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50 COUNT BAUDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
A day or two later Guidobaldo disbanded his troops
and returned to Urbino, taking with him four waggons
laden with his own recovered treasures, including the
famous library of the ducal palace, which Cesare
Borgia had carried off and stored in the citadel of
Eorli.
It was then that the Duke took Castiglione with him
to the city which was to be his home during the next
ten years. In the midst of the confusion of these first
days he found time to write a few hurried lines, in-
forming his mother of his safe arrival:
' Since Maestro Antonio is going to you, I must
inform Your Magnificence that last Friday, on the
6th of the present month, we at length reached
Urbino safe and sound, and with great rejoicing, since
we had all of us been longing to be here. We have
done what little was possible, in these three days,
to put our house in order, and now we shall get on
capitally. Maestro Antonio can tell you all that you
care to know about us. The Lady Duchess and
Madonna Emilia commend themselves very warmly
to you. My foot is improving, but only very slowly.
I beg you to send me, by the first opportunity, a piece
of hne white cloth to make a new pair of hose for my-
self, as I cannot procure any here, and also some dark
green cloth to make a pair for Smeraldo [his groom].
Please ask Jeronimo also to send me my copy of
Poliziano s " Stanze Yolgari." And I commend myself
to Your Magnificence.^
' URBINO, *S'ep^?72&7* 9, 1504/
i Serassi, i. 8.
A day or two later Guidobaldo disbanded his troops
and returned to Urbino, taking with him four waggons
laden with his own recovered treasures, including the
famous library of the ducal palace, which Cesare
Borgia had carried off and stored in the citadel of
Eorli.
It was then that the Duke took Castiglione with him
to the city which was to be his home during the next
ten years. In the midst of the confusion of these first
days he found time to write a few hurried lines, in-
forming his mother of his safe arrival:
' Since Maestro Antonio is going to you, I must
inform Your Magnificence that last Friday, on the
6th of the present month, we at length reached
Urbino safe and sound, and with great rejoicing, since
we had all of us been longing to be here. We have
done what little was possible, in these three days,
to put our house in order, and now we shall get on
capitally. Maestro Antonio can tell you all that you
care to know about us. The Lady Duchess and
Madonna Emilia commend themselves very warmly
to you. My foot is improving, but only very slowly.
I beg you to send me, by the first opportunity, a piece
of hne white cloth to make a new pair of hose for my-
self, as I cannot procure any here, and also some dark
green cloth to make a pair for Smeraldo [his groom].
Please ask Jeronimo also to send me my copy of
Poliziano s " Stanze Yolgari." And I commend myself
to Your Magnificence.^
' URBINO, *S'ep^?72&7* 9, 1504/
i Serassi, i. 8.