If it is true that Cesare made this public declaration how does it happen that no one but Capello heard him?
for in all other documents there is no more than offered us a rumour of how Alfonso died.

Surely it is to be supposed that, had Cesare made any such declaration, the letters from the ambassadors would have rung with it.

Yet they will offer you nothing but statements of what is being rumoured! Nor does Gregorovius confine himself to that in his sedulous following of Capello's Relation.

He serves up out of Capello the lying story of the murder of Pedro Caldes.

"What," he says of Cesare, to support his view that Cesare murdered Alfonso of Aragon, "could be beyond this terrible man who had poignarded the Spaniard Pedro Caldes...under the Pope's very cloak, so that his blood spurted up into the Pope's face ?" This in his History of Rome.