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cussions. Although the actual dialogues may not
have taken place on this occasion, most of the per-
sonages introduced were actually present at Urbino
during this memorable week. Pietro Bembo, the
Magnihco Giuliano, Count Lodovico da Canossa, the
young Prefect Francesco Maria, Cesare Gonzaga,
Gasparo Pallavicino, Cristoforo Romano, the Fregosi
brothers, Morello da Ortona, Roberto Pio, Lodovico
Pio, T Unico Aretino, the gay poet Terpandro, were
all there. Several others who are mentioned in
Castiglione's pages, such as Alberto Pio, Bernardo
da Bibbiena, and Niccolo Frisio, were probably also
present. Four Cardinals, we learn, were among
the guests to whom the writer alludes as having
lingered amid the delights of Urbino after the Popes
departure. Two of these, Elisabetta s brother, Sigis-
mondo Gonzaga, and Galeotto della Rovere, were
nearly connected with the ducal family, while Luigi
of Aragon, as we have already seen, was a cousin and
intimate friend of the Este princes, and the French
Cardinal de Narbonne had been brought into close
relations with Duke Guidobaldo during the recent
campaign of Bologna. These four prelates, however,
were compelled to leave Urbino, sorely against their
will, in the following week, and join the Pope at the
gates of Rome to take part in his triumphal entry on
Palm Sunday.
Castiglione was unable to gratify his mother s wish
that he should pay her another visit that Lent, but in
Holy Week he rode as far as Tuscany on a pious
pilgrimage to Camaldoli, Among the monks of this
order there was a certain holy father, a Florentine
named Don Michele, whom Bembo visited in his cell in
the autumn of 1506, when the benehce of the neigh-
bouring Badia of La Vernia was conferred on him by
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cussions. Although the actual dialogues may not
have taken place on this occasion, most of the per-
sonages introduced were actually present at Urbino
during this memorable week. Pietro Bembo, the
Magnihco Giuliano, Count Lodovico da Canossa, the
young Prefect Francesco Maria, Cesare Gonzaga,
Gasparo Pallavicino, Cristoforo Romano, the Fregosi
brothers, Morello da Ortona, Roberto Pio, Lodovico
Pio, T Unico Aretino, the gay poet Terpandro, were
all there. Several others who are mentioned in
Castiglione's pages, such as Alberto Pio, Bernardo
da Bibbiena, and Niccolo Frisio, were probably also
present. Four Cardinals, we learn, were among
the guests to whom the writer alludes as having
lingered amid the delights of Urbino after the Popes
departure. Two of these, Elisabetta s brother, Sigis-
mondo Gonzaga, and Galeotto della Rovere, were
nearly connected with the ducal family, while Luigi
of Aragon, as we have already seen, was a cousin and
intimate friend of the Este princes, and the French
Cardinal de Narbonne had been brought into close
relations with Duke Guidobaldo during the recent
campaign of Bologna. These four prelates, however,
were compelled to leave Urbino, sorely against their
will, in the following week, and join the Pope at the
gates of Rome to take part in his triumphal entry on
Palm Sunday.
Castiglione was unable to gratify his mother s wish
that he should pay her another visit that Lent, but in
Holy Week he rode as far as Tuscany on a pious
pilgrimage to Camaldoli, Among the monks of this
order there was a certain holy father, a Florentine
named Don Michele, whom Bembo visited in his cell in
the autumn of 1506, when the benehce of the neigh-
bouring Badia of La Vernia was conferred on him by
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