[Footnote *216: See _supra_ note *1, p. 208. There, too, Guidobaldo's names are given as Guido Paolo Ubaldo. As stated here they seem to be right.] [Footnote 217: See above, p. 207.] [Illustration: _Gio. Sanzi, pinx. L. Ceroni, sculp._ GUIDOBALDO I. _From a picture in the Colonna Gallery in Rome_] Almost from his cradle the Prince was remarkable for a sweet and docile temper, as well as for uncommon promise. We are gravely assured by his preceptor that, while other infants had scarcely learned to satisfy their instinctive need of sustenance, he could express his wants; while they were trying to speak he was mastering his rudiments; and these, with similar proofs of precocity, which we shall presently cite, are asserted with the most solemn asseverations of their literal truth. Fully aware of the importance of early directing so prompt a genius, his father engaged, as the guide of his youthful studies, Ludovico Odasio of Padua, an accomplished gentleman, as well as a distinguished scholar, whom he ever treated with the attention due to his own merits, as well as to the importance of his charge. The after life of his pupil, and the language used by Odasio in his funeral eulogy,[*218] bear ample testimony to the careful and satisfactory tuition which the Prince imbibed, and the benefit he reaped from his instructions. Nor were these ungratefully received by the latter, who, on attaining majority, bestowed upon his preceptor the countship of Isola Forsara, near Gubbio, which his descendants continued to enjoy during many generations. [Footnote 218: Guidobaldo always honoured and enriched Odasio, to whom he gave, for instance, a fine _podere_ on 26 February, 1495 (cf. _Arch. Centr. Perg. d'Urbino_, p. 275). This eulogy was an ovation and nothing more; it was not the truth, or meant to be the truth. Cf. UGOLINI, _op. cit._, vol. II., p. 151.]