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428 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
Philip II., and Federico Gonzaga himself, are in-
cluded in the series.
In this popular sanctuary, five miles from Mantua
and about the same distance from Casatico, Madonna
Luigia now decided to found a chapel for her son's last
resting-place. Sixteen months after Count Baldas-
sare's death, his remains were removed from Toledo,
and brought by sea to Genoa, and thence to Le
Grazie. Here they were laid in a red marble sarco-
phagus, together with the ashes of his wife Ippolita,
which were brought from S. Agnese and buried in
the same graved The painter Giulio Romano, whom
Castiglione had brought to Mantua, gladly supplied
the design, and a stately monument, bearing a statue
of the risen Christ, was erected over the tomb. The
figure, with its uplifted arm and flying draperies,
recalls the Christ of the Transfiguration which Messer
Giulio had painted from his master's designs in
Raphael's last altar-piece; and the roof of the chapel
is decorated with medallions of the Passion and
Resurrection framed in delicate arabesques, similar to
those which had excited Castiglione's admiration in
the Vatican Loggie. At the request of Lodovico
Strozzi, whom he met at the Emperor's coronation,
at Bologna in 1580, Bembo composed a Latin epitaph
to be inscribed on the marble.
' Four days ago,' he wrote from Venice to his old
friend's nephew, ' I received a letter from M. Lazzaro
Bonamico, saying that you had asked him to remind
me of the promise which I made to you in Bologna
regarding your uncle Count Baldassare's epitaph.
And since you also begged that this should be done
promptly, I send you these lines which I have com-
posed without troubling M. Lazzaro. If I had more
i Donesmondi, 150.
Philip II., and Federico Gonzaga himself, are in-
cluded in the series.
In this popular sanctuary, five miles from Mantua
and about the same distance from Casatico, Madonna
Luigia now decided to found a chapel for her son's last
resting-place. Sixteen months after Count Baldas-
sare's death, his remains were removed from Toledo,
and brought by sea to Genoa, and thence to Le
Grazie. Here they were laid in a red marble sarco-
phagus, together with the ashes of his wife Ippolita,
which were brought from S. Agnese and buried in
the same graved The painter Giulio Romano, whom
Castiglione had brought to Mantua, gladly supplied
the design, and a stately monument, bearing a statue
of the risen Christ, was erected over the tomb. The
figure, with its uplifted arm and flying draperies,
recalls the Christ of the Transfiguration which Messer
Giulio had painted from his master's designs in
Raphael's last altar-piece; and the roof of the chapel
is decorated with medallions of the Passion and
Resurrection framed in delicate arabesques, similar to
those which had excited Castiglione's admiration in
the Vatican Loggie. At the request of Lodovico
Strozzi, whom he met at the Emperor's coronation,
at Bologna in 1580, Bembo composed a Latin epitaph
to be inscribed on the marble.
' Four days ago,' he wrote from Venice to his old
friend's nephew, ' I received a letter from M. Lazzaro
Bonamico, saying that you had asked him to remind
me of the promise which I made to you in Bologna
regarding your uncle Count Baldassare's epitaph.
And since you also begged that this should be done
promptly, I send you these lines which I have com-
posed without troubling M. Lazzaro. If I had more
i Donesmondi, 150.