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80 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
mother of the success which had attended his efforts,
and of the courtesy with which he had been received
by these cultured princes.
'To-morrow/he adds, 'we intend, by God's will,
to go and dine at San Benedetto ; and, if Your
Magnificence has no objection, I intend to remain
there during Holy Week, and communicate in this
quiet retreat, which seems to me well fitted for these
devotions/ He proceeds to consult his mother about
some private affairs which had to be arranged with
Messer Amato Boschetto, Jacopo's brother, who was
with him at Carpi, and ends by sending greetings to
his brother Jeronimo, his sister Anna, and all the
others at homed
That year witnessed Cesare Borgia's invasion of
Romagna and the marriage of his sister Lucrezia to
Alfonso d' Este. These events were followed a few
months later by the treacherous conquest of Urbino.
Guidobaldo and his wife Elisabetta took refuge at
the court of Mantua, and Baldassare, whose mother
was a kinswoman of the Duchess, was for the first
time brought into close relations with these illustrious
exiles. In all probability he accompanied the Marquis
Francesco when he and his father-in-law, the Duke
of Ferrara, went to meet the French king at Asti,
and entered Milan in his train on July 28. Here
Guidobaldo and Giovanni Sforza, both of whom had
been deprived of their dominions by Cesare, came to
plead their cause with Ring Louis; and Francesco
Gonzaga was already boasting that he would soon
avenge their wrongs, when, to the dismay of the as-
sembled Princes, the hated Borgia suddenly appeared
in person on the scene.
One August evening, about nine o'clock, when the
i Cod. Vat. Lat., 8210.
mother of the success which had attended his efforts,
and of the courtesy with which he had been received
by these cultured princes.
'To-morrow/he adds, 'we intend, by God's will,
to go and dine at San Benedetto ; and, if Your
Magnificence has no objection, I intend to remain
there during Holy Week, and communicate in this
quiet retreat, which seems to me well fitted for these
devotions/ He proceeds to consult his mother about
some private affairs which had to be arranged with
Messer Amato Boschetto, Jacopo's brother, who was
with him at Carpi, and ends by sending greetings to
his brother Jeronimo, his sister Anna, and all the
others at homed
That year witnessed Cesare Borgia's invasion of
Romagna and the marriage of his sister Lucrezia to
Alfonso d' Este. These events were followed a few
months later by the treacherous conquest of Urbino.
Guidobaldo and his wife Elisabetta took refuge at
the court of Mantua, and Baldassare, whose mother
was a kinswoman of the Duchess, was for the first
time brought into close relations with these illustrious
exiles. In all probability he accompanied the Marquis
Francesco when he and his father-in-law, the Duke
of Ferrara, went to meet the French king at Asti,
and entered Milan in his train on July 28. Here
Guidobaldo and Giovanni Sforza, both of whom had
been deprived of their dominions by Cesare, came to
plead their cause with Ring Louis; and Francesco
Gonzaga was already boasting that he would soon
avenge their wrongs, when, to the dismay of the as-
sembled Princes, the hated Borgia suddenly appeared
in person on the scene.
One August evening, about nine o'clock, when the
i Cod. Vat. Lat., 8210.