This malice becomes particularly evident in the indictment of Cesare for the ruin of the Romagna.

Whatever Cesare might have done, he had not done that--his bitterest detractor could not (without deliberately lying) say that the Romagna was other than benefiting under his sway.

That is not a matter of opinion, not a matter of inference or deduction.

It is a matter of absolute fact and irrefutable knowledge.
To return now to the two entries in Burchard's Diarium when considered in conjunction with the Letter to Silvio Savelli (which Burchard quotes in full), it is remarkable that nowhere else in the discovered writings of absolute contemporaries is there the least mention of either of those scandalous stories.

The affair of the stallions, for instance, must have been of a fairly public character.