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State of political affairs in Italy Vacillating policy of Lodovico Sforza Death of King Ferrante of Naples Alliance between his successor Alfonso and Pope Alexander VI. Lodovico urges Charles VIII. to invade Naples Sends Galeazzo di Sanseverino to Lyons Cardinal della Rovere's flight from Rome Alfonso of Naples declares war Beatrice at Vigevano The Gonzagas and the Moro Duchess Isabella and her husband at Pavia.
"I find myself highly honoured and caressed by Signor Lodovico," she wrote to her husband from Pavia; and the discerning eyes of the Ferrarese ambassador, Giacomo Trotti, noticed how much pleasure His Excellency already took in the company of Madonna Beatrice and the Marchesana.
On the 14th Lodovico wrote the following letter to his niece, the Empress Bianca:
For I knew that it was I, myself, I, Lodovico Muralto, an honest, well-meaning fellow, who in the dream-life of night had done and felt all kinds of malicious wicked and low-minded things, and I would not have it. Not only the baseness, but also the absurdities of dreams, exasperated me. Night after night I was imposed upon and led about by the nose in the most ridiculous fashion.
And there was another Tuscan poet, Antonio Cammelli of Pistoia, who composed a whole volume of sonnets dedicated to "that most invincible Prince, the light and splendour of the world, Lodovico Moro." These sonnets are of great interest, less on account of their poetic merit than because of the fidelity with which they commemorate political events.
New occasions of war in Italy Differences between the marquis of Ferrara, and the Venetians The king of Naples and the Florentines attack the papal states The pope's defensive arrangements The Neapolitan army routed by the papal forces Progress of the Venetians against the marquis of Ferrara The pope makes peace, and enters into a league against the Venetians Operations of the League against the Venetians The Venetians routed at Bondeno Their losses Disunion among the League Lodovico Sforza makes peace with the Venetians Ratified by the other parties.
At length I stood immediately in front of the arbour; an abbot rushes out and almost runs over me; he turns his head to look at me; I recognise my good friend Signor Lodovico, my musical news-monger from Rome. 'What in the name of wonder' I exclaim. 'Oh, sir! sir! he screams, 'save me, protect me from this mad fury, from this crocodile, this tiger, this hyæna, this devil of a woman.
I do not respect the man that curses my mother." Then his face changed horribly, he lifted up his trembling right hand, thereby awkwardly knocking off the canvas cap from his head so that the damp gray hair fluttered. He made Jesus' sign of doom in Michel Angelo's last judgment, screaming loudly meanwhile: "Then I curse you, do you hear! I curse you, Lodovico Muralto. Your father curses you!"
Trivulzio, in whose heart the old wrong still rankled, greeted his captive with the words, "It is you, Lodovico Sforza, who drove me out for the sake of a stranger, and, not content with this, have stirred the Milanese to rebellion." Lodovico merely shrugged his shoulders, and replied quietly, "Who among us can tell the reason why we love one man and hate another?"
Galeazzo is with Lodovico, Caiazzo with King Louis, Fracassa and Antonio Maria are at Ferrara, and keep up an active correspondence with Lodovico and Galeazzo." Meanwhile, at Innsbrück, the exiled duke was anxiously watching the course of events, and awaiting a favourable moment to return and claim his own.
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