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The cousins Cornaro and Bernardini were of the same generation, and no less anxious for the honor of their house, but they represented opposite poles of Venetian character; Bernardini's gravity and dignity of demeanor concealed a depth of tenderness and consideration which he rarely confessed, yet, a true Venetian statesman, he could observe in silence, nor use his knowledge until it might be of some avail.
Borgia mio fratre passato de questa vita in Urbino. Forli, January 16, 1500. Archives of Modena. Silva Cronicarum Bernardini Zambotti. Ms. in the library of Ferrara. La bona memoria del Cardinale Borgia mio fratre. Rome, July 30, 1500. Gonzaga archives. Cittadella's opinion that Giovanni Borgia, junior, was a son of Pierluigi, Alexander's brother, is also incorrect.
"Why did you come so late, Nobili?" asked Orsetti, turning his head, and speaking in the pause of a waltz with Luisa Bernardini. "You must go at once and talk to Trenta about the cotillon." "Well, Nobili, you gave us a splendid entertainment for the festival," said Franchi. "Per Dio! there were no women to trouble us." "No women!" exclaimed Civilla "that was the only fault. Divine woman!
But for the Lady of the Bernardini Venetian to her heart's core the island of Cyprus had little charm; she had dreamed of a brilliant career for her only son which should open to him the best that Venice could give and she was not satisfied. "There is no fault with that dear child," she said; "and as thy bride if this had been I could have loved her well.
The Madonna be praised, the Chamberlain of the Queen was a man of resource; the people of the cities were devoted to her, and the end might be nearer than seemed possible. The Admiral was impatient for the conference with Bernardini who had implored him to come without delay. "At all hazards we shall hold the city-gate," the Chamberlain had written in the first hours of that dark dawn.
If peasants, and shopkeepers, and monks, priests, beggars, and hoi polloi generally, possess the pavement, overhead every balcony, gallery, terrace, and casement, is filled with company, representatives of the historic families of Lucca, the Manfredi, Possenti, Navascoes, Bernardini, dal Portico, Bocella, Manzi, da Gia, Orsetti, Ruspoli feudal names dear to native ears.
"Now?" his Mother urged. "There may be some scheme behind it, and I would we were there. She hath none of her own beside her, if trouble should come." "She hath Dama Margherita who loveth her well." "Dama Margherita," Bernardini echoed, and a feeling of peace came over him. But the Lady Beata sat pondering, in troubled silence. What could it mean?
"What sayest thou of the Senator Aluisi Bernardini that he is no loss to Venice?" "Nay, nay: he is one that Venice may not too well spare: a man after her best traditions one for an embassy or any place of power a man to do us honor overgrave and quiet, perchance, for his youth, yet of a courtesy and judgment! and never leaving the thing undone! It is his father again."
Young Civilla, a "golden youth," is so very pressing. He could live with Luisa at Naples a cheap place. They might have gone on for years as a triangular household but for Civilla's carelessness. Civilla would always put out old Bernardini about the dinner.
Dama Margherita ordered of the guards, pointing to the closely barred windows. "Strong wine and one of Her Majesty's ladies to aid me I may not leave her for an instant. The Lady of the Bernardini were best will your Grace give the order? We must needs save her life while she hath yet a favor to grant."
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