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ISABELLA GOES TO MILAN
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on horseback to satisfy my anxiety as to your welfare,
begging you to commend me to Signor Lodovico
and the Duchess.—From her who longs to see Your
Highness, Isabella d’Este, with her own hand.”
Francesco explained in a letter from Milan that
he had informed his wife of his intended journey in a
note which never reached her. Now he told her of
the kindly reception which he had received from
Lodovico and Beatrice, and of the honours and atten-
tions with which he was loaded, “ all of which,” wrote
Isabella in reply, “ gave me incredible consolation,
and were no less delightful to me than if I had
been there in person.”1
It was only in the following summer that Isabella
herself was able to accept the Moro’s repeated in-
vitations and pay her long-deferred visit to Milan.
A series of fetes and dramatic representations were
to be given at Pavia in honour of Duke Ercole, and
Francesco Gonzaga wrote from Venice urging his
wife to accompany her father. This, Isabella de-
clared, was absolutely impossible. “ I have received
your letter,” she wrote on the 25th of July, “ and
understand that you wish me to go to Milan.
Certainly that is my own wish also, especially since
I hear the idea gives you pleasure, which is my
sole object in life, so that now I should go there with
the greatest good-will. But it is quite impossible
that I should accompany my father, or even start
soon after him, as I have not the means. Half of
my household are ill, and I must wait till they have
recovered, and Your Highness can choose the gentle-
men who are to accompany me. Meanwhile I will
arrange my affairs so as to be ready to start as soon
1 Luzio e Renier in Arch. St. Lomb., vol. xvii. p. 116.
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on horseback to satisfy my anxiety as to your welfare,
begging you to commend me to Signor Lodovico
and the Duchess.—From her who longs to see Your
Highness, Isabella d’Este, with her own hand.”
Francesco explained in a letter from Milan that
he had informed his wife of his intended journey in a
note which never reached her. Now he told her of
the kindly reception which he had received from
Lodovico and Beatrice, and of the honours and atten-
tions with which he was loaded, “ all of which,” wrote
Isabella in reply, “ gave me incredible consolation,
and were no less delightful to me than if I had
been there in person.”1
It was only in the following summer that Isabella
herself was able to accept the Moro’s repeated in-
vitations and pay her long-deferred visit to Milan.
A series of fetes and dramatic representations were
to be given at Pavia in honour of Duke Ercole, and
Francesco Gonzaga wrote from Venice urging his
wife to accompany her father. This, Isabella de-
clared, was absolutely impossible. “ I have received
your letter,” she wrote on the 25th of July, “ and
understand that you wish me to go to Milan.
Certainly that is my own wish also, especially since
I hear the idea gives you pleasure, which is my
sole object in life, so that now I should go there with
the greatest good-will. But it is quite impossible
that I should accompany my father, or even start
soon after him, as I have not the means. Half of
my household are ill, and I must wait till they have
recovered, and Your Highness can choose the gentle-
men who are to accompany me. Meanwhile I will
arrange my affairs so as to be ready to start as soon
1 Luzio e Renier in Arch. St. Lomb., vol. xvii. p. 116.