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FINAL RUIN OF LODOVICO
already sealed, and when, on the 10th of April, he
was given up to the French general Trivulzio, it was
Giovanni Gonzaga who rode alone, as fast as his
horse could bear him, to bring the news to Mantua?
Then Isabella knew that Lodovico’s ruin was com-
plete and irrevocable. All her efforts were now
directed to conciliate the French victors, and to
recover the favour of King Louis, who complained
of Francesco’s disloyalty to his ally in sending his
brother to fight against him, and in receiving the
Sforza partisans at Mantua. She herself was openly
denounced by the French circles at Milan as an
inveterate Sforzesca, and it needed all the influence
of her father and brothers to prevent an open
breach. By the exercise of her wonted tact and
diplomacy the Marchesa, however, succeeded in
averting the threatened rupture, and both she and
her husband eventually regained the good graces of
the French monarch.
1 Muratori, xxiv. 386.
FINAL RUIN OF LODOVICO
already sealed, and when, on the 10th of April, he
was given up to the French general Trivulzio, it was
Giovanni Gonzaga who rode alone, as fast as his
horse could bear him, to bring the news to Mantua?
Then Isabella knew that Lodovico’s ruin was com-
plete and irrevocable. All her efforts were now
directed to conciliate the French victors, and to
recover the favour of King Louis, who complained
of Francesco’s disloyalty to his ally in sending his
brother to fight against him, and in receiving the
Sforza partisans at Mantua. She herself was openly
denounced by the French circles at Milan as an
inveterate Sforzesca, and it needed all the influence
of her father and brothers to prevent an open
breach. By the exercise of her wonted tact and
diplomacy the Marchesa, however, succeeded in
averting the threatened rupture, and both she and
her husband eventually regained the good graces of
the French monarch.
1 Muratori, xxiv. 386.