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48 COUNT BAUD ASS ARE CASTIGLIONE
But Castiglione's hopes were once more doomed
to disappointment. Madonna Alfonsina had returned
to Rome with the Cardinal, and her baneful influence
once more reasserted itself at the Vatican. When,
on October 27, the Venetian envoy called to congratu-
late His Holiness on his safe return from hunting,
he found the Pope closeted with Alfonsina and the
Cardinal. On the next day the Pope sent for him,
and told him, with tears in his eyes, that he had spent
yesterday with Madonna Alfonsina. His Holiness
quoted the line '
adding that Sig. Lorenzo's little girl Caterina was a
line big childd After this, it is not surprising to hear
that the Pope turned a deaf ear to all Francesco
Maria's proposals.
Neither the Count's persuasive eloquence nor his
inexhaustible patience and good temper could avail
anything, and he returned to Mantua with nothing
better than barren compliments and civil messages to
the Marchesana and her son.
i Brown, ii. 564, 565.
But Castiglione's hopes were once more doomed
to disappointment. Madonna Alfonsina had returned
to Rome with the Cardinal, and her baneful influence
once more reasserted itself at the Vatican. When,
on October 27, the Venetian envoy called to congratu-
late His Holiness on his safe return from hunting,
he found the Pope closeted with Alfonsina and the
Cardinal. On the next day the Pope sent for him,
and told him, with tears in his eyes, that he had spent
yesterday with Madonna Alfonsina. His Holiness
quoted the line '
adding that Sig. Lorenzo's little girl Caterina was a
line big childd After this, it is not surprising to hear
that the Pope turned a deaf ear to all Francesco
Maria's proposals.
Neither the Count's persuasive eloquence nor his
inexhaustible patience and good temper could avail
anything, and he returned to Mantua with nothing
better than barren compliments and civil messages to
the Marchesana and her son.
i Brown, ii. 564, 565.