In the ninth year of our pontificate.
HADRIANUS.
Catarina Sforza died in a convent in Florence in 1509.

In her fatherland she left a son of the same mettle as herself, Giovanni Medici, the last of the great condottieri of the country, who became famous as leader of the Black Bands.

There is a seated figure in marble of this captain, of herculean strength, with the neck of a centaur, near the church of S.
Lorenzo in Florence.
FOOTNOTES: [74] In the Gonzaga archives.
[75] In questa mattina ho hauto lo adviso de la morte del Rmo Card.
Borgia _mio fratre_ passato de questa vita in Urbino.

Forli, January 16, 1500.

Archives of Modena.
[76] A.1500, Jan.