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So engrossed was Don Egidio that for some moments I stood behind him unobserved; and when he rose and faced me, grief had left so little room for any minor emotion that he looked at me almost without surprise. "Don Egidio," I said, "I have a carriage waiting for you at the gate. You must come home with me." He nodded quietly and I drew his hand through my arm. He turned back to the grave.
Milan is up already; and there is a rumor that Charles Albert is moving. This year the spring rains will be red in Italy." "In your absence not a breath shall touch her!" "And if I never come back to defend her? They hate her as hell hates, Egidio! They kept repeating, 'He is of her own age and youth draws youth . She is in their way, Egidio!" "Consider, my son.
That he was a prince of the Church I saw for myself; but I was far from being prepared for the revelation of his true eminence never dreaming that a man of the humble position of Doctor Fifanti would entertain a guest so exalted. He was no less a person than the Lord Egidio Oberto Gambara, Cardinal of Brescia, Governor of Piacenza and Papal Legate to Cisalpine Gaul.
I walked on to the gate; but before I had reached it I heard her step behind me. "Don Egidio!" she called; and I turned back. "You are coming to say mass in the chapel to-morrow morning?" "That is the Count's wish." She wavered a moment. "I am not well enough to walk up to the village this afternoon," she said at length. "Will you come back later and hear my confession here?"
Not a doubt but that some industrious scribe in Piacenza with a grudge against Gambara, would set down what was the talk of the town; and hereafter, it is not to be doubted, the murder of Astorre Fifanti for the vilest of all motives will be added to the many crimes of Egidio Gambara, that posterity may execrate his name even beyond its already rich enough deserts.
"You are insubordinate," was all he answered him, and then to the two men-at-arms behind the lieutenant "Ho, there!" he called. "Bring out the guard. I am Egidio Gambara, your Governor." So calm and firm and full of assurance was his tone, so unquestionable his right to command them, that the men sprang instantly to obey him. "What would you do, my lord?" quoth the officer, and he seemed daunted.
There was he of Scanno dead, I doubt not, by this time that simple-hearted venerable with whom I whiled away the long evenings at the shrine of Sant' Egidio, gazing over the placid lake below, or up stream, at the dusky houses of Scanno theatrically ranged against their hill-side.
Bernabo and Galeazzo, his nephews, succeeded him; but Galeazzo soon after died, leaving Giovan Galeazzo, who shared the state with Bernabo. Charles, king of Bohemia, was then emperor, and the pontificate was occupied by Innocent VI., who sent Cardinal Egidio, a Spaniard, into Italy.
It was doubtless to this picturesque accident that Don Egidio owed the mingling of ease and simplicity that gave an inimitable charm to his stout shabby presence. It was as though some wild mountain-fruit had been transplanted to the Count's orchards and had mellowed under cultivation without losing its sylvan flavor. I have never seen the social art carried farther without suggestion of artifice.
Among her intimate acquaintances were also the famous Latinist, Cortesi; the youthful Sardoleto, the familiar of Cardinal Cibò; young Aldo Manuzio; the intellectual brothers Rafael and Mario Maffei of Volterra; and Egidio of Viterbo, who subsequently became famous as a pulpit orator and was made a cardinal. The last maintained his connection with Lucretia while she was Duchess of Ferrara.
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