There was much division between citizens and councillors; envy and distrust between the different professions. At the end of the battle they found that they had the worst of it, for, as they were naked, we always made great slaughter. He could not nominate the prelate whom he wished, but he had it in his power to exclude anyone whom he disliked. The old Pope loved him, "showing him," says Condivi, "attentions he showed no other of those who approached him. They immediately melted the gold, and, having separated a fifth for the King, began to divide it among themselves; this division begat a dispute that gave occasion to threats and violence, which being observed by the Indian, he suddenly overthrew the scales in which they were weighing the precious metal, exclaiming: "Why quarrel for such a trifle? The Parma Brigade, for example, will contain only a few men from Parma, and them by chance. That evening, during a short break in the firing, he asked me, since he himself could not leave the Command Post, to go round and "buck the men up" and thank them on his behalf for the way in which they had behaved.
I found Bixio rallying some Infantrymen, with eloquent words and great gestures, and an Italian Infantry Major, calm and smiling, was putting out a screen of machine gunners and riflemen across the road itself and along a hedge five hundred yards to the north of it.