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Cornaro promised to secure his pardon, but eventually exchanged him for a bishopric. This remarkable proceeding illustrates the manners of the Papal Court. The cardinal wanted a benefice for one of his followers, and the Pope wished to get his son's enemy once more into his power. So the two ecclesiastics bargained together, and by mutual kind offices attained their several ends.
"The spirit which dictated Betsy Thoughtless is evaporated; the fire of the author scarcely sparkles. Even two meagre volumes could not be filled, without a little History of Melinda Fairfax; without the Tale of Cornaro and the Turk, a tale told twice, in verse and prose, a tale already often published, and as often read. Alas, poor author! we catch with regret thy parting breath."
"And if the matter hath an interest for your Majesty," he continued, "our great-grandfather on our father's side, was that Marco Cornaro who was Doge of Venice; and the most noble Lady Fiorenza, mother to the child Caterina and wife to my brother Marco, was grand-daughter to Comnene, Emperor of Trebizonde.
The mimic court in the Palazzo Cornaro, under the supervision of her monitors of Venice, was already attracting distinguished strangers for the element of romance in her position made the salon of the future Queen of Cyprus the feature of Venetian social life; and long hours of eager study with masters of the many tongues spoken in the Cyprian court alternating with the teachings of her mother's noble friend, the Patriarch, as he sought to familiarize her with the early Christian story of her distant island, proved the quick grasp of her mind giving dangerous hints of strength which, if disregarded, might thwart the moulding purpose of the Signoria.
She sprang up, attempting to reach a silken cord that swung upon the wall near her; but Cornaro raised his hand above her and lightly tossed it aside. "No one shall come between us until I have thy promise: it lieth between me and thee." "I need some one to help me," she implored; "and Aluisi is of our Casa Cornaro, he would understand."
"Catharine Cornaro was by adoption a Venetian," returned Strozzi, "and since you have willingly donned her dress, I must accept it as an earnest of your consent to appear as the wife of a Venetian noble." To this taunt Laura made no reply. She gave her hand to the countess, and they passed into the corridors together.
A swaying figure in a passing gondola glanced up to the balcony of the old Palazzo Cornaro and the young girl hastily fled, not pausing until she had reached her own little chamber, looking on an inner court the only sanctuary that she could call her own, in all this great ancestral palace, she, the future Queen of Cyprus. Had any one heard her murmur those words?
I remember some rumor in the Broglio, before this matter of Cyprus came uppermost, that the houses would have been allied a marriage between the little Caterina and the cousin Aluisi a dispensation to be gotten from His Holiness. It would have been well for the estates and the Casa Cornaro."
Ricketts gives the Pitti "Concert" and the Caterina Cornaro to Titian without a tremor. Our own National Gallery "S. Liberate" is not mentioned by some at all; the Paris "Concert Champêtre," in which most of the judges believe so absolutely, Signor Lionello Venturi gives to Piombo. The Giovanelli picture and the Castel Franco altar-piece alone remain above suspicion in every book.
"It seemeth not easy to translate his choice. What sayeth the proud Lady of the Bernardini? For it is less honor." "One knoweth not; she being of Casa Cornaro, of the elder branch, and, like her son, of few words and great discretion. But she had lately spoken with me of this embassy to France, wishing that her son might hold it, thinking him well fitted for the place.
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