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CORONATION OF THE POPE
79
As for that part of your sweet and charming letter in
which you say that the prayers I offer in this habit
must avail more, I gladly agree, and hope that the
friends who are nearest to me may receive more than
others. All the same, it is devil’s work to ask favours
for others, even for those whom you most wish to
help! but I will try to obey Your Highness, and ask
boldly.”1
All Rome rejoiced at the peaceful opening of the
new pontificate. “ Once Venus reigned, then Mars,
now Pallas holds her sway,” was the motto which
Agostino Chigi placed on the triumphal arch which
he raised in honour of the Pope’s coronation. And
while the Duke of Urbino, clad in deep mourning
for his uncle, held the Pope’s bridle as Prefect of
Rome and Captain-General of the Church, the
Duke of Ferrara, absolved from papal censures, and
sumptuously attired in white and gold brocade, was
one of the most splendid figures in the ranks of the
stately procession that passed from St. Peter’s to the
Lateran.2 No one rejoiced more sincerely over his
restoration to the Holy Father’s favour than his sister
Isabella, and, as she told her friend, the new Cardinal,
she only longed for the day when she should be able
to come to Rome herself and kiss the Pope’s feet.
1 Luzio, Federico, p. 13.
2 Gregorovius, Rom, viii. 167 ; Roscoe, Leo X., App.
79
As for that part of your sweet and charming letter in
which you say that the prayers I offer in this habit
must avail more, I gladly agree, and hope that the
friends who are nearest to me may receive more than
others. All the same, it is devil’s work to ask favours
for others, even for those whom you most wish to
help! but I will try to obey Your Highness, and ask
boldly.”1
All Rome rejoiced at the peaceful opening of the
new pontificate. “ Once Venus reigned, then Mars,
now Pallas holds her sway,” was the motto which
Agostino Chigi placed on the triumphal arch which
he raised in honour of the Pope’s coronation. And
while the Duke of Urbino, clad in deep mourning
for his uncle, held the Pope’s bridle as Prefect of
Rome and Captain-General of the Church, the
Duke of Ferrara, absolved from papal censures, and
sumptuously attired in white and gold brocade, was
one of the most splendid figures in the ranks of the
stately procession that passed from St. Peter’s to the
Lateran.2 No one rejoiced more sincerely over his
restoration to the Holy Father’s favour than his sister
Isabella, and, as she told her friend, the new Cardinal,
she only longed for the day when she should be able
to come to Rome herself and kiss the Pope’s feet.
1 Luzio, Federico, p. 13.
2 Gregorovius, Rom, viii. 167 ; Roscoe, Leo X., App.