" Count Baldassare Castiglione 51
" He goes to England 52
" His marriage, and conjugal affection 53
" His portraits 53
" His death and character 55
" Giuliano de' Medici 56
" Cesare Gonzaga 58
" Ottaviano Fregoso 58
" Cardinal Federigo Fregoso 59
" Bembo's letter on his death 61
" Cardinal Bembo 62
" His attachment to Lucrezia Borgia 63
" His promotion under Leo X. 64
" His lax morals 64
" Bernardo Dovizii, Cardinal Bibbiena 65
" His ingratitude and ambition 67
" His beauty and worldly character 68
" Bernardo Accolti, l'Unico Aretino 69
" Count Ludovico Canossa 70
" Alessandro Trivulzio 71
CHAPTER XXII
1507. The Duke's declining health 72
" The court enlivened by female society 72
" Emilia Pio, surnamed Pia 75
" Her decorum and wit 76
" Her management of the social resources
of the palace 77
" The origin of Castiglione's _Cortegiano_ 78
" Guidobaldo a martyr to gout 79
1506-1508. Extraordinary derangement of the seasons 79
1508. April. He is carried to Fossombrone 80
" " 11. His great sufferings and resigned end 80
" " The paganism of his biographers 81
" " Precautions of the Duchess against
a revolution 82
" " And of the Pontiff 83
" " His body taken to Urbino 84
" " 13. The Prefect Francesco Maria proclaimed
Duke of Urbino 85
" " His visit to the Duchess 85
" " Funeral of Guidobaldo 85
" May 2. His obsequies and funeral oration 85
" His portraits 86
" His accomplishments and excellent character 86
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