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"The nuptial benediction was pronounced, and the act of espousals confirmed by the ring which Signor Lodovico placed on the bride's finger, and that night the marriage was consummated," were the words of the official proclamation that was made in Milan the next day, and duly notified to the magistrates of the different cities in the duchy as well as to the duke's ambassadors at foreign courts.
Lodovico, on his part, received the news of Piero's disgraceful concessions with ill-concealed disgust.
The Buonarroti did not take his advice, but remained at Florence, enduring agonies of terror. It was a time when disaffection toward the Medicean princes exposed men to risking life and limb. Rumours reached Lodovico that his son had talked imprudently at Rome.
"Shall we suffer our own blood to be despised?" he is said to have exclaimed, when he called upon his father to avenge his daughter's wrong, and at the same time pointed out how fraught with danger to the realm of Naples was the existence of so powerful and independent a prince as Lodovico.
Both these noblemen were great sonnet-writers, and are classed by Pistoia among those illustrious lords, who, like Messer Galeazzo and Signor Lodovico himself, were poets and writers as well as statesmen and generals. Bramante addressed several of his sonnets to Count Tuttavilla, who in his turn had a lively controversy in rhyme with the Marchesino.
Nevertheless, Milanesi tells us in a note, Lodovico settled with Consiglio, to whom he owed ninety gold florins, in the way Michael Angelo did not approve and after going to law about it. A letter of Lodovico’s refers to the kindness of Michael Angelo in establishing his brothers in the cloth business. It is dated December 19, 1500.
In the course of the year 1494, Lodovico informed Girolamo Tuttavilla, who was at one time treasurer to the duchess, that his wife had won no less than three thousand ducats, all of which she declared had been spent in alms. "When I remarked that this seemed a very large sum, the duchess confessed she had paid some of it to embroiderers and other craftsmen.
The king, we learn from Commines, still retained a friendly feeling for the Duke of Milan, and invited him to a meeting before he left Italy; but Lodovico had taken umbrage at certain offensive remarks made by the Count of Ligny and Cardinal Briconnet, and excused himself on plea of illness, while he declared in private that he would not trust himself in the French king's company unless a river ran between them.
No sooner, however, was Charles installed in Naples than the states of Italy began to combine against him. Lodovico Sforza had availed himself of the general confusion consequent upon the first appearance of the French, to poison his nephew. He was, therefore, now the titular, as well as virtual, Lord of Milan. So far, he had achieved what he desired, and had no further need of Charles.
The duke of Calabria routs the Florentine army at Poggibonzi Dismay in Florence on account of the defeat Progress of the duke of Calabria The Florentines wish for peace Lorenzo de' Medici determines to go to Naples to treat with the king Lodovico Sforza, surnamed the Moor, and his brothers, recalled to Milan Changes in the government of that city in consequence The Genoese take Serezana Lorenzo de' Medici arrives at Naples Peace concluded with the king The pope and the Venetians consent to the peace The Florentines in fear of the duke of Calabria Enterprises of the Turks They take Otranto The Florentines reconciled with the pope Their ambassadors at the papal court The pope's reply to the ambassadors The king of Naples restores to the Florentines all the fortresses he had taken.
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