"To Florence."
She dwells there even as I write these chronicles, in the Medicean villa of Castello, and as at first she dared not keep her little son with her (the men of the Medici being banished from Florence), she confided him, still habited in girlish disguise, to the care of a community of nuns, who kept a seminary for the daughters of noble families. But at length, on the restoration of the Medici, he issued from that retreat, and is now being bred to the profession of arms, in the which he bids fair to realise the ambitions confided to me as we rode from Forlì, what time I deemed him the most unmannerly little princess which it had been my lot to meet.
CHAPTER II
THE FINDING OF APOLLO
(AN ESCAPADE OF BAZZI'S)
I
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (called Sodoma) to Giulio Romano, painter and architect at Mantua.
Good Friend and sometime Pot-Comrade: