Burchard was only aware of two children of Innocent VIII. But Egidio of Viterbo wrote: “Primus pontificum filios filiasque palam ostentauit, primus eorum apertas fecit nuptias.” And there are the Epigrams of Marullo:

         Quid quaeris testes, sit mas an foemina Cibo?
           Respice natorum, pignora certa, gregem.

         Octo Nocens pueros genuit, totidemque puellas,
           Hunc merito poterit decere Roma patrem.

         It is hardly to be believed that these libels have been accepted as actual fact.