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FRA GIROLAMO
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would give his son the bishopric of Bologna and find
a husband for his daughter.
' Cardinal Campeggio,' wrote Castiglione, 'goes very
reluctantly to Niirnberg as legate against Luther,
because the people there are all infuriated, and many
think that he takes this journey at the risk of his
life. He has begged the Sacred College to marry his
daughter, if God should allow him to perish, and has
asked other things, as one who is making his last will
and testament. The Cardinals have promised to do
all that he asks, and no one else could be found
willing to go there. ^
One of Campeggio's retinue on this occasion was
Castiglione's old enemy, the Mantuan friar Girolamo
Eremita, who was formerly employed to spy upon
his actions by the Marquis Francesco, but who now
professed to be the ambassador's devoted friend and
servant. The letters which Fra Girolamo addressed
to Castiglione from Augsburg and Niirnberg are still
preserved in the Mantuan archives, and give many
interesting details of his journey. The writer dwells
on the courteous reception given to the nuncio by the
Bishop of Trent and the gentlemen of Brixen. He
describes the frozen torrents and glaciers, the rugged
mountains which they crossed on their way to Inns-
bruck, and the pleasure with which their eyes,' wearied
with the sight of continual fields of snow and ice,
rested once more on the delicious foliage of beeches
and the fresh green of junipers and larches.' The
forests of Bavaria were in all their spring beauty, and
Augsburg, in its beautiful plain, reminded him of
Verona. But when the Legate rode through the
streets and gave his blessing to the people, he was
i Archivio di Torino, Codice 31 ; Renier, 'Lettere inedite/ IQ, 20.
14—2
211
would give his son the bishopric of Bologna and find
a husband for his daughter.
' Cardinal Campeggio,' wrote Castiglione, 'goes very
reluctantly to Niirnberg as legate against Luther,
because the people there are all infuriated, and many
think that he takes this journey at the risk of his
life. He has begged the Sacred College to marry his
daughter, if God should allow him to perish, and has
asked other things, as one who is making his last will
and testament. The Cardinals have promised to do
all that he asks, and no one else could be found
willing to go there. ^
One of Campeggio's retinue on this occasion was
Castiglione's old enemy, the Mantuan friar Girolamo
Eremita, who was formerly employed to spy upon
his actions by the Marquis Francesco, but who now
professed to be the ambassador's devoted friend and
servant. The letters which Fra Girolamo addressed
to Castiglione from Augsburg and Niirnberg are still
preserved in the Mantuan archives, and give many
interesting details of his journey. The writer dwells
on the courteous reception given to the nuncio by the
Bishop of Trent and the gentlemen of Brixen. He
describes the frozen torrents and glaciers, the rugged
mountains which they crossed on their way to Inns-
bruck, and the pleasure with which their eyes,' wearied
with the sight of continual fields of snow and ice,
rested once more on the delicious foliage of beeches
and the fresh green of junipers and larches.' The
forests of Bavaria were in all their spring beauty, and
Augsburg, in its beautiful plain, reminded him of
Verona. But when the Legate rode through the
streets and gave his blessing to the people, he was
i Archivio di Torino, Codice 31 ; Renier, 'Lettere inedite/ IQ, 20.
14—2