This government of yours does not please me, and I cannot trust it; you must change it and give me a pledge that you will observe everything you prom… - Cesare Borgia

However much Rome may be in the habit of speaking and writing, for my own part, I shall give these libellers a lesson in good manners.

Most Illustrious and most Excellent Lady, our very dear Sister,- Confident of the circumstance that there can be no more efficacious and salutary medicine for the indisposition from which you are at present suffering than the announcement of good and happy news, we advise you that at this very moment we have received sure tidings of the capture of Camerino. We beg that you will do honour to this message by an immediate improvement, and inform us of it, because, tormented as we are to know you so ill, nothing, not even this felicitous event, can suffice to afford us pleasure. We beg you also kindly to convey the present to the Illustrious Lord Don Alfonso, your husband and our beloved Brother-in-law, to whom we are not writing to-day.

[I] had not forgotten the way to reconquer it [Urbino].