and near by were the Governor of Rome and a representative of the Emperor Maximilian.
It appears, however, that the diaries of the masters of ceremony were not subjected to official censorship. Cæsar would have spared him no more than he did his father's favorite, Pedro Calderon Perotto, whom he stabbed, and Cervillon, whom he had killed both of whom frequently performed important parts in the ceremonies in the Vatican.
In obedience to an old custom a naked sword was held over the pair by a knight, a ceremony which in this instance was performed by Giovanni Cervillon, captain of the papal guard. Zacconi, Hist. di Pesaro, Ms. in the Bibl. Oliveriana; also Pietro Marzetti. Letters in the Gonzaga archives in Mantua. Battista Almerici I, and Pietro Marzetti, Memorie di Pesaro, Ms. in the Oliveriana.
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