The friends were unable to make their escape; Visconti and Lampugnani were killed on the spot; Olgiati was seized, tortured, and torn to death.
[1] Allegretto Allegretti, Diari Sanesi, in Muratori, xxiii.p.

777, and Corio, p.

425, should be read for the details of his pleasures.
See too his character by Machiavelli, 1st.Fior.lib.7, vol.ii.

p.
316.

Yet Giovio calls him a just and firm ruler, stained only with the vice of unbridled sensuality.
[2] The study of the classics, especially of Plutarch, at this time, as also during the French Revolution, fired the imagination of patriots.