Rome, was frequently wet and cold.

Not until the seventh day did they reach Foligno. As the report which
the Ferrarese ambassadors sent their lord from that place contains a
vivid description of the journey, we quote it at length:

ILLUSTRIOUS AND HONORED MASTER: Although we wrote your
Excellency from Narni that we would travel from Terni to Spoleto,
and from Spoleto to this place without stopping, the illustrious
Duchess and her ladies were so fatigued that she decided to rest a
day in Spoleto and another in Foligno. We, therefore, shall not
leave here until to-morrow morning, and shall not arrive at Urbino
before next Tuesday, that is the eighteenth of the current month,
for to-morrow we shall reach Nocera, Saturday Gualdo, Sunday
Gubbio, Monday Cagli, and Tuesday Urbino, where we shall rest
another day, that is Wednesday. On the twentieth we shall set out
for Pesaro, and so on from city to city, as we have already written
your Excellency.

We feel certain, however, that the duchess will stop frequently to
rest, consequently we shall not reach Ferrara before the last of
the present or the first of next month, and perhaps not until the
second or third. We therefore thought it well to write your
Excellency from here, letting you know where we were and where we
expected to be, so that you might arrange matters as you thought
best. If you wish us not to arrive in Ferrara until the second or
third, it would not be difficult so to arrange it; but if you think
it would be better for us to reach the city the last of this month
or the first of February, write us to that effect, and we will
endeavor, as we have hitherto done, to shorten the periods of rest.

I mention this because the illustrious Donna Lucretia is of a
delicate constitution and, like her ladies, is unaccustomed to the
saddle, and because we notice that she does not wish to be worn out
when she reaches Ferrara.

In all the cities through which her Majesty passes she is received
with every show of affection and with great honors, and presented
with numerous gifts by the women. Everything is done for her
comfort. She was welcomed everywhere and, as she was formerly ruler
of Spoleto, she was well known to the people. Her reception here in
Foligno was more cordial and accompanied by greater manifest