We do not know whether Giulia was living in Rome at this time.

We occasionally find her name in the epigrams of the day, and it appears in a satire, _Dialogue between Death and the Pope, sick of a Fever_, in which he called upon Giulia to save him, whereupon Death replied that his mistress had borne him three or four children.

As the satire was written in the summer of 1500, when Alexander was suffering from the fever, it is probable that his relations with Giulia still continued.
Caesar, who had taken Imola, December 1, 1499, was far from pleased when he saw the great estates of the Gaetani, whose revenues he himself could use to good advantage, bestowed upon his sister; and, as he himself wished absolutely to control the will of his father, her growing influence in the Vatican caused him no little annoyance.

He had sinister plans for whose execution the time was soon to prove propitious.
FOOTNOTES: [60] Despatch of Joh.

Lucidus Cataneus, Rome, August 8, 1498.