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CHIERICATI AT MANTUA
streets; many members of the Cardinal’s house-
hold had fallen ill, and the Venetian ambassador
was among the victims. But what grieved him
most of all was the death of his dear friend,
Ammonio of Lucca, the King’s Latin secretary,
who was carried off by a sudden attack that week.
“ Alas ! ” he wrote to Mantua, “ this cruel sickness
has robbed me of him in the short space of eight
hours, and I am torn with a sorrow and anguish
that can find no comfort.” Leaving the stricken
city, Chiericati hastened to the court of the Catholic
King, at Middelburg in Zeeland, and wrote to tell
Isabella he hoped soon to return to Italy and pay
his respects to her in person. But urgent affairs
forced him to travel straight to Rome, whence he
was sent in the following spring to Spain, and
witnessed the triumphal entry of the young King
Charles V. into Barcelona. After sending the
Marchesa glowing accounts of the lovely gardens
and myrtle and orange bowers of this delicious
land, the nuncio went on to the south of France,
where he met the Grand Ecuyer, our old friend
Galeazzo di Sanseverino, at Montpelier, in April
1519. Later in the summer he was at length able
to obtain a brief holiday and visit his friends at
Vicenza and Mantua.
The Marchesa welcomed Chiericati warmly, and
acquired much valuable information from him, not
only concerning his travels in distant lands, but
regarding political affairs. He promised to use his
influence on behalf of her son, both with his master
the Pope, and with the new Emperor, Charles V.,
who was supposed to look coldly on the young
Marquis as an ally of his rival, Francis I. The
CHIERICATI AT MANTUA
streets; many members of the Cardinal’s house-
hold had fallen ill, and the Venetian ambassador
was among the victims. But what grieved him
most of all was the death of his dear friend,
Ammonio of Lucca, the King’s Latin secretary,
who was carried off by a sudden attack that week.
“ Alas ! ” he wrote to Mantua, “ this cruel sickness
has robbed me of him in the short space of eight
hours, and I am torn with a sorrow and anguish
that can find no comfort.” Leaving the stricken
city, Chiericati hastened to the court of the Catholic
King, at Middelburg in Zeeland, and wrote to tell
Isabella he hoped soon to return to Italy and pay
his respects to her in person. But urgent affairs
forced him to travel straight to Rome, whence he
was sent in the following spring to Spain, and
witnessed the triumphal entry of the young King
Charles V. into Barcelona. After sending the
Marchesa glowing accounts of the lovely gardens
and myrtle and orange bowers of this delicious
land, the nuncio went on to the south of France,
where he met the Grand Ecuyer, our old friend
Galeazzo di Sanseverino, at Montpelier, in April
1519. Later in the summer he was at length able
to obtain a brief holiday and visit his friends at
Vicenza and Mantua.
The Marchesa welcomed Chiericati warmly, and
acquired much valuable information from him, not
only concerning his travels in distant lands, but
regarding political affairs. He promised to use his
influence on behalf of her son, both with his master
the Pope, and with the new Emperor, Charles V.,
who was supposed to look coldly on the young
Marquis as an ally of his rival, Francis I. The