Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . t waspresided over by Guidobaldos wife, themuch beloved and admired Duchess Elisabetta, one of the great Gon-zaga family. Castigliones own sketch of this court (see translationbelow) renders any other delineation of it supererogatory; but hissilence regarding himself personally makes it necessary to gatherknowledge of his life from other sources. His person is made knownto us by Raffaels interesting portrait of him, now in the Louvre,painted in 1515. It is a portrait by a friend. RatYael was only liveyears younger than Castiglione, a
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . t waspresided over by Guidobaldos wife, themuch beloved and admired Duchess Elisabetta, one of the great Gon-zaga family. Castigliones own sketch of this court (see translationbelow) renders any other delineation of it supererogatory; but hissilence regarding himself personally makes it necessary to gatherknowledge of his life from other sources. His person is made knownto us by Raffaels interesting portrait of him, now in the Louvre,painted in 1515. It is a portrait by a friend. RatYael was only liveyears younger than Castiglione, and their affectionate relations were of long standing. Castiglione was the son of a valorous soldier who fought by theside of the Martinis Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua, but his early youthwas spent not at Mantua but at Milan, where he received from famousscholars — Demetrio Calcondile and his peers—a brilliant classicaleducation, rather than the training one would look for in his fathison. His fathers death in 1494 obliged him. in those troublous times,. Castiglione -340 BALDASSARE CAST1GLIONE to seek a protector. As his mother was distantly connected with hisfathers friends, the rulers of Mantua, it was to them that his eyesturned, and in 1499 he was one of the suite of the Marquis on theoccasion of the triumphal entrance of Louis XII. of France into Milanafter his conquest in three weeks of the duchy; a triumph followedby the hideous ten years <( cagingn of Lodovico il Moro, Milans spectacles as this triumph and this imprisonment, which theboy of twenty-one now beheld, were to be familiar to him all his king-like pope Alexander VI. and his son Caesar Borgia, the war-rior Julius II., the Medici Leo X., the soon-dead Adrian VI., andthe irresolute Clement VII., successively ruled in Rome, or ratherdwelt in Rome, the Cloaca Maxima of Italy, whose pollution sappedthe strength of all the land. The sack of Rome in 1527 was amongthe last of the long series of
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