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[1] Catherine Sforza, a daughter of Galeazzo Sforza and Lucrezia

Landriani, born 1463, died 1509. It was to the Countess of Forli

that Machiavelli was sent as envoy on 1499. A letter from

Fortunati to the countess announces the appointment: "I have been

with the signori," wrote Fortunati, "to learn whom they would

send and when. They tell me that Nicolo Machiavelli, a learned

young Florentine noble, secretary to my Lords of the Ten, is to

leave with me at once." Cf. "Catherine Sforza," by Count

Pasolini, translated by P. Sylvester, 1898.

CHAPTER XXI. HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN

RENOWN