Two days later Cesare's army took the road, and he himself went with his horse by way of Piacenza, whilst the foot, under the Bailie of Dijon, having obtained leave of passage through the territories of Ferrara and Cremona, followed the Po down to Argenta.
Thus did Cesare Borgia--personally attended by a caesarian guard, wearing his livery--set out upon the conquest of the Romagna.

Perhaps at no period of his career is he more remarkable than at this moment.

To all trades men serve apprenticeships, and to none is the apprenticeship more gradual and arduous than to the trade of arms.

Yet Cesare Borgia served none.

Like Minerva, springing full-grown and armed into existence, so Cesare sprang to generalship in the hour that saw him made a soldier.