_ 419 _ In the same year (1560) Lorenzo Perez de Tavora, the Ambassador in Rome, sent a letter to D. Sebastiao, Rome, on the 13th of October 1560, stating that Ba Yazid, the son of the Turkish Sultan was on the borders of Turkey with a great army:(47) Sir, In most of the letters I sent in recent days, I have written that the Pope had decided to go to Bologna. He was to set on this that he had ordered all necessary preparations for the journey to be made. As people in Italy deal in nothing but speculation, they began to try to guess the cause of this journey, and not finding any need or urgent obligation for him to arrange to spend a lot of money at a time when pretexts were being found, on his part, to acquire it in order to aggrandize the family of his nephews, those given to speculation suspected (47) Document no. and reference.
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