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52 MURDER OF CARDINAL ALIDOSI
Gurk paid the Marchesa a visit, when I caused great
amusement by acting as interpreter, and we all
laughed till our sides ached.” That day politics were
not even mentioned. The whole talk was of kissing
and romping, merry songs were sung and witty
sayings repeated, and all manner of gay fooling went
on between the German envoys and Isabella and her
ladies. Unfortunately, when Lang proceeded to
Bologna, the Pope quite refused to listen to the
Emperor’s proposals of peace, and the bishop left
suddenly, with no attempt to conceal his disgust.
Hostilities were immediately resumed, and hardly
had the Pope left Bologna, than Trivulzio surprised
and defeated the Duke of Urbino’s army and seized
the town. On the 23rd of May, the Bentivogli
returned in triumph, Michel Angelo’s bronze statue
of Julius II. was overthrown by the mob, and the
bronze melted down by Alfonso d’Este and cast into
a cannon, which he christened La Giulia. The
next day the papal legate, Cardinal Alidosi, was
openly stabbed in the streets of Ravenna by the
Duke of Urbino, who accused him of treacherously
surrendering Bologna to the foe. A month after-
wards the old Pope returned to Rome, broken in
health and worn out with fatigue and anxieties. His
armies were defeated, his hopes disappointed. Bologna
was lost, and his favourite had been brutally murdered
by his own nephew almost before his eyes. But his
spirit was as high as ever. He checkmated the
revolted Cardinals, who, supported by the Emperor
and Louis XII., had summoned a general council at
Pisa, by himself proclaiming a general council, to
meet at the Lateran in April 1512. And he entered
into negotiations with Spain and Venice to form a
Gurk paid the Marchesa a visit, when I caused great
amusement by acting as interpreter, and we all
laughed till our sides ached.” That day politics were
not even mentioned. The whole talk was of kissing
and romping, merry songs were sung and witty
sayings repeated, and all manner of gay fooling went
on between the German envoys and Isabella and her
ladies. Unfortunately, when Lang proceeded to
Bologna, the Pope quite refused to listen to the
Emperor’s proposals of peace, and the bishop left
suddenly, with no attempt to conceal his disgust.
Hostilities were immediately resumed, and hardly
had the Pope left Bologna, than Trivulzio surprised
and defeated the Duke of Urbino’s army and seized
the town. On the 23rd of May, the Bentivogli
returned in triumph, Michel Angelo’s bronze statue
of Julius II. was overthrown by the mob, and the
bronze melted down by Alfonso d’Este and cast into
a cannon, which he christened La Giulia. The
next day the papal legate, Cardinal Alidosi, was
openly stabbed in the streets of Ravenna by the
Duke of Urbino, who accused him of treacherously
surrendering Bologna to the foe. A month after-
wards the old Pope returned to Rome, broken in
health and worn out with fatigue and anxieties. His
armies were defeated, his hopes disappointed. Bologna
was lost, and his favourite had been brutally murdered
by his own nephew almost before his eyes. But his
spirit was as high as ever. He checkmated the
revolted Cardinals, who, supported by the Emperor
and Louis XII., had summoned a general council at
Pisa, by himself proclaiming a general council, to
meet at the Lateran in April 1512. And he entered
into negotiations with Spain and Venice to form a