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262 received with en til u- Bisism. 262 REIGN AND DEATH OF PHILIP. PART person he might with some reason distrust, would '- — not be the less inclined to his rule, after having tasted the bitterness of anarchy. In his reply, therefore, after briefly expressing a decent regret at the untimely death of his son-in-law, and his undoubting confidence in the loyalty of the Cas- tilians to their queen, his daughter, he prudently intimates that he retains nothing but kindly recol- lections of his ancient subjects, and promises to use ' all possible despatch in adjusting the affairs of Na- ples, that he may again return to them. ^^ Ferdinand After this, thc king resumed his voyage, and having touched at several places on the coast, in all which he was received with great enthusiasm, arrived before the capital of his new dominions in the latter part of October. All were anxious, says the great Tuscan historian of the time, to behold the prince, wiio had acquired a mighty reputation throughout Europe for his victories both over Chris- tian and infidel ; and whose name was everywhere revered for the wisdom and equity, with which he had ruled in his own kingdom. They looked to his coming, therefore, as an event fraught with impor- tance, not merely to Naples, but to all Italy, where his personal presence and authority might do so much to heal existing feuds, and establish perma- 29 Ti. Marinen, Cosas Memora- "Tiiciimqne putnvit blcs, iol . 187.- Ziu->icr:i, Aniiales de "''"" "^^;^,^ T1Z7' ' '""■"'"' """ JSevilla, tiilo laOO. — Peler lI:u tyr, EfTudit, geinilusque expressit pectore la- Opus Kpist.,eiiisl. 317. — Gomez, ^, '°- De Hel)us Gestis, f.,1. <i8, 09, 71. ^"" tn'ii"""" ^"'""' "°"''"* Shall we wroilir Ferdiiiaiul liuicil Gaudiu, quam lacrymis." by applyiii": to him the pertinent I'lmraalia, lit*. 9. verses of Lucan, on a soiuewiiat .similar occasion ?