sent him,
for the coming carnival, a present of a hundred masks of rare variety
and singular beauty, because she opined that "after the fatigues he had
suffered in these glorious enterprises, he would desire to contrive for
some recreation."

Here in Assisi, too, he received the Siennese envoys who came to wait
upon him, and he demanded that, out of respect for the King of France,
they should drive out Pandolfo Petrucci from Siena. For, to use his
own words, "having deprived his enemies of their weapons, he would now
deprive them of their brain," by which he paid Petrucci the compliment
of accounting him the "brain" of all that had been attempted against
him. To show the Siennese how much he was in earnest, he leaves all
baggage and stores at Assisi, and, unhampered, makes one of his sudden
swoops towards Siena, pausing on January 13 at Castel della Pieve to
publish, at last, his treaty with Bentivogli. The latter being
now sincere, no doubt out of fear of the consequences of further
insincerity, at once sends Cesare 30 lances and 100 arbalisters under
the command of Antonio della Volta.

It was there in Assisi, on the morning of striking his camp again, that
Cesare completed the work that had been begun at Sinigaglia by having
Paolo Orsini and the Duke of Gravina strangled. There was no cause
to delay the matter longer. He had word from Rome of the capture of
Cardinal Orsini, of Gianbattista da Virginio, of Giacomo di Santacroce,
and Rinaldo Orsini, Archbishop of Florence.

On January 27, Pandolfo Petrucci being still in Siena, and Cesare's
patience exhausted, he issued an ultimatum from his camp at Sartiano in
which he declared that if, within twenty-four hours, Petrucci had not
been expelled from the city, he would loose his soldiers upon Siena to
devastate the territory, and would treat every inhabitant "as a Pandolfo
and an enemy."

Siena judged it well to bow before that threatening command, and Cesare,
seeing himself obeyed, was free to depart to Rome, whither the Pope had
recalled him and where work awaited him. He was required to make an end
of the resistance of the barons, a task which had been entrusted to his
brother Giuffredo, but which the latter had been unable to carry out.

In this matter Cesare and his father are said to have violently
disagreed, and it is reported that high words flew between them; for
Cesare--who looked ahead and had his own future to consider, which
should extend beyond the l