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CASTIGLIONE'S LABOURS 3^
that can be done to the French on that side will
be done. The Pope has had letters informing him
of all these things. God knows if they are true !
Every one speaks and writes according to his own
wishes.^
When in June the Duke received a Papal brief
desiring him to be ready to march to Verona to help
the Emperor Maximilian against the Venetians, he
raised difficulties as to his own position, and bade
Castiglione ask that a guard should be given him,
and suitable provision made for the protection of his
person, declaring that this was the only way in
which he could ensure the obedience of the insolent
Spaniards and be safe from their attacks. ^ The
Pope, however, abandoned his intention of sending
troops to Lombardy, and the matter dropped. But
the Duke's conduct was afterwards remembered
against him, and a shadow darkened the good under-
standing between himself and the Pope, which Cas-
tiglione was doing his utmost to maintain.
Francesco Marias quarrel with Giovanni Maria
da Camerino, who usurped the title belonging to his
nephew, young Sigismondo Varano, and tried to seize
his duchy, was another cause of contention which
called for all Castiglione's tact. Other questions
regarding the payment of troops, or the claims of
captains who had served under the Duke in the
last campaign; the settlement of loans which had
been advanced by the banking firm of the Sauli, or
of small bills sent in by musicians and actors, who
clamoured for a few ducats ; requests for benefices
and pensions from religious communities or indi-
* 'Archivio tli Stato di Firenze: Carte di Urbino,' f. 241 ; Mar-
tinati, p. 66.
3 Cod. Vat. Lat., 8211, f. 511.
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that can be done to the French on that side will
be done. The Pope has had letters informing him
of all these things. God knows if they are true !
Every one speaks and writes according to his own
wishes.^
When in June the Duke received a Papal brief
desiring him to be ready to march to Verona to help
the Emperor Maximilian against the Venetians, he
raised difficulties as to his own position, and bade
Castiglione ask that a guard should be given him,
and suitable provision made for the protection of his
person, declaring that this was the only way in
which he could ensure the obedience of the insolent
Spaniards and be safe from their attacks. ^ The
Pope, however, abandoned his intention of sending
troops to Lombardy, and the matter dropped. But
the Duke's conduct was afterwards remembered
against him, and a shadow darkened the good under-
standing between himself and the Pope, which Cas-
tiglione was doing his utmost to maintain.
Francesco Marias quarrel with Giovanni Maria
da Camerino, who usurped the title belonging to his
nephew, young Sigismondo Varano, and tried to seize
his duchy, was another cause of contention which
called for all Castiglione's tact. Other questions
regarding the payment of troops, or the claims of
captains who had served under the Duke in the
last campaign; the settlement of loans which had
been advanced by the banking firm of the Sauli, or
of small bills sent in by musicians and actors, who
clamoured for a few ducats ; requests for benefices
and pensions from religious communities or indi-
* 'Archivio tli Stato di Firenze: Carte di Urbino,' f. 241 ; Mar-
tinati, p. 66.
3 Cod. Vat. Lat., 8211, f. 511.
23—2