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Updated: May 19, 2025
He does not talk big nor swell himself with boasting, but simply, openly, honestly acts and speaks." But all his wooing came to naught; another man wedded the fair Cunigunde, and the coming storm of Romish wrath left Hutten no opportunity to turn his attention elsewhere. The old Pope was now dead, and one of the famous family of Medici, in Florence, had succeeded him as Leo the Tenth.
Money enough give her, but not too much. For riches I do not seek; and as for blood and birth, she is already noble to whom Hutten gives his hand." A young woman Cunigunde Glauburg was found, and she seemed to meet all requirements. But the mother of the bride was not pleased with the arrangement. Hutten was a "dangerous man," she said, "a revolutionist."
"I hope," said Hutten, "that when she comes to know me, and finds in me nothing restless, nothing mutinous, my studies full of humor and wit, that she will look more kindly on me." To a brother of Cunigunde he writes: "Hutten has not conquered many cities, like some of these iron-eaters, but through many lands has wandered with the fame of his name.
One son, Onofrius, went for a soldier, became attached to Maximilian's train, and received a knighthood; another, Ulrich, became M.D. at Siena, but died immediately afterwards; another, John, became a parish priest. Of the daughters three remained in the world; one, Elizabeth, married; another, Cunigunde, died of plague caught in nursing some nuns.
"And if I do," whispered Vera in reply, "will you have me put in a convent like Cunigunde?" "Do you think I am a monster like those bad parents? It's wicked, Vera, to think such things of me." "I know it would be wicked, Grandmother, and I don't think any such thing. But why warn me with such a silly book?" "How should I warn you and guard you, my dear. Tell me and set my mind at rest."
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