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284 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
in the art of painting. So we beg you to employ all
your influence to bring him with you to Mantua, and
our works at Marmirolo shall wait until we have the
advantage of his advice. So let him come without
fail, in order that our buildings may not remain too
long untinished.'i
On September 5 the Count replied:
' I will not fail to do my utmost with Giulio the
painter, and hope in any case to bring him back with
me to Mantua, because he himself has the greatest
wish to accompany me, and is only waiting to be
paid for the new hall which he has painted for the
Pope, and which is most beautiful.
Castiglione's thoughts were turning homewards,
and on the very day that he accepted the Pope's
offer, he wrote a gay letter to the Marchesana, saying
that he hoped soon to kiss her gracious hands, and
come and dine in her delicious loggia on the lake at
Porto, a spot far dearer to him than all the grandeurs
of imperial Rome. Isabella in return sent him her
warmest congratulations, and told him how eagerly
his presence was awaited in the loggia which he
praised in such fine phrases.
' I long more than ever to enjoy your Illustrious
Highness's loggia,' he wrote one hot August evening,
' and grieve to think how seldom I shall be there now.
When I am in Spain I shall long to be back there
with you, but shall console myself by doing Don
Ferrante good service, until God allows me to return
home and find the repose that is sorely needed at my
time of life.'3
i Gaye,'Carteggio/ ii. 156. ^ Serassi, i. 138.
3 Luzio e Renier, ' Mantova e Urbino/ 556.
in the art of painting. So we beg you to employ all
your influence to bring him with you to Mantua, and
our works at Marmirolo shall wait until we have the
advantage of his advice. So let him come without
fail, in order that our buildings may not remain too
long untinished.'i
On September 5 the Count replied:
' I will not fail to do my utmost with Giulio the
painter, and hope in any case to bring him back with
me to Mantua, because he himself has the greatest
wish to accompany me, and is only waiting to be
paid for the new hall which he has painted for the
Pope, and which is most beautiful.
Castiglione's thoughts were turning homewards,
and on the very day that he accepted the Pope's
offer, he wrote a gay letter to the Marchesana, saying
that he hoped soon to kiss her gracious hands, and
come and dine in her delicious loggia on the lake at
Porto, a spot far dearer to him than all the grandeurs
of imperial Rome. Isabella in return sent him her
warmest congratulations, and told him how eagerly
his presence was awaited in the loggia which he
praised in such fine phrases.
' I long more than ever to enjoy your Illustrious
Highness's loggia,' he wrote one hot August evening,
' and grieve to think how seldom I shall be there now.
When I am in Spain I shall long to be back there
with you, but shall console myself by doing Don
Ferrante good service, until God allows me to return
home and find the repose that is sorely needed at my
time of life.'3
i Gaye,'Carteggio/ ii. 156. ^ Serassi, i. 138.
3 Luzio e Renier, ' Mantova e Urbino/ 556.