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1 Pio Pecchiai,
Palazzo Taverna a Monte Giordano
, Rome, 1963, 20. 2 ‘Del Sacco di Roma, lettera del Cardinale di Como al suo segretario’, in Carlo Milanesi

(ed.),
ll Sacco di Roman del MDXXVII
, Florence,
1867
,
478
–
9
.
3
Ibid.,
483
–
4
.
4
Ibid.,
479
.
5
Marino Sanuto,
I diarii di Marino Sanuto (1496–1533)
, Venice,
1879
–
1903
,
xxxxv
,
45
,
191
.
6
Milanesi,
480
–
81
.

4 Escape from Rome

1 Marino Sanuto,
I diarii di Marino Sanuto (1496–1533)
, Venice, 1879–1903, xxxxv, 45, 208. 2 Ibid., xxxxiv, 277.

5 Fossombrone

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 355. 2 ASF,
Ducato di Urbino, Classe Prima
, 108, 8, 2–4. 3 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 334. 4 Ibid., 335. 5 Ibid., 342. 6 ASF,
Ducato di Urbino, Classe Prima
, 108, 8, 5. 7 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 341. 8 Sabine Eiche (ed.),
Ordine et officij de casa de lo illustrissimo Signor Duca de Urbino
, Urbino, 1999,

68–9.

9 Sabine Eiche, ‘Fossombrone, Part i: Unknown Drawings and Documents for the
Corte
of Leonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino and her Son, Giulio della Rovere’, in
Studi di Storia dell’Arte
, 2, 1991, 103–28.

6 The Exiled

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 336. 2 Ibid., 377. 3 Ibid., 373. 4 Ibid., 334. 5 Alessandro Luzio,
Isabella d’Este ed Il Sacco di Roma
,1908, 90. 6 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 415. 7 ASM,
Archivio Gonzaga
, 2999, 47, 18. 8 Ibid., 19 and 27. 9 Ibid., 31.

10 Ibid., 2996, 876, 540. 11 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 431. 12 Ibid., 507.

7 The Return to Rome

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 489. 2 Ibid., 96, 35. 3 Ibid., ii, 777. 4 Ibid., i, 400, 285. 5 Melissa Meriam Bullard, ‘Grain Supply and Urban Unrest in Renaissance Rome: The Crisis

of
1533
–
1534
’, in P. A. Ramsey (ed.),
Rome in the Renaissance; The City and The Myth
, Binghampton, NY,
279
–
92
.
6
ASC,
Archivio Orsini
,
ii
,
777
,
13
v.

8 Rebuilding

1 Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects
, translated by Gaston de Vere, edited

by David Ekserdjian, New York,
1996
,
iv
,
601
.
2
ASC,
Archivio Orsini
,
ii
,
777
,
13
r.
3
Ibid.,
i
,
95
,
502
.

9 At the Trinity

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 453. 2 Ibid., ii, 777, 4–11. 3 Ibid., i, 96, 231.

10 A Memorial to the Past

1 Kenneth Gouwens,
Remembering the Renaissance; Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome
, Leiden,

1998, 91. 2 P. Barocchi and R. Ristori (eds.),
Il carteggio di Michelangelo
, Florence, 1965–83, iii, 356. 3 First proposed by Armando Schiavo in his essay in
L’Urbe
. 4 Charles de Tolnay,
The Tomb of Julius II
, Princeton, 1954, 72.

11 Clarice

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 95, 93. 2 Ibid., 93, 390. 3 Ibid., 147. 4 Ibid., 499. 5 Ibid., 203. 6 Ibid., 96, 98. 7 Ibid., ii, 777, 31r. 8 Ibid., i, 96, 98. 9 See B. Feliciangeli,
Notizie e documenti sulla vita di Caterina Cibo-Varano,
Camerino, 1891, 125

ono, for the correspondence cited between Guidobaldo and his parents, regarding Clarice

Orsini.

10 For a history of Stigliano, see Benito Urago,
Stigliano sotto gli Spagnuoli
, Stigliano, 1964.

11 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 96, 169.

12 The Boys

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 73, 432. 2 Ibid., 96, 190. 3 Ibid., 149. 4 Ibid., 11. 5 Ibid., 95, 254.

13 The War of Vicovaro

1 Marino Sanuto,
I diarii di Marino Sanuto (1496–1533)
, Venice, 1879–1903, lvii, 57, 930. 2 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 672, 503. 3 Ibid., 74, 72. 4 Ibid., 96, 219. 5 Sanuto, lviii, 94. 6 ASF,
Ducato di Urbino, Classe Prima
, 132, 71, 3r. 7 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 96, 206. 8 Ibid., 205. 9 Sanuto, lviii, 44.

10 Ibid., 73, 330. 11 ASF,
Ducato di Urbino, Classe Prima
, 7, 36. 12 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 96, 247. 13 Sanuto, lviii, 258. 14 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, iia, xxiii, i.

14 A Brother’s Revenge

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 73, 499. 2 Christine Shaw,
The Political Role of the Orsini Family in the Papal States, c. 1480–1534
, Ph.D., Oxford, 1983, 209. 3 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 391, 143.

15 Restitution

1 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, i, 96, 355. 2 Ibid., 319. 3 Ibid., 391, 142. 4 Ibid., 56. 5 Ibid., 74, 132. 6 Ibid., 317. 7 Ibid., 479. 8 Ibid., 451. 9 Ibid., 391, 141.

part vi the most loving mother in the world

1 ASC, Archivio Orsini, i, 391, 304. 2 Ibid., 247. 3 Ibid., 400, 289. 4 Ibid., 391, 167. 5 Ibid., 194. 6 Ibid., 147. 7 Ibid., 158. 8 Ibid., 174. 9 Ibid., 207.

41 UCLA Special Collections, 902,
Orsini Archive
, 240, 21.

42 ASC,
Archivio Orsini
, 78, 117.

43 Ibid., 104.

44 Ibid., 371. 45 Ibid., 312.

Epilogue: Felice’s Legacy

1 Recounted in Giuseppe Ceci and Benedetto Croce,
Lode di dame napoletane del decimosesto
, Naples, 1894. 2 Francesco Sansovino,
L’historia di casa Orsini
, Venice, 1565, Book ii, 14v.

List of Illustrations

part i the cardinal’s daughter

3 St Peter’s and the Vatican under construction

9 View of Trastevere in the sixteenth century 11 ‘Infant Girl’, from Christofano Bertelli,
The Ages of Woman
, 1580s 14 Platea Agonalis, now Piazza Navona; No. 7 is Palazzo de Cupis 18 Maarten van Heemskerck, Pantheon, 1530s 24 Maarten van Heemskerck, detail showing re-use of ancient Roman columns 26 View of Rome from Hans Schedel,
Nuremberg Chronicle
, 1493 28 The Aventine Port in Rome, sixteenth century 32 Savona in the 1500s 35 Wedding ceremony from
La Novella di Gualtieri
, 1553

part ii the pope’s daughter

41 Bringing Dinner to Cardinals at Conclave 45 Maarten van Heemskerck, Detail of View of St Peter’s and the Vatican under

construction
51
Maarten van Heemskerck, View of Belvedere,
1530
s
56
Maarten van Heemskerck, View of New Saint Peter’s under construction,
1530
s
61
View of Ponte Sant’ Angelo and Castel Sant’Angelo, sixteenth century
70
Tiber Island in the sixteenth century
73
Caradosso, Portrait Medal of Pope Julius II, obverse, Bramante’s design for New St

Peter’s,
1506 79
The Wedding Bed, Venice,
1540 82
View containing Palazzo Sforza Cesarini (Old Cancelleria) and Monte Giordano

part iii felix of the oak and the bear

89 Map of Bracciano Orsini holdings to the north of Rome, seventeenth century 95 Federico Zuccaro,
View of Bracciano
, 1580s, castle of Bracciano 98 View down the Via Alessandrina to Castel Sant’Angelo

102 Ruins of Baths of Diocletian, sixteenth century

106 ‘Woman Fully Grown’, from Christofano Bertelli,
The Ages of Woman
, 1580s

110 Farm labourers, sixteenth century

113 Medal devised from
Pax Romana
emblem

119 Detail of
Fountain of Youth
frescos, Castle of Bracciano, fifteenth century

122 Maarten van Heemskerck, Borgo and St Peter’s Square, 1530s

125 Detail of Sappho from Raphael’s
Parnassus,
Stanze, Vatican Palace 131 I. J. Boissard, engraving of
Sleeping Nymph
in garden of Angelo Colicci 137 Bronzino,
Fall of the Rebel Angels
, early 1530s, Florence, Uffizi

part iv patrona et gubernatrix

147 ‘Motherhood’, from Christofano Bertelli,
The Ages of Woman
, 1580s 150 Valerio Spada,
Woman Feeding a Baby
,
c
.1620 153 Maarten van Heemskerck, detail of steps up to Church of Aracoeli 156
Hunting Scene
, Brescia, mid-sixteenth century 161 Enea Vico,
Industry
, 1540 163 ‘The Matron’, from Christofano Bertelli,
The Ages of Woman
, 1580s 166 Jean Thomas Thibault,
View of Bracciano (
with fountain house below),
c
.1810 169 Giovanni Stradano,
Household Activity
, 1587–89 172 Trinità dei Monti and Felice’s Palace to the right-hand side, sixteenth century 176 Cesare Vecellio,
Roman Widow
, 1590 181 Kitchen Interior, 1540s 186 Antonio Tempesta,
Kitchen and Pantry: January
, 1599 197 Market scene, fifteenth century 202
Pasquino
statue decorated with ‘Pasquinades’ 210 Detail of
Fountain of Youth
frescos, castle of Bracciano, fifteenth century 214 Lucas Cranach,
Pope Descends into Hell
, 1518 218 Pope Hadrian VI, 1521 223 Maarten van Heemskerck,
Detail with Cardinal on a Mule,
1530s

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