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Giacomo was relegated to honorable exile in Ancona.
But he suffered so severely from this rebuff, that terms of accommodation were agreed on.
Giacomo received a lady of the Sforza family in marriage, and was established at the Papal Court with a revenue amounting to about 25,000 crowns.[68] The ecclesiastical party now predominant in Rome, took care that he should not acquire more than honorary importance in the government.
Two of the Pope's nephews were promoted to the Cardinalate with provisions of about 10,000 crowns apiece.
His old brother abode in retirement at Bologna under strict orders not to seek fortune or to perplex the Papal purity of rule in Rome.[69] [Footnote 67: The Venetians, when they inscribed his name upon the Libro d'Oro, called him 'a near relative of his Holiness.'] [Footnote 68: This lady was a sister of the Count of Santa Fiora.
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