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BATTLE OF THE GARIGLIANO 263
to table, and 1 supped in the Castello. And before
we had finished, the said Madonna gave birth to a
little girl, and although we greatly desired a boy,
yet we must be content with what is given us.”1
This fourth daughter who was born to Isabella
received the name of Ippolita, and became a nun in
the Dominican convent of S. Vincenzo.
Meanwhile Francesco Gonzaga was conducting
the campaign in the kingdom of Naples under great
difficulties. The French troops under his command
were turbulent and undisciplined, his movements were
impeded by heavy floods, and his plans were foiled by
the superior generalship of the Great Captain, although
he succeeded in crossing the river Garigliano and
relieving Gaeta. At length, heartily sick of the
task, and being unable, in the words of the Venetian
diarist, “ any longer to endure the pride, quarrels, and
disobedience of the French,” he resigned his command
on the plea of illness, and returned to Mantua.2 A
few weeks after his departure, on the 28th of De-
cember, the French were completely defeated in a
battle on the banks of the Garigliano, and Piero dei
Medici, who fought on the French side, was drowned
in the river. The fortress of Gaeta, which Gonsalvo
had long blockaded in vain, now surrendered, and
Naples was lost to France. On the 11th of Feb-
ruary a treaty was signed at Lyons by which
Louis XII. gave up all claim to the kingdom, and
Ferdinand of Aragon remained in undisputed pos-
session of Southern Italy.
Francesco’s return and the restoration of Duke
Guidobaldo to his duchy were celebrated with bril-
1 Luzio e Renier in Giorn. St. d. Lett. It., vol. xxxiv. p. 27.
2 M. Sanuto, vol. xxiv.
to table, and 1 supped in the Castello. And before
we had finished, the said Madonna gave birth to a
little girl, and although we greatly desired a boy,
yet we must be content with what is given us.”1
This fourth daughter who was born to Isabella
received the name of Ippolita, and became a nun in
the Dominican convent of S. Vincenzo.
Meanwhile Francesco Gonzaga was conducting
the campaign in the kingdom of Naples under great
difficulties. The French troops under his command
were turbulent and undisciplined, his movements were
impeded by heavy floods, and his plans were foiled by
the superior generalship of the Great Captain, although
he succeeded in crossing the river Garigliano and
relieving Gaeta. At length, heartily sick of the
task, and being unable, in the words of the Venetian
diarist, “ any longer to endure the pride, quarrels, and
disobedience of the French,” he resigned his command
on the plea of illness, and returned to Mantua.2 A
few weeks after his departure, on the 28th of De-
cember, the French were completely defeated in a
battle on the banks of the Garigliano, and Piero dei
Medici, who fought on the French side, was drowned
in the river. The fortress of Gaeta, which Gonsalvo
had long blockaded in vain, now surrendered, and
Naples was lost to France. On the 11th of Feb-
ruary a treaty was signed at Lyons by which
Louis XII. gave up all claim to the kingdom, and
Ferdinand of Aragon remained in undisputed pos-
session of Southern Italy.
Francesco’s return and the restoration of Duke
Guidobaldo to his duchy were celebrated with bril-
1 Luzio e Renier in Giorn. St. d. Lett. It., vol. xxxiv. p. 27.
2 M. Sanuto, vol. xxiv.