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Updated: June 17, 2025
Lodovico joins Charles VIII. at Sarzana Suspicious rumours as to the late duke's death Piero de' Medici surrenders the six fortresses of Tuscany to Charles VIII. Lodovico retires in disgust from the camp Congratulations of all the Italian States on his accession Grief of Duchess Isabella Her return to Milan Mission of Maffeo Pirovano to Antwerp His interviews with Maximilian and Bianca Letter of Lodovico to the Bishop of Brixen Charles VIII. enters Rome His treaty with Alexander VI. and departure for Naples.
Accordingly, with Messer Neri's accord, he dowered them magnificently and gave Ginevra the Fair to Messer Maffeo da Palizzi and Isotta the Blonde to Messer Guglielmo della Magna, both noble cavaliers and great barons, to whom with inexpressible chagrin consigning them, he betook himself into Apulia, where with continual fatigues he so mortified the fierceness of his appetite that, having burst and broken the chains of love, he abode free of such passion for the rest of his life.
Jacopo d'Agobbio, knowing the whole conspiracy was directed against himself, in fear of death, terrified and vanquished, kept himself surrounded with forces near the palace of the Signory; but the other rectors, who were much less blamable, discovered greater courage, and especially the podesta or provost, whose name was Maffeo da Marradi.
Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at Asti The Neapolitan fleet sent against Genoa The forces of Naples repulsed at Rapallo Charles VIII. at Asti Beatrice d'Este entertains him at Annona The king's illness His visit to Vigevano and Pavia His interview with the Duke and Duchess of Milan Last illness and death of Giangaleazzo Sforza Lodovico proclaimed Duke at Milan Mission of Maffeo Pirovano to Maximilian.
And when Maffeo left Antwerp early in December to return to Milan, he received a whole string of commissions from her Majesty. He was, in the first place, to visit and condole with her mother, her widowed sister-in-law, and her brother Ermes, and to commend the Duchess Isabella and her children especially to the duke.
This man had a son who lived with him, and who, unfortunately for us, was seized with the plague, which had raged in that part of the country this year. From him one of my servants, named Maffeo of Bergamo, caught the distemper, who still kept about me during two days, though ill, as he was my own particular domestic.
Henceforth Maffeo and Nicolo retire into the background; we catch occasional glimpses of them, shrewd Venetians, unobtrusively putting money in their purses, while the young Marco occupies the center of the stage as royal favorite, member of the Privy Council, or trusted ambassador to every part of the emperor's wide domains.
Maffeo was able to give Lodovico satisfactory assurances as to Maximilian's readiness to confirm him in the investiture of Milan. He promised to send the letters forthwith, but desired the duke to allow no one but his brother Cardinal Ascanio to see a copy, and not to publish them before March.
For three years he was himself governor of the great city of Yangchow, which had twenty-four towns under its jurisdiction, and was full of traders and makers of arms and military accoutrements. He visited Karakorum in Mongolia, the old Tartar capital, and with his Uncle Maffeo spent three years in Tangut.
I expressed myself curious as to his version, and he promised to bring it me in two days' time. I complimented him on belonging to such a noble and ancient family; Maffeo Vigi flourished at the beginning of the fifteenth century. We started in the evening, and less than two hours we got home.
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