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From the negotiations that followed it resulted that, on the 13th, the Orsini had word from Cesare that he had entered into an alliance with the Bentivogli which definitely removed their main objection to bearing arms with him. It was resigning much on Cesare's part, but the treaty, after all, was only for two years, and might, of course, be broken before then, as they understood these matters.
Yet Vitelli's action served Cesare's own purposes, and, so that his purposes were served, there were no other considerations likely to weigh with that cold egotist. Let Vitelli be caught in the toils he was spinning, and be choked in them. Meanwhile, Florence was being harrowed, and that was all to Cesare's satisfaction and advantage.
Similarly, Giovanni addressed fresh appeals to Francesco Gonzaga; but neither of these tyrants could or dared avail him, and, whilst he was still imploring their intervention his fief had fallen into Cesare's power.
Therefore, that they might serve their interests in the end, both king and cardinal served Cesare's in the meantime. The Duke of Valentinois's visit to Milan had served to increase the choler of Vitelli, who accounted that by this action Cesare had put him in disgrace with the King of France; and Vitelli cried out that thus was he repaid for having sought to make Cesare King of Tuscany.
With incredible effrontery and daring he lingered. The morrow was a Sunday, and, on the Tuesday or Wednesday following, Cesare Borgia and his cousin Ignacio were expected. Filippo was in the best of moods, and paid more heed to the Governor of Cesena's presence at Pesaro than he did to mine. It may be that he imagined Ramiro del' Orca to be acting under Cesare's instructions.
And thus it befell that the ashes of Cesare Borgia were scattered and lost. Charlotte d'Albret was bereft of her one friend, Queen Jeanne, in that same year of Cesare's death.
There was, she recognized, something essentially feminine in the saturnine bullfighter; his pride had been severely assaulted; and therefore he would be in his own, less subtle manner as dangerous as Gheta. Cesare's self-esteem, too, had been wounded in its most vulnerable place he had been insulted before her.
Hermes Bentivogli Giovanni's youngest son was on guard at the palace with several other young Bolognese patricians, and he incited these to go with him to make an end of the traitors who had sought to destroy the peace by their alleged plottings with Bentivogli's enemies in Cesare's camp.
In connection with him it is only to be found upon the sword of honour made for him when, while still a cardinal, he went to crown the King of Naples. It is not at all unlikely that the inscription of the device upon that sword which throughout is engraved with illustrations of the career of Julius Caesar may have been the conceit of the sword-maker as a rather obvious play upon Cesare's name.
With the single exception of Camerino, where disturbances still continued, all was quiet in the States of the Church by that summer of 1503. This desirable state of things had been achieved by Cesare's wise and liberal government, which also sufficed to ensure its continuance. He had successfully combated the threatened famine by importing grain from Sicily.
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