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the pope not wishing to put in at Porto Ferrajo, they remained five days
on board, though they had only two days' provisions. During the last
three days the pope lived on fried fish that were caught under great
difficulties because of the heavy weather. At last they arrived in sight
of Corneto, and there the duke, who was not on the same vessel as the
pope, seeing that his ship could not get in, had a boat put out, and so
was taken ashore. The pope was obliged to continue on his way towards
Pontercole, where at last he arrived, after encountering so violent a
tempest that all who were with him were utterly subdued either by
sickness or by the terror of death. The pope alone did not show one
instant's fear, but remained on the bridge during the storm, sitting on
his arm-chair, invoking the name of Jesus and making the sign of the
cross. At last his ship entered the roads of Pontercole, where he
landed, and after sending to Corneto to fetch horses, he rejoined the
duke, who was there awaiting him. They then returned by slow stages, by
way of Civita Vecchia and Palo, and reached Rome after an absence of a
month. Almost at the same time d'Albret arrived in quest of his
cardinal's hat. He was accompanied by two princes of the house of
Navarre, who were received with not only those honours which beseemed
their rank, but also as brothers-in-law to whom the, duke was eager to
show in what spirit he was contracting this alliance.

CHAPTER XIII

The time had now come for the Duke of Valentinois to continue the pursuit
of his conquests. So, since on the 1st of May in the preceding year the
pope had pronounced sentence of forfeiture in full consistory against
Julius Caesar of Varano, as punishment for the murder of his brother
Rudolph and for the harbouring of the pope's enemies, and he had
accordingly been mulcted of his fief of Camerino, which was to be handed
over to the apostolic chamber, Caesar left Rome to put the sentence in
execution. Consequently, when he arrived on the frontiers of Perugia,
which belonged to his lieutenant, Gian Paolo Baglioni, he sent Oliverotta
da Fermo and Orsini of Gravina to lay waste the March of Camerino, at the
same time petitioning Guido d'Ubaldo di Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to
lend his soldiers and artillery to help him in this enterprise. This the
unlucky Duke of Urbino, who enjoyed the best possible relations with the
pope, and who had no reason for distrusting Caesar, d