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During the closing days of the year Cardinal Sanseverino and Cæsar presented some plays. The one given by Cæsar was an eclogue, with rustic scenery, in which the shepherd sang the praises of the young pair, and of Duke Ercole, and the Pope as Ferrara's protector. The first day of the new year was celebrated with great pomp.
"I have to tell you that I have spent five francs of that money," he said, speaking to Regina. "But it was spent for you. I found a good monk, and I gave him the five francs to say three masses for your soul. The masses were said in August, and now it is November, and you are still alive!" "Go!" cried Marcello, understanding, and advancing upon him once more. "I go," answered Ercole hoarsely.
It cannot be done." Without another word he turned abruptly and was going to leave the room, when Marcello stopped him authoritatively. "Come here, Ercole!" he cried, as the man was disappearing into the entry. "Did you speak to me, sir?" Ercole inquired, stopping in the doorway. "Yes. Shut the door and come here." Ercole obeyed with evident reluctance.
But is she not divine! What beauty! What a grace!" "Why, Signor Ercole, one would think you had begotten her yourself. She is a pretty creature certainly. What a smile she has!" "Eh bene, Signori miei! Are you satisfied? Are you content? Have we done well?" said the little man, buzzing off to another group. "Che vi pare? Is she up to the mark, or is she not?" "Bravo, Signor Ercole!
"On the 29th of December, 1490," writes the diarist of Ferrara, "Madonna Beatrice, daughter of Duke Ercole, went to Milan to marry Signor Lodovico Sforza, accompanied by her mother, Leonora Duchess of Ferrara; and also by Messer Sigismondo, her uncle" the duke's younger brother, Cardinal d'Este "and her brother, Don Alfonso, who went to bring home his bride, Madonna Anna, sister of the Duke of Milan and daughter of Galeazzo, and he rode in a sledge because the Po was frozen."
"Is that your affair?" he growled menacingly. "You are over-bold, sir stranger, to seek a quarrel with me, and over-pert to tell me how I shall discharge my captaincy. By the Passion! You shall be punished." "Punished I?" echoed Francesco, on whose brow there now descended a scowl as black as Ercole's own. "Aye, punished, young sir. Ercole Fortemani is my name."
"Nay, Signora, it is in truth I who have to apologize; it is not yet one o'clock, it is not much past twelve! And I feel that I am guilty of an unwarrantable intrusion. But I hoped for the opportunity of having a few words of conversation before the hour named for our little business with our good Signor Ercole.
Gore's useful Catalogue of Computed Binaries, including fifty-nine entries, presented to the Royal Irish Academy, June 9, 1890. Few have done more towards supplying the deficiency of materials than the late Baron Ercole Dembowski of Milan.
Among the Italian princes who at that period either sent ambassadors or came in person to Rome to render homage to the new Pope was the hereditary prince of Ferrara. In all Italy there was no other court so brilliant as that of Ercole d'Este and his spouse Eleonora of Aragon, a daughter of King Ferdinand of Naples. She, however, died about this time; namely, October 11, 1493.
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