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THE COUNT S WEDDING
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Marc Antonio that I am to come to Mantua without
your company. I should like to have a few words with
you on the subject, but will wait until I can relieve
my feelings by word of mouth ! I really think your
ambassadors are of the nature of the raven in the
fable, and nothing that they say is to be believed ! I
commend the hearer of this letter, who is on his way
to Mantua, to your favour, and am very sorry to hear
of the illness of our Messer Tommasod
The date and signature of this last letter has been
torn 0% but we know that Ippolita did not have long
to wait. On Sunday, October 19, the long-delayed
wedding took place, and M. Baldassare brought his
wife home. The happy event was celebrated with
great rejoicings at the court of Mantua, and the
Gonzaga princes paid the most signal honours to the
Count and his youthful bride. The young Duchess
Leonora, accompanied by Giovanni Gonzaga's wife,
Laura Bentivoglio—the aunt of Ippolita—and Laura
Pallavicino, the wife of Gian Francesco Gonzaga of
Castiglione, and attended by a large company of
courtiers and friends of the bridegroom, drove out in
a chariot to meet the bride, some miles beyond the
Porta di Cerese. The Marquis, who had long been
prevented by illness from taking any active part in
public functions, excited still more attention by going
to meet Ippolita on the marshy plain known as the
Tejetto, or Te, where the famous palace adorned by
Giulio Romano s frescoes now stands. Here the illus-
trious Signor himself' kissed the hand of the bride, and
received both herself and her husband with many
kind and loving words of greeting, after which he
took leave of them and drove along the Te for his
* Cod. Vat. Lat., 8212.
5
Marc Antonio that I am to come to Mantua without
your company. I should like to have a few words with
you on the subject, but will wait until I can relieve
my feelings by word of mouth ! I really think your
ambassadors are of the nature of the raven in the
fable, and nothing that they say is to be believed ! I
commend the hearer of this letter, who is on his way
to Mantua, to your favour, and am very sorry to hear
of the illness of our Messer Tommasod
The date and signature of this last letter has been
torn 0% but we know that Ippolita did not have long
to wait. On Sunday, October 19, the long-delayed
wedding took place, and M. Baldassare brought his
wife home. The happy event was celebrated with
great rejoicings at the court of Mantua, and the
Gonzaga princes paid the most signal honours to the
Count and his youthful bride. The young Duchess
Leonora, accompanied by Giovanni Gonzaga's wife,
Laura Bentivoglio—the aunt of Ippolita—and Laura
Pallavicino, the wife of Gian Francesco Gonzaga of
Castiglione, and attended by a large company of
courtiers and friends of the bridegroom, drove out in
a chariot to meet the bride, some miles beyond the
Porta di Cerese. The Marquis, who had long been
prevented by illness from taking any active part in
public functions, excited still more attention by going
to meet Ippolita on the marshy plain known as the
Tejetto, or Te, where the famous palace adorned by
Giulio Romano s frescoes now stands. Here the illus-
trious Signor himself' kissed the hand of the bride, and
received both herself and her husband with many
kind and loving words of greeting, after which he
took leave of them and drove along the Te for his
* Cod. Vat. Lat., 8212.