But Giovanni, with all semblance of friendliness, treacherously lured him back to cast him into prison and have him strangled--a little matter which those who, to the detriment of the Borgia, seek to make a hero of this Giovanni Sforza, would do well not to suppress.
A proof of the splendid discipline prevailing in Cesare's army is afforded during his brief sojourn in Pesaro.

In the town itself, some two thousand of his troops were accommodated, whilst some thousands more swarmed in the surrounding country.

Occupation by such an army was, naturally enough, cause for deep anxiety on the part of a people who were but too well acquainted with the ways of the fifteenth-century men-at-arms.

But here was a general who knew how to curb and control his soldiers.

Under the pain of death his men were forbidden from indulging any of the predations or violences usual to their kind; and, as a consequence, the inhabitants of Pesaro had little to complain of.
Justolo gives us a picture of the Duke of Valentinois on the banks of the River Montone, which again throws into relief the discipline which his very presence--such was the force of his personality--was able to enforce.