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Updated: May 31, 2025
New Year's Day at Court The royal tokens A singular audience A proposition Birth of the Princess Christine Public festivities A ballet on horseback The King resolves to humble the Duc de Bouillon Arguments of the Queen Policy of Henry The Court proceeds to Torcy Surrender of Bouillon The sovereigns enter Sedan Rejoicings of the citizens State entry into Paris The High Court of Justice assigns to the ex-Queen Marguerite the county of Auvergne The "Te Deum" Marguerite makes a donation of her recovered estates to the Dauphin Inconsistencies of Marguerite Jealousy of the Queen of Madame de Moret Increasing coldness of the King towards that lady The frail rivals Princely beacons -Indignation of the Queen Narrow escape of the King and Queen Gratitude of the Queen to her preserver Insolent pleasantry of the Marquise de Verneuil A disappointment compensated Marriage of the Duc de Bar The King invites the Duchess of Mantua to become sponsor to the Dauphin, and the Duc de Lorraine to the younger Princess The Mantuan suite Preparations at Notre-Dame The plague in Paris The Court removes to Fontainebleau The royal christenings Increase of the plague Royal disappointments The Duchesse de Nevers Discourtesy of the King Dignity of the Duchess.
But, as we have already noted, in this "Orfeo," performed at the Mantuan court, there was so much of the material of a genuine lyric drama that it now becomes our business to examine more closely the character of the musical features and the manner of the performance. The points at which music must have been heard are clearly indicated by the text.
They took more and more credit to themselves for a reasoned and definite motive, in the light of their companion's enthusiasm for the place, and its charm began for them with the drive from the station through streets whose sentiment was both Italian and French, and where there was a yellowish cast in the gray of the architecture which was almost Mantuan.
Another day a single-handed contest between a Milanese and a Mantuan man-at-arms was held in the courtyard of the castle, and won by the Mantuan, and Lodovico gave him a satin vest with a gold fringe and skirt of silver cloth, and the Marquis of Mantua and others made him fine presents."
You say that it is "right" to like Virgil, and yet you admit that you admire the Mantuan, as the Scotch editor joked, "wi' deeficulty." I, too, must admit that my liking for much of Virgil's poetry is not enthusiastic, not like the admiration expressed, for example, by Mr. Frederic Myers, in whose "Classical Essays" you will find all that the advocates of the Latin singer can say for him.
This new name was adopted by subsequent writers, and among others by our Spenser. More than a century afterwards Mantuan published his Bucolics with such success that they were soon dignified by Badius with a comment, and, as Scaliger complained, received into schools, and taught as classical; his complaint was vain, and the practice, however injudicious, spread far and continued long.
The celebrated composer of frottole, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was for some time in the service of the Mantuan court. It was formerly believed that he went to Mantua in 1494, but Signer Bertolotti unearthed a document which showed that his father was engaged there in 1487. From which the learned Italian investigator reached the conclusion that the young Tromboncino was with his parent.
Joyous transports were afforded me by the study of the life of that Saint Luigi of the noble Mantuan House of Gonzaga in whom I saw an ideal to be emulated, since he seemed to me to be much in my own case and of my own estate who had counted the illusory greatness of this world well lost so that he might win the bliss of Paradise.
Petrarch, Mantuan, Marot, Spenser were more than mere imitators of Vergil or of one another; they wrote in a particular form because it answered to particular requirements, and they fashioned it in the using.
It is not without significance that the first modern eclogues were from the same pen as the sonnet 'Fontana di dolore, albergo d'ira, expressive of the shame with which earnest sons of the Church contemplated the captivity of the holy father at Avignon; for thus on the very threshold of Arcadia we are met with those bitter denunciations of ecclesiastical corruption which strike so characteristic a note in the works of the satirical Mantuan, and seem so out of place in the songs of Spenser and Milton.
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