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388 388 DEATH OF GONSALVO. PART n. His body transported to Granada. experienced master. The commons, however, who had felt the good effect of this curb on the nobility, in their own personal security, held his memory in reverence as that of a national benefactor.^^ Ferdinand's remains were interred, agreeably to his orders, in Granada. A few of his most faithful adherents accompanied them ; the greater part be- ing deterred by a prudent caution of giving um- brage to Charles.^^ The funeral train, however, was swelled by contributions from the various towns through which it passed. At Cordova, es- pecially, it is worthy of note, that the marquis of Priego, who had slender obligations to Ferdinand, came out with all his household to pay the last melancholy honors to his remains. They were re- ceived with similar respect in Granada, where the people, while they gazed on the sad spectacle, says Zurita, were naturally affected as they called to mind the pomp and splendor of his triumphal entry on the first occupation of the Moorish capital.^" By his dying injunctions, all unnecessary osten- tation was interdicted at his funeral. His body was laid by the side of Isabella's in the monastery of the Alhambra ; and the year following,^^ when 38 Zurita, Anales, torn. vi. lib. 10, cap. 100. — Blancas, Commen- tarii, p. 275. — Lanuza, Historias, torn. i. lib. 1, cap. 25. 39 Zurita, Anales. ubi supra. The honest Martyr was one of the few who paid this last tribute of respect to their ancient master. " Ego ut mortuo debitum prae- stem," says he, in a letter to Prince Charles's physician, " corpus ejus exanime, Granatam, sepulcliro se- demdestinatam,coinitabor." Opus Epist., epist. 566. 40 Anales, torn. vi. lib. 10, cap. 100. — Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 572. — Abarca, Reyes de Arapon, torn. ii. rey 30, cap. 24. — Carbajal, Anales, MS., afio 1516, cap. 5. 41 Mem de la Acad, de Hist., torn. vi. Ilust. 21. According to Pedraza, this event did not take place till 1525. An-