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Many famous humanists, who at the time of Lucretia's arrival were still children or youths for example, the Giraldi and genial Celio Calcagnini, who dedicated an epithalamium to her on her appearance in the city were members of the Ferrarese university. All of these men were welcome at the court of the Este because they were accomplished and versatile.
"If this is what conies of reading your Dante, I advise the 'Song of Solomon," she said. "I have never opened the 'Divine Comedy' still less the 'Vita Nova'; but I consider the author a donkey, and am sure that was the opinion of his Donna Beatrice." Count Giraldi, for some reason which I could not then comprehend, did not care to talk of my affair.
I heard Giraldi's breath come short and whistling through his fine nose; I heard Semifonte breathing through his mouth shorter breaths he was panting. Count Giraldi spoke, using great command of himself, measuring his words. "I think I will tell you the facts," he said, "I think that will be best. You can then judge my actions, and, as a reasonable man, govern your own by them.
In Count Giraldi and myself you have, I take leave to say, two of the most complaisant friends in Europe; yet what are you doing? Really, Don Francis, you are exorbitant. Pray, do you propose to us to keep Aurelia here in order that she may listen to your poetry, and then to return from your intellectual feast to the arms of your little peasant? And Aurelia is to know it and acquiesce?
I kept my course, however, as if they were no concern of mine, and made room for them to pass me on the side of the wall. But the first of them stopped in front of me. "A fine night, Don Francis," he said. It was Count Giraldi.
It is true that when we speak of the bourgeois spirit of the novella on the one hand, and the 'ideal' pastoral on the other, it is well to remember that the author of the Decameron also wrote the first modern pastoral romance; that the century and country which saw the publication of the Arcadia, the Aminta, and the Pastor fido, also welcomed the work of Fortini, Giraldi, and Bandello; and that to Margaret of Navarre, the imitator of Sannazzaro and patroness of Marot, we are likewise indebted for the Heptameron.
At Mirandola, which was governed by insignificant princes of the house of Pico, lived in the year 1533 a poor scholar, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, who had fled from the sack of Rome to the hospitable hearth of the aged Giovanni Francesco Pico, nephew of the famous Giovanni; the discussions as to the sepulchral monument which the prince was constructing f or himself gave rise to a treatise, the dedication of which bears the date of April of this year.
There were but three words, "Si, si, si Aurelia," I read, and turning my face to the Heavens, thanked God that I was absolved by the dear subject of my crimes. Transformed, indeed, I trod upon air between the Prato and the Palazzo Giraldi. I was told that his Excellency was visiting the Contessa Galluzzo. I sailed, I soared, I flashed over Arno and into the house at the Porta San Giorgio.
Vasari's story of the Prior's head serving for that of Judas is related with less colour, but probably more truth, in the Discourses of G. B. Giraldi, who says that when Leonardo had finished the painting with the exception of the head of Judas, the friars complained to the Duke that he had left it in this state for more than a year.
"She's a leader of the mode, I can assure you," said he, "and any little difficulty you may have had in that quarter, you may be sure, will be none now. Count Giraldi will, no doubt, be enchanted to present you there. I recommend you to keep in with the count." I felt that I could not love Count Giraldi any more.
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