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826 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
he entered Florence in state, and once more took up
his abode in the house of his fathers. Among the many
congratulations which he received on this occasion,
none were more cordial than those which reached
him from the Duchess Elisabetta,, who had been so
good a friend to him in the past and whose kindness
he never forgot.
But although so many of his friends were dead and
gone, Castiglione remained loyal to his master. After
the continual warfare of the last three years, he was
glad to enjoy a few peaceful days at Urbino. But, as
usual, he found himself very short of money—
his usual term for empty pockets—and
complained that for six months he and his comrades-
in-arms had not seen a farthing of the Pope's pay.
Early in December he wrote that he expected to be
sent by his lord to take part in Massimiliano Sforza's
triumphal entry to Milan, after which he hoped to
come and spend three or four days at Casatico and
talk of many things—above all, of those tedious
marriage negotiations, which, as he remarked, seemed
alike doomed to end in failure. But by the end of
the year he wrote that his journey to Milan had been
given up, and that he saw no hope of coming home
till carnival was over. A month later he wrote a
long letter to satisfy his mother's impatient inquiries
with regard to a proposal which she had received from
Costanza Rangone some months before, and which he
had refused to consider until the war was over. This
lady, who was connected with his mother through the
Uberti and Strozzi, had proposed Ginevra Rangone, the
only daughter of the powerful Count Girardo, as a
suitable wife for Baldassare, and had afterwards dis-
cussed the matter with her kinsman himself when he
was at Modena.
he entered Florence in state, and once more took up
his abode in the house of his fathers. Among the many
congratulations which he received on this occasion,
none were more cordial than those which reached
him from the Duchess Elisabetta,, who had been so
good a friend to him in the past and whose kindness
he never forgot.
But although so many of his friends were dead and
gone, Castiglione remained loyal to his master. After
the continual warfare of the last three years, he was
glad to enjoy a few peaceful days at Urbino. But, as
usual, he found himself very short of money—
his usual term for empty pockets—and
complained that for six months he and his comrades-
in-arms had not seen a farthing of the Pope's pay.
Early in December he wrote that he expected to be
sent by his lord to take part in Massimiliano Sforza's
triumphal entry to Milan, after which he hoped to
come and spend three or four days at Casatico and
talk of many things—above all, of those tedious
marriage negotiations, which, as he remarked, seemed
alike doomed to end in failure. But by the end of
the year he wrote that his journey to Milan had been
given up, and that he saw no hope of coming home
till carnival was over. A month later he wrote a
long letter to satisfy his mother's impatient inquiries
with regard to a proposal which she had received from
Costanza Rangone some months before, and which he
had refused to consider until the war was over. This
lady, who was connected with his mother through the
Uberti and Strozzi, had proposed Ginevra Rangone, the
only daughter of the powerful Count Girardo, as a
suitable wife for Baldassare, and had afterwards dis-
cussed the matter with her kinsman himself when he
was at Modena.