Description - Baldassare Castiglione the Perfect Courtier; His Life and Letters, 1478-1529 Volume 1 by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...letters. Bembo speaks of this fair maiden as ' Madonna vostra consorte' in a letter which he addressed to Alberto in August, when he was daily expected at Urbino. Another correspondent describes him and his betrothed bride as the most devoted pair, who have no eyes or ears for anyone else, and says that when the hour of parting comes, so many tears are shed on both sides, that every one pities them. But, in spite of this mutual devotion, the lovers were never united, and the misfortunes which befell Alberto, the loss of his State and his long exile, put an end to his hopes of marriage. Terpandro, the gay and popular poet, lingered on until late in the autumn, and was followed to Rome by affectionate messages from all the ladies and many entreaties to return speedily. In October Raphael came from Florence, where he was at work on his great Entombment for Madonna Atalanta Baglioni of Perugia, and paid his respects to the Duke and Duchess, and renewed his friendship with Castiglione, whose affection for the painter was well known to all the court--' Your Raphael, ' as Gian Cristoforo calls him in the dialogues of the 'Cortegiano.'1 Each one of these guests received the same gracious 1 Book i., 50. welcome from the Duchess, and felt strangely loth to go, when summoned elsewhere on public or private business. For the court of Urbino was not only, as Cristoforo Romano called it, in one of his last letters to Bembo, the 'blessed temple of all the virtues, ' but, as Castiglione and Bembo described it, a 'home of joy and common brotherhood, a shelter and haven where troubled souls could find peace of mind and freedom from carking care.' 'Come here!' wrote Bembo to Luigi da Porto, who was lying ill at Venice and oppressed with strange melancholy..
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