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82 COUNT BAUDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
worth, that I offer you the " Hellenica " of Xenophon,
a work full of interest, which I have just printed. The
author was so eloquent and so deeply imbued with the
Attic spirit that the Greeks called him the Attic bee.
In this also he resembles you. Eike yourself he was
the captain of an army, like you he was learned, well
educated, and distinguished by his virtues. These are
indeed great and noble qualities. But I have said
enough. Accept this present, which I hope will
please you, and which you will keep as a remem-
brance of my regard, and of my devotion to you and
your realm. Greetings.'^
'VENICE, 14, 1503.'
This dedication deserves to he remembered as a
proof of the love and admiration with which Guido-
haldo was regarded beyond the walls of Urbino.
But there were two events which, more than the
grateful praises bestowed upon him by scholars and
artists, more even than the eloquent words of Aldo,
have made the name of this Duke memorable in the
eyes of posterity. During his reign Raphael was born,
in the old stone house that is still standing in the narrow
street leading up the steep mountain-side, and twenty
years later, while the century was still young, Bal-
dassare Castiglione first came to Urbino.
* Xenophon 'Hellenica.' In Aldi Neacademia, 1503.
worth, that I offer you the " Hellenica " of Xenophon,
a work full of interest, which I have just printed. The
author was so eloquent and so deeply imbued with the
Attic spirit that the Greeks called him the Attic bee.
In this also he resembles you. Eike yourself he was
the captain of an army, like you he was learned, well
educated, and distinguished by his virtues. These are
indeed great and noble qualities. But I have said
enough. Accept this present, which I hope will
please you, and which you will keep as a remem-
brance of my regard, and of my devotion to you and
your realm. Greetings.'^
'VENICE, 14, 1503.'
This dedication deserves to he remembered as a
proof of the love and admiration with which Guido-
haldo was regarded beyond the walls of Urbino.
But there were two events which, more than the
grateful praises bestowed upon him by scholars and
artists, more even than the eloquent words of Aldo,
have made the name of this Duke memorable in the
eyes of posterity. During his reign Raphael was born,
in the old stone house that is still standing in the narrow
street leading up the steep mountain-side, and twenty
years later, while the century was still young, Bal-
dassare Castiglione first came to Urbino.
* Xenophon 'Hellenica.' In Aldi Neacademia, 1503.