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SISTER CHIARA
857
letter to the Count on behalf of the gallant Captain
Gaspare San Severino, who, if report said true,
was about to wed her niece, the widowed Maria
Varana.
' It is the desire of my heart/ she wrote, ' if
possible, to help the said San Severino, because of
the relationship between us and the many obliga-
tions that I owe him. Therefore I beg you to show
this letter to His Holiness's Treasurer ; and when
you have heard his advice, go to the Popes feet and
commend San Severino to him most warmly from
me, employing all the means in your power, and
doing everything that you can imagine to bring this
to a good end. And let me know at once what is
the result of your efforts, that I may tell him how
far I have been able to help him, according to my
earnest wishV
After this Fracasso, as we have seen, came to
Rome, and bore the Duke's banner in the Papal
procession ; but the Duchess's exertions do not seem
to have met with any further success. In June he
returned to Lombardy, and his marriage with Maria
Varana never took place. Some of Elisabetta's
wishes, it must be owned, were by no means easy
to gratify. Guidobaldo's widowed sister, Chiara, had,
on the death of her husband, Roberto Malatesta,
taken the veil in the convent of Poor Clares, founded
by her father, Duke Federico, at Urbino. She was
now greatly disturbed at the scandals which had
arisen among the nuns of Santa Chiara of Assisi,
and was anxious to bring them under the rule of the
reformed Franciscan community known as the Osser-
vanti, to which her own convent belonged. Accord-
i Cod. Vat. Lat., 8211.
857
letter to the Count on behalf of the gallant Captain
Gaspare San Severino, who, if report said true,
was about to wed her niece, the widowed Maria
Varana.
' It is the desire of my heart/ she wrote, ' if
possible, to help the said San Severino, because of
the relationship between us and the many obliga-
tions that I owe him. Therefore I beg you to show
this letter to His Holiness's Treasurer ; and when
you have heard his advice, go to the Popes feet and
commend San Severino to him most warmly from
me, employing all the means in your power, and
doing everything that you can imagine to bring this
to a good end. And let me know at once what is
the result of your efforts, that I may tell him how
far I have been able to help him, according to my
earnest wishV
After this Fracasso, as we have seen, came to
Rome, and bore the Duke's banner in the Papal
procession ; but the Duchess's exertions do not seem
to have met with any further success. In June he
returned to Lombardy, and his marriage with Maria
Varana never took place. Some of Elisabetta's
wishes, it must be owned, were by no means easy
to gratify. Guidobaldo's widowed sister, Chiara, had,
on the death of her husband, Roberto Malatesta,
taken the veil in the convent of Poor Clares, founded
by her father, Duke Federico, at Urbino. She was
now greatly disturbed at the scandals which had
arisen among the nuns of Santa Chiara of Assisi,
and was anxious to bring them under the rule of the
reformed Franciscan community known as the Osser-
vanti, to which her own convent belonged. Accord-
i Cod. Vat. Lat., 8211.