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GUIDOBALDO
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out armed with a pickaxe at the head of his servants,
and cut a road to the convent through the snow-
drifts. After his wife's death he employed Piero
della Francesca to paint the hne altar-piece now in
the Brera at Milan, for this little sanctuary. The
artist reproduced the fair features of the young
Duchess in the Madonna, who is here enthroned,
with the Duke in black armour kneeling at her feet.
During the remaining years of his life Federico's time
was spent partly in active warfare beyond the limits
of his own duchy, and partly in building and
decorating the new palace, which became his chief
interest. In April, 1482, he was appointed Captain
of the armies of the League that had been
formed between Milan, Florence, and Naples for the
defence of Ferrara against Venice, and left home on
St. George's Day with a foreboding that he would
never return. Five months afterwards he died of
malarial fever in the camp of La Stellata, near
Ferrara, to the bitter grief of his subjects, who loved
him as a lather. His body, clad in the ducal robes
of crimson velvet, with his sword at his side and
the Garter on his breast, was brought back to
Lrbino and buried by his wife's side in the vaults
of S. Bernardino.
Guidobaldo, the ten-year-old child whom Federico
had conhded to the care of his nephew Ottaviano
Ubaldini, when he left home for his last campaign,
now succeeded to the ducal honours, and reigned
over a loyal and contented people, who counted
themselves fortunate to be the subjects of a Monte-
feltro prince. A charming portrait of the young
Duke, by Melozzo da Forli, is preserved in the
Colonna Palace in Rome. The boy wears a red cap
on his long locks, and a massive gold chain round
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out armed with a pickaxe at the head of his servants,
and cut a road to the convent through the snow-
drifts. After his wife's death he employed Piero
della Francesca to paint the hne altar-piece now in
the Brera at Milan, for this little sanctuary. The
artist reproduced the fair features of the young
Duchess in the Madonna, who is here enthroned,
with the Duke in black armour kneeling at her feet.
During the remaining years of his life Federico's time
was spent partly in active warfare beyond the limits
of his own duchy, and partly in building and
decorating the new palace, which became his chief
interest. In April, 1482, he was appointed Captain
of the armies of the League that had been
formed between Milan, Florence, and Naples for the
defence of Ferrara against Venice, and left home on
St. George's Day with a foreboding that he would
never return. Five months afterwards he died of
malarial fever in the camp of La Stellata, near
Ferrara, to the bitter grief of his subjects, who loved
him as a lather. His body, clad in the ducal robes
of crimson velvet, with his sword at his side and
the Garter on his breast, was brought back to
Lrbino and buried by his wife's side in the vaults
of S. Bernardino.
Guidobaldo, the ten-year-old child whom Federico
had conhded to the care of his nephew Ottaviano
Ubaldini, when he left home for his last campaign,
now succeeded to the ducal honours, and reigned
over a loyal and contented people, who counted
themselves fortunate to be the subjects of a Monte-
feltro prince. A charming portrait of the young
Duke, by Melozzo da Forli, is preserved in the
Colonna Palace in Rome. The boy wears a red cap
on his long locks, and a massive gold chain round