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Description - Baldassare Castiglione Volume 1; The Perfect Courtier by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...Duchess, but were unable to carry out this project. Another still more illustrious visitor was expected, as we learn from several passages in the letters of Elisabetta and Castiglione that autumn. This was the Emperor Maximilian, who had made great preparations for his Italian journey, and was very anxious to see the famous palace of Urbino. But the obstinate refusal of the Diet to allow the expedition, and his own habitual lack of money, frustrated his plans at the last moment, and His Cesarean Majesty was unable to keep the promise which he had made to the Duchess. This decision was probably a relief to her, for in August, Guidobaldo had a serious illness, which, although fortunately of brief duration, left him in an enfeebled state of health and unfit to bear any fatigue. The frequency and severity of the fits of gout from which he suffered, only increased the anxiety of his wife and friends to amuse him by every means in their power. He often watched his courtiers playing at'palla' in the new hall which he had built to take the place of the old ground under S. Domenico, where the marks of the players' balls are still to be seen on the Delia Robbia lunette above the door. And he was never tired of reading and discussing his favourite classical authors with Castiglione and Bembo, or any of the distinguished scholars whom chance brought to Urbino for a few days. 1 Cod. Vat. Urb., 904. Filippo Beroaldo and Latino Giovenale both visited Urbino that summer. Bernardo Bibbiena came in August with his master the Cardinal, and made himself so agreeable that every one lamented his departure, and, as Bembo took care to tell his friend, ALBERTO PIO 217 neither the Duchess nor Madonna Emilia were ever tired of expressing their regard for him. Lodovico Canossa and Alb...

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