His wife remained behind.

May 4th he reached Fundi.[43] Alexander's two sons, Don Giovanni and Don Giuffre, were still away from Rome.

One, the Duke of Gandia, was also in the pay of Venice, and was expected from Spain to take command of four hundred men which his lieutenant, Alovisio Bacheto, had enlisted for him.

The other, Don Giuffre, had, as we have seen, gone to Naples in 1494, where he had married Donna Sancia and had been made Prince of Squillace.

As a member of the house of Aragon he shared the dangers of the declining dynasty in the hope of inducing the Pope not to abandon it.