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GRANT OF NOVILLARA
873
bearing the date September 2, 1518. The preamble
of the grant speaks in glowing terms of the Count's
scholarly accomplishments and warlike exploits;
above all, of his unswerving fidelity and indefatigable
labours in the ducal service. It records the long days
and nights spent in unceasing toil, in distant and
perilous journeys, and ends by promising him larger
rewards, more fitting to his splendid services, in future
days/
No one was better pleased to hear of his safe
arrival than his mother. Madonna Luigia had been
apparently a good deal disturbed by her son's pro-
longed residence in Rome. While his family and
friends all congratulated the Count on his eleva-
tion, and rejoiced at the signal marks of favour
bestowed upon him by the new Pope, his mother
felt as if her beloved son was slipping out of her
hold, and was being carried farther from her every
day. His departure from Urbino had been so hasty
and unexpected, that for some time she was left in
doubt as to his movements, and could only send her
letters by the Duchess Elisabetta's seneschal, addressed
to her son ' in Urbino, Rome, or wherever he may be.'
When at length his letters reached her, they were
short and hurried notes, in which Baldassare seemed
hardly to have leisure to reply to her anxious inquiries
or satisfy her curiosity about his new estates at
Novillara. These last were a source of great concern
to this active-minded lady, who had the deepest
distrust of her son's business capacities, and never
ceased begging him to send a trustworthy steward to
take possession of his Castello and collect the rents
due to him.
i ' De origine rebus, gestis ac privileges Gentis Castilionse/
Matteo di Castiglione.
873
bearing the date September 2, 1518. The preamble
of the grant speaks in glowing terms of the Count's
scholarly accomplishments and warlike exploits;
above all, of his unswerving fidelity and indefatigable
labours in the ducal service. It records the long days
and nights spent in unceasing toil, in distant and
perilous journeys, and ends by promising him larger
rewards, more fitting to his splendid services, in future
days/
No one was better pleased to hear of his safe
arrival than his mother. Madonna Luigia had been
apparently a good deal disturbed by her son's pro-
longed residence in Rome. While his family and
friends all congratulated the Count on his eleva-
tion, and rejoiced at the signal marks of favour
bestowed upon him by the new Pope, his mother
felt as if her beloved son was slipping out of her
hold, and was being carried farther from her every
day. His departure from Urbino had been so hasty
and unexpected, that for some time she was left in
doubt as to his movements, and could only send her
letters by the Duchess Elisabetta's seneschal, addressed
to her son ' in Urbino, Rome, or wherever he may be.'
When at length his letters reached her, they were
short and hurried notes, in which Baldassare seemed
hardly to have leisure to reply to her anxious inquiries
or satisfy her curiosity about his new estates at
Novillara. These last were a source of great concern
to this active-minded lady, who had the deepest
distrust of her son's business capacities, and never
ceased begging him to send a trustworthy steward to
take possession of his Castello and collect the rents
due to him.
i ' De origine rebus, gestis ac privileges Gentis Castilionse/
Matteo di Castiglione.