Faenza. A great tumult arose as
soon as the murder was known, the widow, with an infant son, fled into
the fortress, the people took up arms, Giovanni Bentivogli, with a
condottiere of the duke of Milan, named Bergamino, engaged for the
occasion, entered Faenza with a considerable force, and Antonio Boscoli,
the Florentine commissary, was also there. These leaders being together,
and discoursing of the government of the place, the men of Val di
Lamona, who had risen unanimously upon learning what had occurred,
attacked Giovanni and Bergamino, the latter of whom they slew, made the
former prisoner, and raising the cry of "Astorre and the Florentines,"
offered the city to the commissary. These events being known at
Florence, gave general offense; however, they set Giovanni and his
daughter at liberty, and by the universal desire of the people, took
the city and Astorre under their protection. Besides these, after
the principal differences of the greater powers were composed, during
several years tumults prevailed in Romagna, the Marca, and Sienna,
which, as they are unimportant, it will be needless to recount. When
the duke of Calabria, after the war of 1478, had left the country, the
distractions of Sienna became more frequent, and after many changes, in
which, first the plebeians, and then the nobility, were victorious, the
latter and length maintained the superiority, and among them Pandolfo
and Jacopo Petrucci obtained the greatest influence, so that the former
being distinguished for prudence and the latter for resolution, they
became almost princes in the city.

The Florentines after the war of Serezana, lived in great prosperity
until 1492, when Lorenzo de' Medici died; for he having put a stop to
the internal wars of Italy, and by his wisdom and authority established
peace, turned his thoughts to the advancement of his own and the city's
interests, and married Piero, his eldest son, to Alfonsina, daughter of
the Cavaliere Orsino. He caused Giovanni, his second son, to be raised
to the dignity of cardinal. This was the more remarkable from its being
unprecedented; for he was only fourteen years of age when admitted to
the college; and became the medium by which his family attained to the
highest earthly glory. He was unable to make any particular provision
for Guiliano, his third son, on account of his tender years, and
the shortness of his own life. Of his daughters, one married Jacopo
Salviati; another, Francesc