Identifier: baldassarecastig02adyj (find matches)
Title: Baldassare Castiglione the perfect courtier, his life and letters, 1478-1529;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright, d. 1924
Subjects: Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529 Italy -- History 1492-1559
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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skill and agilityexcited the admiration of all present. Only, as ZuanNegro remarked, the bulls were craven creatures,who turned tail at the first onset of the toreadors, andmade poor sport. ^ But the chief events of this summer at Toledowere the arrangement of the Emperors marriage withthe Infanta Isabel of Portugal, and the arrival inSpain of the captive King of France. The Portu-guese alliance had long been popular with the Spanishpeople, and the dowry of 300,000 ducats offered bythe King of Portugal, together with the liberalpromises made by the Cortes, finally decided Charlesto abandon his proposed marriage with Henry VIII.sdaughter Mary, and wed the Infanta. The comingof Francis I. was more unexpected and less generallypopular. The Viceroy had embarked at Portofinowith his royal captive, intending to sail to Naples,but at the Kings urgent request he suddenly alteredhis course, and landed at Barcelona on June 20.The Emperor himself told Castiglione that Lannoy * Sanuto, xliv. 239.
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Iholo, J. Kuhn. FRAXirS IBV .IKAX CLOUEl (LOIVHE). To filter. 270, V.l. II. FRANCIS I. 277 had taken this step entirely on his own responsihihty,but that the action met with his full appro\al. Pescara and the other imperial generals in Lom-bardy, however, were furious with the trick whiclithe Viceroy had played upon them in order to gratifyhis own vainglory, and there can be no doubt thatthis sudden move excited universal alarm in Italy.Sessa told the Emperor that no sooner was the newsknown in Rome than he noticed a great change inthe Popes countenance, and Bourbon and Leyvawarned Charles that the Viceroys ill-judged actionwould drive His Holiness to combine with theother Italian powers against him.^ Castiglionealludes to both these subjects in an interestingletter which he wrote to the Archbishop of Capuaon July 5 : First of all I must tell you that to-morrow, whichis the 6th instant, we expect tlie Viceroy, who hasleft the Most Christian King in Valencia, and hassent word to Ca?sar

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