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Updated: September 15, 2025
The port was gay with trading ships and colors of many lands; but Mutio di Costanzo studied it with frowning brows, noting only the absence of his own galleys of Cyprus, which lay, unmanned in the dock-yards by order of King Janus the Second!
Because of these rumors Mutio di Costanzo, Admiral of Cyprus, had ordered messages of warning sent to the chief citadels, as he had been able, before he left Nikosia; and also because of them, he rode to-day with a so scanty following not having dared to leave any points of vantage without sufficient guard.
The delicate form of the Italian sonnet, as copied by Sidney from Bembo and Molza and Costanzo, contained within it the exotic and exquisite ideal passion of the "Vita Nuova" and Petrarch. With the bright, undulating stanza Spenser received from Ariosto and Tasso the richly coloured spirit of the Italian descriptive epic.
"Your Excellencies are expected: the citizens await you:" it was said in a tone that meant more than courtesy: Mutio di Costanzo scanned him narrowly. "From whom dost hold thy orders?" he asked. "From the Signor Bernardini, commander of the city," the man answered readily. "Then speak."
"But did you not say that if he survived and was restored to strength you would then determine the course his life should take?" Still smiling, he produced his comfit-box, and raised the lid. "That is a thing he seems to have determined for himself," he answered smoothly he could be smooth as a cat upon occasion, could this bastard of Costanzo Sforza.
After the death of his wife, Alessandro Sforza married Sveva Montefeltre, a daughter of Guidantonio of Urbino. After a happy reign he died April 3, 1473, leaving his possessions to his son. A year later Costanzo Sforza married Camilla Marzana d'Aragona, a beautiful and spirituelle princess of the royal house of Naples. He himself was brilliant and liberal.
"Yes, signore!" he replies to a sceptical Englishman who presses him hard with the glory of "the Protectress," "yes, signore, the Madonna is great for the fisher-folk; she gives them fish. But fish are poor things after all and bring little money. It is San Costanzo who gives us the wine, the good red wine which is the wealth of the island.
Then he folded the other orders without a glance, they touched upon minor points of vantage and entered properly into his scheme the cities of Limisso and, perhaps, of Costanzo but that might be requiring too much of the noble Lord of Costanzo, this could wait; he crumpled it in his hand. As for this Castel Dio d'Amore, it was well. Still another paper he folded in his pouch.
"First, Messer Biancomonte, to discharge my debt. You are, if I am not misinformed, the lord by right of birth of certain lands that bear your name, which suffered sequestration during the reign of the late Costanzo, Tyrant of Pesaro, whose son Giovanni upheld that confiscation. Am I right?" "Your Excellency is very well informed.
He allowed himself a moment's vision of this stately Knight Mutio de Costanzo, with his escort of cavaliers the forty of his noble house entitled to wear the Golden Spurs surrendering his holdings at the Queen's command, to those whom Rizzo should elect Rizzo, who had heard himself called "that parvenu of Naples" and the vision filled him with delight.
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