He assures the Senate that he has forgiven his wife, believing her to be innocent.

This, however, does not suffice to allay her uneasiness--or her reluctance--for on January 4, 1504, Sanuto tells us that the Senate has received a letter of thanks from her in which she relates her misfortunes, and in which again she begs that her husband be compelled to pledge security to treat her well ("darli buona vita") or else that she should be allowed to return to her mother.

Of the nature of the misfortunes which he tells us she related in her letter, Sanuto says nothing.

That is his second important omission.
The last mention of the subject in Sanuto relates to her restoration to her husband.

He tells us that Caracciolo received her with great joy; but he is silent on the score of the lady's emotions on that occasion.
There you have all that is known of Dorotea Caracciolo's abduction, which later writers--including Bembo in his Historiae--have positively assigned to Cesare Borgia, drawing upon their imagination to fill up the lacunae in the story so as to support their point of view.
Those lacunae, however, are invested with a certain eloquence which it is well not to disregard.