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This Oliverotto Eufreducci hereafter known as Oliverotto da Fermo was a nephew of Giovanni Fogliano, Lord of Fermo. He had returned home to his uncle's Court in the early part of that year, and was there received with great honour and affection by Fogliano and his other relatives.
He had Vitellozzo and Oliverotto strangled forthwith; the Orsini Paolo, father-in-law of Girolama Borgia, and Francesco, Duke of Gravina, who had once been mentioned as a possible husband for Lucretia suffered the same fate January 18, 1503. The Duke of Ferrara congratulated Cæsar, as did also the Gonzaga.
What has become of the race of Faustinas, Marozias, Bianca Cappellos? Were it only possible to meet a woman of that extreme distinction of beauty, of that terribleness of nature, even if only potential, I do believe I could love her, even to the Day of Judgment, like any Oliverotto da Narni, or Frangipani or Prinzivalle. Oct. 27th. Fine sentiments the above are for a professor, a learned man!
And Oliverotto, having taken this advice, came before the duke, who, when he saw him, called to him; and Oliverotto, having made his obeisance, joined the others.
Therefore Don Michele rode off and joined Oliverotto, telling him that it was not right to keep his men out of their quarters, because these might be taken up by the men of the duke; and he advised him to send them at once to their quarters and to come himself to meet the duke.
Here were Francesco Orsini, Duke of Gravina, with Paolo and the latter's son Fabio; here was Oliverotto, the ruffianly Lord of Fermo, who had won his lordship by the cold-blooded murder of his kinsman, and concerning whom a rumour ran in Rome that Cesare had sworn to choke him with his own hands; and here was Vitellozzo Vitelli, the arch-traitor of them all.
Caesar's plans with regard to Florence were now no longer a mystery: since the month of January he had sent to Pisa ten or twelve hundred men under the Command of Regniero della Sassetta and Piero di Gamba Corti, and as soon as the conquest of the Romagna was complete, he had further despatched Oliverotto di Fermo with new detachments.
The Sincerity of Machiavelli in this Essay Machiavellism His deliberate Formulation of a cynical political Theory Analysis of the Prince Nine Conditions of Principalities The Interest of the Conqueror acknowledged as the sole Motive of his Policy Critique of Louis XII. Feudal Monarchy and Oriental Despotism Three Ways of subduing a free City Example of Pisa Principalities founded by Adventurers Moses, Romulus, Cyrus, Theseus Savonarola Francesco Sforza Cesare Borgia Machiavelli's personal Relation to him Machiavelli's Admiration of Cesare's Genius A Sketch of Cesare's Career Concerning those who have attained to Sovereignty by Crimes Oliverotto da Fermo The Uses of Cruelty Messer Ramiro d' Orco The pessimistic Morality of Machiavelli On the Faith of Princes Alexander VI. The Policy of seeming virtuous and honest Absence of chivalrous Feeling in Italy The Military System of a powerful Prince Criticism of Mercenaries and Auxiliaries Necessity of National Militia The Art of War Patriotic Conclusion of the Treatise Machiavelli and Savonarola.
Oliverotto, persuaded, gave the order for the dismissal of his troops, and the duke, coming up at that moment, called to him. In response he went to greet him, and fell in thereafter with the others who were riding with Valentinois.
Against him Cesare now dispatched an army under the command of Francesco Orsini, Duke of Gravina, and Oliverotto Eufreducci, another murderous, bloody gentleman who had hitherto served the duke in Vitelli's condotta, and who, by an atrocious act of infamy and brigandage, had made himself Lord of Fermo, which he pretended being as sly as he was bloody to hold as Vicar for the Holy See.
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