Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 1 (of 3)

INTRODUCTION

It is surely unnecessary to make any apology for this second edition of the _Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino_. Notwithstanding all that has been done in the last fifty years by historians on the one hand, and by imaginative writers on the other, with the object of elucidating the history of that part of Central Italy which lies within the ancient confines of Umbria, or o...