CHAPTER 17
The deployment of the forces put in field by the Duke Della Rovere, between the month of June and the month of July of the year of the Lord 1522, was in fact much higher than necessary. The militia led by Andrea Franciolini, consisting of three thousand infantrymen and five hundred horsemen, all men from Senigallia and the surrounding area, loyal to the Duke Della Rovere, had moved from Mondavio towards Pergola, had reached Cagli and from there had descended the Metauro river to the suggestive Furlo Gorge. From here, with a fatiguing march on not very easy mountain paths, they had arrived by surprise under the walls of Urbino, preparing to put them under siege. Andrea, at the head of his men, proudly showed from his horse the flag of Della Rovere. Something that only a couple o
