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Another fact in Lorenzo's favor was that he had the warm support not only of the beautiful Ippolyta Maria, daughter of Cosmo's friend, Francesco Sforza of Milan, and now wife of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, King Ferrante's heir, as well as of Don Federigo, the monarch's younger son, who, along with Ippolyta, was a friend to the "New Learning," but he also had the whole body of Neapolitan humanists on his side, scarce one of whom but had experienced in some form or another the Medicean bounty.
It is surprising that upon no better authority than this should these precious tears of Ferrante's have been crystallized in history.
To this he adds the ubiquitous story of King Ferrante's bursting into tears at the news "though never before known to weep for the death of his own children." Let us pause a moment to contemplate the grief the Neapolitan King. What picture is evoked in your minds by that statement of his bursting into tears at Alexander's election?
But when he saw a younger rival preferred to him, he left Milan in disgust and retired to Naples, where he entered King Ferrante's service, and became from that time a bitter enemy of the Sforza's. Meanwhile the Moro loaded his favourite Galeazzo with honours and rewards.
Beatrice was too young to realize the rare degree of culture which had made Alfonso's and Ferrante's court the favourite abode of the Greek and Latin scholars of the age, too innocent to be aware of the dark deeds which threw a shadow over these sunny regions, where the strange medley of luxury and vice, of refinement and cruelty, recalled the days of Imperial Rome.
Visit of Duke Ercole to Milan, and of Isabella d'Este Election of Pope Alexander VI. Bribery of the Cardinals Influence of Ascanio Sforza over the new Pope, and satisfaction of Lodovico Hunting-parties at Pavia and Vigevano Fêtes at Milan Visit of Isabella to Genoa Lodovico's letters Piero de Medici King Ferrante's jealousy of the alliance between Rome and Milan.
Rome will soon become a Milanese camp." But while Lodovico Sforza looked with suspicion on the intrigues of Ferrante's son Alfonso, and was anxious to strengthen his alliance with other powers, he had as yet no thought of inviting the French to invade Italy.
In November, 1488, his brother Ermes was sent to Naples with a suite of four hundred persons, who entered King Ferrante's capital sumptuously arrayed in silk brocade, and amazed even his luxurious courtiers by the splendour of their gold chains and jewelled plumes.
It was Ferrante's hope, and no doubt the hope of Giuliano della Rovere, that the King of Spain would lend an ear to these grievances, and move in the matter of attempting to depose Alexander; but an event more important than any other in the whole history of Spain or of Europe, for that matter was at the moment claiming its full attention, and the trifling affairs of the King of Naples trifling by comparison went all unheeded.
The Countess greeted Odo with a flattering deference and at once drew him into conversation with Pievepelago and the Dominican. "We are discussing," said she, "the details of Prince Ferrante's approaching visit to the shrine of our Lady of the Mountain.
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