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218 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
welcome from the Duchess, and felt strangely loth
to go, when summoned elsewhere on public or private
business. For the court of Urbino was not only,
as Cristoforo Romano called it, in one of his last
letters to Bembo, the ' blessed temple of all the
virtues,' but, as Castiglione and Bembo described it,
a ' home of joy and common brotherhood, a shelter
and haven where troubled souls could find peace of
mind and freedom from carking care.'
' Come here!' wrote Bembo to Luigi da Porto,
who was lying ill at Venice and oppressed with
strange melancholy. ' Everything invites you. We
will laugh for a week, and drive away the blues,
which, I see, have laid hold upon you. If you love
me, be joyful and keep up your spirits, for this is the
only way to live. Therefore come A
And in a letter to Latino Juvenale in Rome he
writes:
' There is little to say of our doings here ; but we
laugh, we jest, we play games, we invent new tricks
and practical jokes, we feast and study, and now and
then we write poetry. If I had more time, which I
have not to-day, I would send you a proof of this in
a beautiful which my dear M. Baldassare
Castiglione has composed during the last few days.
You shall have it another time. Farewell. On the
9th of September, 1507, in more than haste A
Probably this cu7zso7z^ was the poem beginning,
' Amor, poi che 1 pensier,'
in which Dante's famous line,
' Amor ch' a millo amato amor perdona/
is introduced, and each verse, after the fashion of the
day, ends with a line of Petrarch.
i ' Lettere,' iii. 107. ^ iii. 33.
welcome from the Duchess, and felt strangely loth
to go, when summoned elsewhere on public or private
business. For the court of Urbino was not only,
as Cristoforo Romano called it, in one of his last
letters to Bembo, the ' blessed temple of all the
virtues,' but, as Castiglione and Bembo described it,
a ' home of joy and common brotherhood, a shelter
and haven where troubled souls could find peace of
mind and freedom from carking care.'
' Come here!' wrote Bembo to Luigi da Porto,
who was lying ill at Venice and oppressed with
strange melancholy. ' Everything invites you. We
will laugh for a week, and drive away the blues,
which, I see, have laid hold upon you. If you love
me, be joyful and keep up your spirits, for this is the
only way to live. Therefore come A
And in a letter to Latino Juvenale in Rome he
writes:
' There is little to say of our doings here ; but we
laugh, we jest, we play games, we invent new tricks
and practical jokes, we feast and study, and now and
then we write poetry. If I had more time, which I
have not to-day, I would send you a proof of this in
a beautiful which my dear M. Baldassare
Castiglione has composed during the last few days.
You shall have it another time. Farewell. On the
9th of September, 1507, in more than haste A
Probably this cu7zso7z^ was the poem beginning,
' Amor, poi che 1 pensier,'
in which Dante's famous line,
' Amor ch' a millo amato amor perdona/
is introduced, and each verse, after the fashion of the
day, ends with a line of Petrarch.
i ' Lettere,' iii. 107. ^ iii. 33.