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[26] Dumont, Corps Diplomatique, tom. iv. no 40, pp. 72-74.

[27] These dependencies did not embrace, however, the half of Granada and the West Indies, as supposed by Mons. Gaillard, who gravely a.s.sures us, that ”Les etats conquis par Ferdinand etoient conquetes de communaute, dont la moitie appartenoit au mari, et la moitie aux enfans.” (Rivalite, tom. iv. p. 306.) Such are the gross misconceptions of fact, on which this writer's _speculations_ rest!

[28] Zurita, a.n.a.les, tom. vi. lib. 6, cap. 19.--Mariana, Hist. de Espana, tom. ii. lib. 28, cap. 16.

[29] Abarca, Reyes de Aragon, tom. ii. rey 30, cap. 15, sec. 8.--Zurita, a.n.a.les, tom. vi. lib. 6, cap. 21.--Guicciardini, Istoria, lib. 7.

He received much more unequivocal intimation in a letter from Ferdinand, curious as showing that the latter sensibly felt the nature and extent of the sacrifices he was making. ”You,” says he to Philip, ”by lending yourself to be the easy dupe of France, have driven me most reluctantly into a second marriage; have stripped me of the fair fruits of my Neapolitan conquests,” etc. He concludes with this appeal to him. ”Sit satis, fili, pervagatum; redi in te, si filius, non hostis accesseris; his non obstantibus, mi filius, amplexabere. Magna est paternae vis naturae.”

Philip may have thought his father-in-law's late conduct an indifferent commentary on the ”paternae vis naturae.” See the king's letter quoted by Peter Martyr in his correspondence with the count of Tendilla. Opus Epist., epist 293.

[30] Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1506.--Zurita, a.n.a.les, tom. vi. lib. 6, cap. 23.--Mariana, Hist. de Espana, tom. ii. lib. 28, cap, 16.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 292.--Zurita has transcribed the whole of this dutiful and most loving epistle. Ubi supra.

Guicciardini considers Philip as only practising the lessons he had learned in Spain, ”le arti Spagnuole.” (Istoria, lib. 7.) The phrase would seem to have been proverbial with the Italians, like the ”Punica fides,”

which their Roman ancestors fastened on the character of their African enemy;--perhaps with equal justice.

[31] Joanna, according to Sandoval, displayed much composure in her alarming situation. When informed by Philip of their danger, she attired herself in her richest dress, securing a considerable sum of money to her person, that her body, if found, might be recognized, and receive the obsequies suited to her rank. Hist. del Emp. Carlos V., tom. i. p. 10.

[32] Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. 204--Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1506.--St. Gelais, Hist. de Louys XII., p. 186.--Bacon, Hist. of Henry VII., Works, vol. v. pp. 177-179.--Guicciardini, Istoria, lib. 7.--Rymer, Foedera, tom. xiii. pp. 123-132.

One was a commercial treaty with Flanders, so disastrous as to be known in that country by the name of ”malus intercursus;” the other involved the surrender of the unfortunate duke of Suffolk.

[33] Bacon, Hist. of Henry VII., Works, vol. v. p. 179.

[34] Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., bat. 1, quinc. 2, dial. 36.--Memoires de Bayard, chap. 26.

[35] Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 300.--Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., bat. 1, quinc. 2, dial. 36.--Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1506.--Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. 203.

”_Some affirmed_,” says Zurita, ”that Isabella, before appointing her husband to the regency, exacted an oath from him, that he would not marry a second time.” (a.n.a.les, tom. v. lib. 5, cap. 84.) This improbable story, so inconsistent with the queen's character, has been transcribed with more or less qualification by succeeding historians from Mariana to Quintana.

Robertson repeats it without any qualification at all. See History of Charles V., vol. ii. p. 6.

[36] ”Quisque enim in spes suas p.r.o.nus et expeditus, commodo serviendum,”

says Giovio, borrowing the familiar metaphor, ”et orientem solem potius quam occidentem adorandum esse dict.i.tabat.” Vitae Ill.u.s.t. Virorum, p. 278.

[37] Zurita, a.n.a.les, tom. vi. lib. 6, cap. 29, 30.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 57.--Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. 204.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 304, 305.--Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1506.-- Sandoval, Hist. del Emp. Carlos V., tom. i. p. 10.

[38] Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 306, 308, 309.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 59.--Giovio, Vitae Ill.u.s.t. Virorum, p. 278.

[39] ”Nil benignius Philippo in terris, nullus inter orbis principes animosior, inter juvenes pulchrior,” etc. (Opus Epist., epist. 285.) In a subsequent letter he thus describes the unhappy predicament of the young prince; ”Nescit hic juvenis, nescit quo se vertat, hinc avaris, illinc ambitiosis, atque utrimque vafris hominibus circ.u.mseptus alienigena, bonae naturae, apertique animi. Trahetur in diversa, perturbabitur ipse atque obtundetur. Omnia confundentur. Utinam vana praedicem!” Epist. 308.

[40] Zurita, a.n.a.les, tom. vi. lib. 7, cap. 2.

[41] Opus Epist., epist. 308.

[42]

”Ipsae amicos res optimae pariunt, adversae probant.”

Pub. Syrus.

[43] Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 306, 311.--Robles, Vida de Ximenez, p. 143.--Mariana, Hist. de Espana, tom. ii. lib. 28, cap. 19.--Lanuza, Historias, tom. i. lib. 1, cap. 19.--Sandoval, Hist. del Emp. Carlos V., tom. i. p. 10.