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376 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
two days to write this letter. Try and keep well, and
commend me to our Bishop and to Messer Agostino,
if you are still in Rome. And God keep you from
all danger.
' Your mother,
' LuiGIA CAST.
'CASATICO, 28, 1513.'!
Early in August the good lady came to Mantua to
see her corn sold, but the crops were so abundant that
in some fields the corn was not worth reaping, and
the market was so bad that she could only raise
100 ducats. These she sent to Pesaro by a Mantuan
merchant, as soon as she heard that M. Baldassare
had arrived safely at Urbino.
Castiglione's first act on his return from Rome was
to send his servant Bindo to Mantua, and by the time
that the man was ready to go back, Madonna Luigia
had succeeded in raising another 100 ducats, which
she sent her son together with a stock of new clothes,
bed-quilts, a wolf-skin cloak, some yards of fine white
cloth, two handsome black velvet caps, and a supply
of cheese and salt meat. At the same time she
entreated him earnestly to come and spend a fortnight
or more at Casatico, in order that the long-discussed
question of his marriage might at length be settled.
The idea of an alliance with Count Girardo
Rangone's daughter had been by no means abandoned,
either by Madonna Luigia or Costanza Rangone, both
of whom had repeatedly written to Baldassare during
the past summer, urging him to come to a decision on
the subject. But besides being too much absorbed
in the cares and pleasures of Rome to think of
marriage, Castiglione w^as obviously dissatisfied with
i Cod. Vat. Lat., 8211.
two days to write this letter. Try and keep well, and
commend me to our Bishop and to Messer Agostino,
if you are still in Rome. And God keep you from
all danger.
' Your mother,
' LuiGIA CAST.
'CASATICO, 28, 1513.'!
Early in August the good lady came to Mantua to
see her corn sold, but the crops were so abundant that
in some fields the corn was not worth reaping, and
the market was so bad that she could only raise
100 ducats. These she sent to Pesaro by a Mantuan
merchant, as soon as she heard that M. Baldassare
had arrived safely at Urbino.
Castiglione's first act on his return from Rome was
to send his servant Bindo to Mantua, and by the time
that the man was ready to go back, Madonna Luigia
had succeeded in raising another 100 ducats, which
she sent her son together with a stock of new clothes,
bed-quilts, a wolf-skin cloak, some yards of fine white
cloth, two handsome black velvet caps, and a supply
of cheese and salt meat. At the same time she
entreated him earnestly to come and spend a fortnight
or more at Casatico, in order that the long-discussed
question of his marriage might at length be settled.
The idea of an alliance with Count Girardo
Rangone's daughter had been by no means abandoned,
either by Madonna Luigia or Costanza Rangone, both
of whom had repeatedly written to Baldassare during
the past summer, urging him to come to a decision on
the subject. But besides being too much absorbed
in the cares and pleasures of Rome to think of
marriage, Castiglione w^as obviously dissatisfied with
i Cod. Vat. Lat., 8211.