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Amongst those who watched all his movements with jealousy and envy, and who were silently preparing instruments for his destruction, was Joseph Martinengo, a Piedmontese count belonging to the prince's suite, whom G himself had formerly promoted, as an inoffensive creature, devoted to his interests, for the purpose of supplying his own place in attending upon the pleasures of the prince an office which he began to find irksome, and which he willingly exchanged for more useful employment.
The whole affair was arranged with the most profound secrecy between Martinengo and his master, so that G had not the most distant presentiment of the impending storm. He continued wrapped in this fatal security until the dreadful moment in which he was destined, from being the object of universal homage and envy, to become that of the deepest commiseration.
Reflections on the object of war and the use of victory Niccolo reinforces his army The duke of Milan endeavors to recover the services of Count Francesco Sforza Suspicions of the Venetians They acquire Ravenna The Florentines purchase the Borgo San Sepolcro of the pope Piccinino makes an excursion during the winter The count besieged in his camp before Martinengo The insolence of Niccolo Piccinino The duke in revenge makes peace with the league Sforza assisted by the Florentines.
That which has caused thousands of his predecessors to stumble on the slippery path of royal favor was also the cause of G 's fall, immoderate self-confidence. The secret intimacy between his creature, Martinengo, and his royal master gave him no uneasiness; he readily resigned a privilege which he despised and which had never been the object of his ambition.
The one defect acknowledged by his biographer was his partiality for women. Early in life he married Tisbe, of the noble house of the Brescian Martinenghi, who bore him one daughter, Caterina, wedded to Gasparre Martinengo. Two illegitimate daughters, Ursina and Isotta, were recognized and treated by him as legitimate.
The history of his imprisonment was as follows: "Yesterday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Madame Alessandria, Count Martinengo, and myself, got into a gondola. We went to Padua to see the opera, intending to return to Venice afterwards.
My good humour did not prevent my companion having some bad quarters of an hour. He was in love with Madame Alessandria, who had been a singer, and was either the mistress or the wife of his friend Martinengo; and he should have deemed himself happy, but the happier a lover is, so much the more his unhappiness when he is snatched from the beloved object.
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