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48 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGUIONE
have already written by an armour- bearer, and also by
Sigismondo, from Ferrara, only beg Your Magnificence
to be as cheerful and of good courage as I am. And
if it is true that I am far from home and from many
persons whom I love dearly, at least I am happy and
can suffer misfortunes willingly now my mind is at
rest.
'FoRLi, 12, 1504.'
Madonna Luigia, who had all along felt some mis-
givings at the course which her son had chosen, was
further relieved by a letter from her nephew Cesare,
who wrote in high spirits to assure his aunt of
Baldassare s well-being and of the marked favour
which the Duke showed him :
' If until now, my dear and honoured Aunt, 1 have
shown myself all too negligent a son, I will no longer
persist in these bad courses. Therefore, putting ex-
cuses for my past negligence aside, I will pay my
addresses to you, feeling sure that you have already
forgiven me, on many grounds ; and if you have not
forgiven me of your own free will, 1 am quite certain
that no words of mine will be of any avail. Here I
am alive and well, and always ready to execute Your
Magnificence s commands. Messer Baldassare is also
well, and his foot is beginning to mend. And he is
treated with such kindness by this illustrious lord
that every day he feels better satisfied to be here.
We are both of us gay and happy, and hope that you
and all our kin are the same.
' FoRLI, 11, 1504.'
'F.S.—Your Magnificence will kindly commend me
to Messer Jeronimo and to Falcone, as well as to
Messer Jacopo and Madonna Polissena, with whom I
rejoice cordially in whatever good fortune falls to their
share/
i Serassi, ii. 235.
have already written by an armour- bearer, and also by
Sigismondo, from Ferrara, only beg Your Magnificence
to be as cheerful and of good courage as I am. And
if it is true that I am far from home and from many
persons whom I love dearly, at least I am happy and
can suffer misfortunes willingly now my mind is at
rest.
'FoRLi, 12, 1504.'
Madonna Luigia, who had all along felt some mis-
givings at the course which her son had chosen, was
further relieved by a letter from her nephew Cesare,
who wrote in high spirits to assure his aunt of
Baldassare s well-being and of the marked favour
which the Duke showed him :
' If until now, my dear and honoured Aunt, 1 have
shown myself all too negligent a son, I will no longer
persist in these bad courses. Therefore, putting ex-
cuses for my past negligence aside, I will pay my
addresses to you, feeling sure that you have already
forgiven me, on many grounds ; and if you have not
forgiven me of your own free will, 1 am quite certain
that no words of mine will be of any avail. Here I
am alive and well, and always ready to execute Your
Magnificence s commands. Messer Baldassare is also
well, and his foot is beginning to mend. And he is
treated with such kindness by this illustrious lord
that every day he feels better satisfied to be here.
We are both of us gay and happy, and hope that you
and all our kin are the same.
' FoRLI, 11, 1504.'
'F.S.—Your Magnificence will kindly commend me
to Messer Jeronimo and to Falcone, as well as to
Messer Jacopo and Madonna Polissena, with whom I
rejoice cordially in whatever good fortune falls to their
share/
i Serassi, ii. 235.