feet, dragged it down from the horse and cast it with all their strength into the river. To the question of the rider if it was safely in; they answered, "Yes, Sir." Then the one sitting on the horse cast another look at the river, and seeing the cloak of the corpse floating in the river and asked his companions what was the black thing that was floating there? They said, "The Cloak"; thereupon he threw stones at the garment to make it sink to the bottom. Then all five of them, including the other two who had kept watch, and now rejoined the rider and his two companions, departed and took their way together through another lane that leads to the Hospital of St. James." When asked why he had not reported the murder the man replied:"In my day I have seen as many as a hundred corpses thrown into the river at that place on different nights without anyone troubling himself about it, and so I attached no importance about it ." Fishermen and boatmen were summoned to drag the river; on June 16 Giovanni's body was recovered from the Tiber, "Just before Vespers when they found the Duke still fully clad, with his stockings, shoes, waistcoat and cloak, and in his belt there was his purse with 30 ducats. He had nine wounds, one in the neck through the throat, the other eight in the head, body and legs...." To the immense grief of the pope, this act occasioned the epigram by Sannazzaro on the pope as "fisher of men." Borgia's only attendant was also slain, so there were no known witnesses. His grief-stricken father launched an intensive investigation into the murder, only to end it abruptly a week later. While the Orsini family had ample motive to kill Giovanni, it was later rumoured that his younger brother Gioffre Borgia murdered him due to Giovanni's relationship with Gioffre's wife, Sancha. However, most suspicions at the time centered on Giovanni's other brother, Cesare Borgia. A personal rivalry existed between the two brothers and, with Giovanni's death, Cesare was finally allowed to leave the Church as he wished, taking his dead brother's place as a man-at-arms. Giovanni's wife was also convinced of Cesare's guilt and tried, in vain, to have her brother-in-law tried. To date, although the historical consensus generally indicates the Orsinis as the culprits, the perpetrator of