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was named Misser Antonio Massone/ brought me mine.
This nobleman handed me the Letters, on behalf of His
Majesty, with extraordinary ceremony, saying: "The
King makes you a present of these, in order that you may
be able to serve him with greater courage. These are
Letters of Naturalization:" and he related to me how
they had been bestowed upon Piero Istrozi at his own
request after a long delay/ and as a great favour; but
that these had been sent to me as a present by (the
King) himself of his own accord: that such a favour
had never before been conferred in that Realm. At
these words I thanked the King with much feeling: then
I begged the said secretary that he would of his kind-
ness tell me what these Letters of Naturalization meant.
This secretary was very accomplished and agreeable,
and spoke Italian very well: giving vent first to a loud
laugh, he then, recovering his gravity, told me in my own
language (that is to say in Italian), what the Letters of
Naturalization meant, which (letters) were one of the
highest dignities that could be conferred upon a foreigner,
and he said: "This is a far greater matter than to be
made a Venetian noble." On leaving me, and returning
to the King, he reported the whole matter to His Majesty,
who laughed awhile and then said: "Now I want him
to know why I sent him Letters of Naturalization. Go
and make him lord of the Chateau of in which
^ Antoine le Magon, Secretary to Queen Marguerite of Navarre,
was the author of a romance printed at Lyons in 1550, and the
first translator into French of the ZLr<37/2<??w2 of Boccaccio: a trans-
lation made at the suggestion of his Royal mistress, and published
in Paris in 1545. ty DESSESSARTS, WAr /AALazLyy ;A /a
-F7*<272r<?, Paris, 1800-1803, Vol. IV.
7/M/A A772^C for 77ZZ7/A A777^$<7."
was named Misser Antonio Massone/ brought me mine.
This nobleman handed me the Letters, on behalf of His
Majesty, with extraordinary ceremony, saying: "The
King makes you a present of these, in order that you may
be able to serve him with greater courage. These are
Letters of Naturalization:" and he related to me how
they had been bestowed upon Piero Istrozi at his own
request after a long delay/ and as a great favour; but
that these had been sent to me as a present by (the
King) himself of his own accord: that such a favour
had never before been conferred in that Realm. At
these words I thanked the King with much feeling: then
I begged the said secretary that he would of his kind-
ness tell me what these Letters of Naturalization meant.
This secretary was very accomplished and agreeable,
and spoke Italian very well: giving vent first to a loud
laugh, he then, recovering his gravity, told me in my own
language (that is to say in Italian), what the Letters of
Naturalization meant, which (letters) were one of the
highest dignities that could be conferred upon a foreigner,
and he said: "This is a far greater matter than to be
made a Venetian noble." On leaving me, and returning
to the King, he reported the whole matter to His Majesty,
who laughed awhile and then said: "Now I want him
to know why I sent him Letters of Naturalization. Go
and make him lord of the Chateau of in which
^ Antoine le Magon, Secretary to Queen Marguerite of Navarre,
was the author of a romance printed at Lyons in 1550, and the
first translator into French of the ZLr<37/2<??w2 of Boccaccio: a trans-
lation made at the suggestion of his Royal mistress, and published
in Paris in 1545. ty DESSESSARTS, WAr /AALazLyy ;A /a
-F7*<272r<?, Paris, 1800-1803, Vol. IV.
7/M/A A772^C for 77ZZ7/A A777^$<7."