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A GARRISON TOWN
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that blessed cuirass, but do not know if he will secure
it. Carlo asks me to let Francesco go on Sunday to
carve at Messer Lodovico's^ table. I promised to let
him go, and begged Messer Lodovico at the same
time to ask our lord's leave for me to come to Mantua
for these three days. This, I think, he will easily
grant, as it cannot matter if I am away for this short
time, and I am very anxious to come. I beg you to
send me some salt and sausages. Sebastian would be
glad if you could send him enough horsehair to stuff
a saddle, and I should be grateful if you would also
let me have a piece of salt meat.'
The leave for which he asked was evidently granted,
and a month later, when he had returned to his post
after a visit to Mantua, he wrote again to announce
his safe arrival:
' Until this moment I have had no time to write
to Your Magnificence. We arrived all safe, and the
horses too. These peasants are certainly rather poor
creatures, and have to be driven like donkeys. I had
much rather stay at Mantua, not so much for my
own convenience or to escape work, but because
this place is very lonely. I beg you to let me have
two pounds of candles and a pair of boots for Mar-
cello. I am trying to hnd a trusted messenger to
send to Brescia, and beg Marco Secco to see if he can
possibly obtain this tiresome cuirass, and hnd out if it
costs more than the six gold ducats which I paid
Maestro Michelotto. . . .'^
From another letter, written a year later, we hnd
that Baldassare was sent by his lord to Carpi to
arrange some business matters with Alberto Rio and
his brothers. On April 2, 1501, he informed his
i Lodovico or Luigi Gonzaga, his cousin.
^ Cod. Vat. Lat., 8210.
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that blessed cuirass, but do not know if he will secure
it. Carlo asks me to let Francesco go on Sunday to
carve at Messer Lodovico's^ table. I promised to let
him go, and begged Messer Lodovico at the same
time to ask our lord's leave for me to come to Mantua
for these three days. This, I think, he will easily
grant, as it cannot matter if I am away for this short
time, and I am very anxious to come. I beg you to
send me some salt and sausages. Sebastian would be
glad if you could send him enough horsehair to stuff
a saddle, and I should be grateful if you would also
let me have a piece of salt meat.'
The leave for which he asked was evidently granted,
and a month later, when he had returned to his post
after a visit to Mantua, he wrote again to announce
his safe arrival:
' Until this moment I have had no time to write
to Your Magnificence. We arrived all safe, and the
horses too. These peasants are certainly rather poor
creatures, and have to be driven like donkeys. I had
much rather stay at Mantua, not so much for my
own convenience or to escape work, but because
this place is very lonely. I beg you to let me have
two pounds of candles and a pair of boots for Mar-
cello. I am trying to hnd a trusted messenger to
send to Brescia, and beg Marco Secco to see if he can
possibly obtain this tiresome cuirass, and hnd out if it
costs more than the six gold ducats which I paid
Maestro Michelotto. . . .'^
From another letter, written a year later, we hnd
that Baldassare was sent by his lord to Carpi to
arrange some business matters with Alberto Rio and
his brothers. On April 2, 1501, he informed his
i Lodovico or Luigi Gonzaga, his cousin.
^ Cod. Vat. Lat., 8210.