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His own was, "Unless I fear Justice I need not fear Borso. Dante saw the death of his lady to be just. Courage then!" "Mistress Castaneve," said Duke Borso, "you declare yourself innocent?" "Excellency, I do, I do! Ah, Mother of God!" The panic was creeping up Olimpia's legs, to loosen the joints of her knees. The Judge turned half. "Mistress Bellaroba, you also declare yourself innocent?"
Borso turned again to Bellaroba, but kept the other in his eye. "Now, missy, what had you to do with Captain Mosca's headpiece?" "Nothing, my lord." "What!" he roared. "Did you not cut it off?" "No, my lord." "Why not, girl? He was your enemy, I suppose?" "I think he was, my lord." "Think! Do you not know it? What did he want of you?" "He wanted to make me bad, my lord." "Ah!
Two years afterwards, Borso, who had been only Marquis of Ferrara, received its ducal title from the Pope; and on going to Rome to be invested with his new honours, the name of our poet is again found among the adorners of his state.
Many of the ruling dynasties of Italy bore this stain the Sforza, the Malatesta, the Bentivoglio, and the Aragonese of Naples; even the brilliant Borso, the first Duke of Ferrara, was the illegitimate brother of his successor, Ercole. Lucretia, however, was the daughter of a Pope, the child of a priest, and this, in the eyes of the Este, constituted her disgrace.
Bellaroba covered her eyes. Teofilo Calcagnini shook the tears from his. Borso sat on immovably, working his jaws. It is at this point that the conduct of Angioletto touches the sublime a position never accorded by posterity to his verse.
Duke and my brother, if we were to be spied upon by any of our Court just now, what sort of a reverence should we get, think you? Eh, you rogue, as much as we deserve! I will tell you, good Borso, my own poor opinion of these things. A Duke who cannot be dukely in his shirt, a Pope who is but an afflicted biped between the blankets, is no Duke at all, is a Pope by toleration.
"Eh, there he is again," said the old sweep. "What now?" Down came a rat, squeaking for its life, then three in succession, very silent because their necks were wrung. "This is better than a cat any day of the seven," said Sor Beppo. "What a diamond of a poet! He should be crowned with laurel-twigs if I were Duke Borso in all his glory.
"Madonna," was his second venture, when he had recognised the impropriety of his first, "Madonna, I am this moment about to retire " Angioletto, whose eyes had attained their fullest stretch of wonder, opened his mouth but not to speak. He gaped at the lord of the land. "Madonna " Borso began once more. Then the other found his voice "Alas, my lord Duke, it is Madonna I thought to find.
Borso, the first duke, caused his portrait to be painted in a series of historical representations in one of his principal palaces; Hercules I. kept the anniversary of his accession to the throne by a splendid procession, which was compared to the festival of Corpus Christi; an Order, which had nothing in common with medieval chivalry, called the Order of the Golden Spur, was instituted by his court, and conferred upon those who reflected lustre by their deeds or their literary gifts upon the house of Este; while, to crown all, we read at this day on the tower of the cathedral of Ferrara the dedicatory inscription beginning with "To the god Hercules II.," which the complaisant inhabitants had put there, an apotheosis which reminds us of the worst slavery of imperial Rome under Caligula and Domitian.
In this charming retreat, where Borso and Ercole alike loved to escape from the cares of state, we may still see the remnants of these splendid decorations which once adorned these halls: the painted arabesques and stucco frieze of children playing musical instruments, the barrel-vaulted ceilings, and marble doorways with their rows of cherub heads and dolphins.
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