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CHAPTER XXVI
1515-1516
French invasion of Italy—Giuliano de' Medici visits Gubbio—Falls
ill in Florence—The Duke of Urbino refuses to serve under
Lorenzo—Castiglione sent to Rome—Victory of Marignano
—Leo X. treats with Francis 1.—Meeting between the
King and Pope at Bologna—Castiglione's interview with the
King on his way to Mantua—His marriage with Ippolita
Torelli.
LEO X. and the Cardinals who shared his confidence
had flattered themselves that the French King would
delay his intended invasion of Italy till the following
year. But Francis 1. was young and ambitious, eager
for military glory, and impatient to recover Milan and
Naples. In June, while Castiglione still lingered with
his friends at Mantua, the French forces were gather-
ing at Lyons, and a few weeks later they descended
on Lombardy. The Pope, now really alarmed at the
prospect of a foreign invasion, at length joined the
League against France, and appointed Giuliano to
the chief command of the Papal armyJ Early in
July the Magnihco left Rome for Bologna, where
the forces of the Church were to be assembled, and
stopped at Gubbio on his journey to visit the Duke
of Urbino, and, according to the Venetian envoy,
persuade him to fight for Italy and not for France.
i Pastor, iv. 76.
399
1515-1516
French invasion of Italy—Giuliano de' Medici visits Gubbio—Falls
ill in Florence—The Duke of Urbino refuses to serve under
Lorenzo—Castiglione sent to Rome—Victory of Marignano
—Leo X. treats with Francis 1.—Meeting between the
King and Pope at Bologna—Castiglione's interview with the
King on his way to Mantua—His marriage with Ippolita
Torelli.
LEO X. and the Cardinals who shared his confidence
had flattered themselves that the French King would
delay his intended invasion of Italy till the following
year. But Francis 1. was young and ambitious, eager
for military glory, and impatient to recover Milan and
Naples. In June, while Castiglione still lingered with
his friends at Mantua, the French forces were gather-
ing at Lyons, and a few weeks later they descended
on Lombardy. The Pope, now really alarmed at the
prospect of a foreign invasion, at length joined the
League against France, and appointed Giuliano to
the chief command of the Papal armyJ Early in
July the Magnihco left Rome for Bologna, where
the forces of the Church were to be assembled, and
stopped at Gubbio on his journey to visit the Duke
of Urbino, and, according to the Venetian envoy,
persuade him to fight for Italy and not for France.
i Pastor, iv. 76.
399