Of these the Master of Ceremonies collected upwards of a score, which he gives in his Diarium.

Let one suffice here as a fair example of the rest, the one that has it that the earth has the cardinal's body, the bull (i.e.the Borgia) his wealth, and hell his soul.
"Hac Janus Baptista jacet Ferrarius urna, Terra habuit corpus, Bos bona, Styx animam." The only absolutely contemporary suggestion of his having been poisoned emanated from the pen of that same Giustiniani.

He wrote to the Venetian Senate to announce the cardinal's death on July 20.

In his letter he relates how his benefices were immediately distributed, and how the lion's share fell to the cardinal's secretary, Sebastiano Pinzone, and that it was said ("e fama") that this man had received them as the price of blood ("in premium sanguinis"), "since it is held, from many evident signs, that the cardinal died from poison" ("ex veneno").
Already on the 11th he had written: "The Cardinal of Modena lies ill, with little hope of recovery.

Poison is suspected" ("si dubita di veleno").
That was penned on the eighth day of the cardinal's sickness, for he was taken ill on the 3rd--as Burchard shows.