But for some reason, not obviously apparent, they do not think it worth while to add that the Doge himself--better informed, it is clear, for he speaks with finality in the matter--reproved him by denying the rumour and definitely stating that it was not true, as you may read in the Diary of Marino Sanuto.
That same diary shows you the husband--a person of great consequence in Venice--before the Council, clamouring for the enlargement of his lady; yet never once does he mention the name of Valentinois.

The Council of Ten sends an envoy to wait upon the Pope; and the Pope expresses his profound regret and his esteem for Alviano, and informs the envoy that he is writing to Valentinois to demand her instant release--in fact, shows the envoy the letter.
To that same letter the duke replied on January 29 that he had known nothing of the matter until this communication reached him; that he has since ascertained that the lady was indeed captured and that she has since been detained in the Castle of Todi with all the consideration due to her rank; and that, immediately upon ascertaining this he had commanded that she should be set at liberty, which was done.
And so the Lady Panthasilea returned unharmed to her husband.
In Assisi Cesare received the Florentine ambassador Salviati, who came to congratulate the duke upon the affair of Sinigaglia and to replace Macchiavelli--the latter having been ordered home again.

Congratulations indeed were addressed to him by all those Powers that had received his official intimation of the event.

Amongst these were the felicitations of the beautiful and accomplished Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Gonzaga--whose relations with him were ever of the friendliest, even when Faenza by its bravery evoked her pity--and with these she sent him, for the coming carnival, a present of a hundred masks of rare variety and singular beauty, because she opined that "after the fatigues he had suffered in these glorious enterprises, he would desire to contrive for some recreation." Here in Assisi, too, he received the Siennese envoys who came to wait upon him, and he demanded that, out of respect for the King of France, they should drive out Pandolfo Petrucci from Siena.

For, to use his own words, "having deprived his enemies of their weapons, he would now deprive them of their brain," by which he paid Petrucci the compliment of accounting him the "brain" of all that had been attempted against him.