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CHAPTER X
1505
Castiglione's plans for his brother—His friends among the Cardinals
—A mission to England proposed—Delays and intrigues—
Arrival of the Venetian ambassadors—Pietro Bembo in Rome
and at Urbino—Death of Ascanio Sforza—Cardinal Galeotto
della Rovere appointed Vice-Chancellor—Death of Falcone—
Castiglione's Latin elegy.
MEANWHILE Castiglione was not forgetting to for-
ward his brother Jeronimo s interests. With this end
in view, he took care to pay assiduous court to the
most powerful Cardinals at the Vatican. He was
already intimate with several of these prelates, notably
with three of the younger members of the Sacred
College. There was Luigi of Aragon, a scion of the
royal house of Naples, who bore a remarkable likeness
to his grandfather, King Ferrante, and proudly styled
himself ' illustrissimo,' as well as ' reverendissimo,' in
token of his august lineage. Alter the death of his
young wife, Battistina Cibo, within a year of her
marriage, Luigi took orders and became a Cardinal
before he was twenty. His close relationship with
the Este princes, his scholarly tastes and love of
music and travel, all endeared him to Castiglione,
whom he had known from boyhood, and whom he
frequently met at Mantua and Ferrara. There was
also Giovanni de' Medici, the great Lorenzo's youngest
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1505
Castiglione's plans for his brother—His friends among the Cardinals
—A mission to England proposed—Delays and intrigues—
Arrival of the Venetian ambassadors—Pietro Bembo in Rome
and at Urbino—Death of Ascanio Sforza—Cardinal Galeotto
della Rovere appointed Vice-Chancellor—Death of Falcone—
Castiglione's Latin elegy.
MEANWHILE Castiglione was not forgetting to for-
ward his brother Jeronimo s interests. With this end
in view, he took care to pay assiduous court to the
most powerful Cardinals at the Vatican. He was
already intimate with several of these prelates, notably
with three of the younger members of the Sacred
College. There was Luigi of Aragon, a scion of the
royal house of Naples, who bore a remarkable likeness
to his grandfather, King Ferrante, and proudly styled
himself ' illustrissimo,' as well as ' reverendissimo,' in
token of his august lineage. Alter the death of his
young wife, Battistina Cibo, within a year of her
marriage, Luigi took orders and became a Cardinal
before he was twenty. His close relationship with
the Este princes, his scholarly tastes and love of
music and travel, all endeared him to Castiglione,
whom he had known from boyhood, and whom he
frequently met at Mantua and Ferrara. There was
also Giovanni de' Medici, the great Lorenzo's youngest
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