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CHAPTER XXXVIII
1528—1529
Marriage of Ercole d’Este to Renee de France—Isabella goes to
Modena to receive the bride—-Fetes at Ferrara—Character
of Renee—Isabella’s regard for her niece—Renee’s sympathy
with French and Italian reformers — Isabella’s toleration —
Messibugo’s Book of Ercole’s festival—Treaties of Barcelona
and Cambray—Charles V. lands at Genoa—Is entertained by
the Duke of Ferrara on his way to Bologna—Ferrante Gonzaga
marches against Florence—Isabella visits Solarolo—Arrives at
Bologna for the Congress—State entry of Charles V.
In the autumn of 1528, Isabella went to Ferrara
and was present at the festivities in honour of her
nephew Ercole’s marriage to Renee, daughter of
Louis XII., King of France, and sister of the
reigning Queen Claude. The successful campaign
of the French armies under Lautrec in Naples had
encouraged the Duke of Ferrara to renew his old
alliance with Francis I.,1 and on the 28th of June the
wedding of his son Ercole with this monarch’s sister-
in-law, the Princess Renee, was solemnised with
great splendour in the Samte Chapelle. After a
succession of hunting-parties and balls at Fontaine-
bleau and St. Germain, the bridal pair set out for
Italy on the 20th of September, as Bartolom-
meo Prospero wrote from Montargis to inform
the Marchesa. “ They will travel,” he writes, “ by
slow stages through Lyons, Turin, Parma, Reggio,
and Modena, and will hardly reach Ferrara before
1 Guicciardini, Storla d’Italia, ix. 314.
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1528—1529
Marriage of Ercole d’Este to Renee de France—Isabella goes to
Modena to receive the bride—-Fetes at Ferrara—Character
of Renee—Isabella’s regard for her niece—Renee’s sympathy
with French and Italian reformers — Isabella’s toleration —
Messibugo’s Book of Ercole’s festival—Treaties of Barcelona
and Cambray—Charles V. lands at Genoa—Is entertained by
the Duke of Ferrara on his way to Bologna—Ferrante Gonzaga
marches against Florence—Isabella visits Solarolo—Arrives at
Bologna for the Congress—State entry of Charles V.
In the autumn of 1528, Isabella went to Ferrara
and was present at the festivities in honour of her
nephew Ercole’s marriage to Renee, daughter of
Louis XII., King of France, and sister of the
reigning Queen Claude. The successful campaign
of the French armies under Lautrec in Naples had
encouraged the Duke of Ferrara to renew his old
alliance with Francis I.,1 and on the 28th of June the
wedding of his son Ercole with this monarch’s sister-
in-law, the Princess Renee, was solemnised with
great splendour in the Samte Chapelle. After a
succession of hunting-parties and balls at Fontaine-
bleau and St. Germain, the bridal pair set out for
Italy on the 20th of September, as Bartolom-
meo Prospero wrote from Montargis to inform
the Marchesa. “ They will travel,” he writes, “ by
slow stages through Lyons, Turin, Parma, Reggio,
and Modena, and will hardly reach Ferrara before
1 Guicciardini, Storla d’Italia, ix. 314.
286