[34] Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 1023, art. 21. There is a copy of this MS. in the library of Newbattle Abbey, Scotland.
[35] Castiglione was related through his mother to several of the Urbino stars,—the Fregosi, Trivulzio, and Emilia Pia.
[*36] For the biography of Castiglione, see Marliani in the Cominana edition of the Opere Volgari (Padua, 1733), and Serassi, in Poesie volgari e latine del Castiglione (Roma, 1760), as well as the following works:—
- Mazzuchelli, Baldassare Castiglione (Narducci, Roma).
- Martinati, Notizie Stor. bibliogr. intorno al Conte B.C. (Firenze, 1890). Cf. on this Cian, in Giorn. St. della Lett. It., XVII., 113.
- Bufardeci, La vita letter. del c. B.C. (Ragusa, 1900). Cf. on this Giorn. St. della Lett. It., XXXVIII., 203.
- Cian, Candidature nuziali di B.C. (Venezia, 1892, per nozze Salvioni-Taveggia).
[*37] He was educated at Milan, where he probably learned Latin from Giorgio Merula, and Greek from Demetrio Calcondila, and cultivated at the same time the poesia volgare (see Cian, Un Cod. ignoto, cited on [p. 44], [note *1]). While he was still very young he was attached to the Court of Il Moro. His father died in 1499 from a wound got at the battle of the Taro. He returned to Casatico on the fall of Sforza, and then joined Marchese Francesco.
[*38] He was in England in 1506. Guidobaldo died in 1508. It was to Duke Francesco he attached himself on his return.
[*39] On the various designs for Castiglione's marriage, see Cian, op. cit., p. 46, note 1.
[*40] He died on February 7th, not 2nd.
[*41] Giuliano was not so bad a poet himself. Cf. on this subject Serassi, in the Annotazioni to the Tirsi of Castiglione at stanza 43, and the five sonnets contained in Cod. Palat., 206 (I Cod. Palat. della Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, vol. I., fasc. 4), and the six of Cod. Magliabech. II., I., 60 (Bartoli, I manoscritti della Bib. Nazionale di Firenze, tom. I., p. 38).