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280 280 FERDlNAxXD'S RETURN AND REGENCY. PART the larders of Savona were filled with the choicest '- — game, and its cellars well stored with the delicious wines of Corsica, Languedoc, and Provence. Among the followers of Louis were the marquis of Mantua, the brave La Palice, the veteran D'Aubignj, and many others of renown, who had so lately measured swords with the Spaniards on the fields of Italy, and who now vied with each other in rendering them these more grateful, and no less honorable, offices of chivalry. '^ As the gallant D'Aubigny was confined to his apartment by the gout, Ferdinand, who had always held his talents and conduct in high esteem, com- plimented him by a visit in person. But no one excited such general interest and attention as Gon- salvo de Cordova, who was emphatically the hero of the day. At least, such is the testimony of Guic- ciardini, who will not be suspected of undue par- tiality. Many a Frenchman there had had bitter experience of his military prowess. Many others had grown familiar with his exploits in the exagger- ated reports of their countrymen. They had been taught to regard him with mingled feelings of fear and hatred, and could scarcely credit their senses, as they beheld the bugbear of their imaginations the sixteenth century. A part of republished, with all the lights of his works still remains in manu- editorial erudition, script. That which is printed re- '^ D'Auton,Hist. deLouysXIL, tains the same form, I believe, in part. 3, chap. 38. — Bernaldez, which it was piven to the public by Reyes Cat61icos, MS., ubi supra. — Godefroy, in the bcgiiininfr of the Bembo, Istoria A'^iniziana, lib. 7. — seventeenth century ; while many St. Gelais, Hist, de Louys XII.. an inferior chronicler and memoir- p. 204. monger has been published and