Castruccio ascended10 the hill immediately above the town, to seek for the habitation of Guinigi. The autumnal wind swept over it, scattering12 the fallen leaves of the chestnut13 wood; and the swift clouds, driven over the boundless14 plain, gave it the appearance, as their shadows came and went, of a heaving sea of dusky waters. Castruccio found Guinigi sitting at the door of his house; it was a low-roofed cottage, that seemed more fit for the habitation of a peasant, than of a man bred in camps and palaces. Guinigi himself was about forty years of age: the hardships of war had thinned the locks on his temples before their time, and drawn15 a few lines in his face, beaming as it was with benevolence16. The sparkling intelligence of his eye was tempered by gentleness and wisdom; and the stately mien17 of the soldier had yielded somewhat to his late rustic18 occupations; for, since his exile he had turned his sword to a ploughshare, and he dwelt with much complacency on the change.
As Castruccio first saw him, he was gazing with the most heartfelt and benevolent19 pleasure on his boy, a child of seven years of age, who was busy with the peasants, drawing off wine from the vats21; for it was just the time when the vintage was finished, and the last labours were bestowed22 on the crushed grapes. The youth paused: but for the air of dignity that was visible beneath his rustic dress, he could not have believed that this was his father’s friend; his father, who in exile never forgot that he was a soldier and a knight23. He gave the letter; and, when Guinigi had read it, he embraced the orphan24 son of his old comrade, and welcomed him with a cordiality that warmed the heart of Castruccio. The name of a stranger soon struck the ear of Arrigo, his little son, who came with joy to greet him, bearing a large basket of grapes and figs25. Guinigi was much amused by the evident astonishment26 with which his guest regarded the appearance of the house and its master, and said:— “You come to the dwelling27 of a peasant who eats the bread his own hands have sown; this is a new scene for you, but you will not find it uninstructive. To my eyes, which do not now glance with the same fire as yours, the sight of the bounties28 of nature, and of the harmless peasants who cultivate the earth, is far more delightful29 than an army of knights30 hasting in brilliant array to deluge31 the fields with blood, and to destroy the beneficial hopes of the husbandman. But these are new doctrines32 to you; and you perhaps will never, like me, in the deep sincerity33 of your heart, prefer this lowly cottage to yonder majestic34 castle.”
To say the truth, Castruccio was greatly disappointed. As he had ascended from the town, and saw a gay banner waving from the keep of the castle, as he heard the clash of armour36, and beheld37 the sun-beams glitter on the arms of the centinel, he hoped that he should find his future protector a favourite with the happy chief. He would, he felt, have accosted38 him with more respect, if he had found him a monk39 in the neighbouring monastery40, than a contented41 farmer, a peasant whose narrow views soared not beyond the wine-vat20 and the ox’s stall.
These were the first feelings that occurred to Castruccio; but he soon found that he was introduced to a new world in the society of Guinigi; a world with whose spring of action he could not sympathize, yet which he could not condemn42. It was characterized by a simple yet sublime43 morality, which resting on natural bases, admitted no factitious colouring. Guinigi thought only of the duty of man to man, laying aside the distinctions of society, and with lovely humility44 recognized the affinity45 of the meanest peasant to his own noble mind. Exercising the most exalted46 virtues47, he also cultivated a taste and imagination that dignified48 what the vulgar would term ignoble49, as the common clouds of day become fields of purple and gold, painted by the sun at eve. His fancy only paused, when he would force it to adorn50 with beauty vice51, death, and misery52, when disguised by a kingly robe, by the trappings of a victorious53 army, or the false halo of glory spread over the smoking ruins of a ravaged54 town. Then his heart sickened, and the banners of triumph or the song of victory could not drive from his recollection the varieties of death, and the groans55 of torture that occasion such exultation56 to the privileged murderers of the earth.
When Guinigi and Castruccio became intimate, the youth would reason with him, and endeavour to prove, that in the present distracted state of mankind, it was better that one man should get the upper hand, to rule the rest. “Yes,” said Guinigi, “let one man, if it be forbidden to more than one, get the upper hand in wisdom, and let him teach the rest: teach them the valuable arts of peace and love.”
Guinigi was a strange enthusiast58. Men, like Alexander and other conquerors59, have indulged the hope of subduing60 the world, and spreading by their triumphs refinement61 into its barbarous recesses62. Guinigi hoped, how futilely63! to lay a foundation-stone for the temple of peace among the Euganean hills. He had an overflowing64 affection of soul, that could not confine itself to the person of his son, or the aggrandizement65 of his country, or be spiritualized into a metaphysical adoration66 of ideal beauty. It bestowed itself on his fellow-creatures; and to see them happy, warmed his heart with a pleasure experienced by few. This man, his imaginative flights, his glowing benevolence and his humble67 occupations, were an enigma68 that Castruccio could never solve. But, while he neither sympathized with nor understood him, he quickly loved him with the warmest affection.
Castruccio wished to speak to him of his future destination; Guinigi said, “Your father has recommended you to my counsels, and you must allow me to become acquainted with you, before I can give you advice. You are very young; and we need not hurry. Grant me six months; we will not be idle. We will ramble69 about the country: winter is the peasant’s leisure time, so I am quite at your service. We shall be much together, and will discuss many subjects; and by degrees I shall understand the foundations on which you are to build your future life.”
They travelled to Padua, to lovely Venice, raising its head from the waves of ocean; they rambled70 about the coast for days together, having no other end than to enjoy the beauties of nature. Then, coming nearer home, they climbed the Euganean hills, and penetrated71 their recesses. Guinigi had an ultimate object in view; he wished to impress on the mind of his pupil a love of peace, and a taste for rural pleasures. One day they were on the summit of Monte Selice, a conical hill between Este and Padua, and Guinigi pointed35 to the country around. — “What a Paradise is this!” he said. “Now it is bare; but in the summer, when the corn waves among the trees, and ripening72 grapes shade the roads; when on every side you see happy peasants leading the beautiful oxen to their light work, and the sun, and the air, and the earth are each labouring to produce for man all that is necessary for his support, and the ground is covered with vegetation, and the air quickened into life, it is a spot, on which the Creator of the world might pause, and be pleased with his work. How different was this some years ago! You have heard of Ezzelino the tyrant73 of Padua, under whose auspices74 the rivers ran blood, and the unfortunate peasant found his harvests reaped by the sword of the invading soldier! Look at those peasants on yonder road, conducting their cattle crowned with flowers: habited in their holiday best, and moving in solemn procession; their oxen are going to be blessed by St. Antonio, to ward75 from them the evils of the ensuing seasons. A few years ago, instead of peasants, soldiers marched along that road: their close ranks shewed their excellent discipline; their instruments filled the air with triumphant76 sounds; the knights pricked77 their steeds forward, who arching their proud necks, seemed to exult57 in their destination. What were they about to do? to burn a town, to murder the old, and the helpless, the women, and the children; to destroy the dwellings78 of peace; so that, when they left their cruel work, the miserable79 wretches80 who survived had nothing to shelter them but the bare, black walls, where before their neat cottages had stood.”
Castruccio listened impatiently, and cried:— “Yet who would not rather be a knight, than one of those peasants, whose minds are as grovelling81 as their occupations?”
“That would not I,” replied Guinigi fervently82; “how must the human mind be distorted, which can delight in that which is ill, in preference to the cultivation83 of the earth, and the contemplation of its loveliness! What a strange mistake is it, that a peasant’s life is incompatible84 with intellectual improvement! Alas85! poor wretches; they are too hard-worked now to learn much, and their toil86, uncheered by the applause of their fellow-creatures, appears a degradation87; yet, when I would picture happiness upon earth, my imagination conjures88 up the family of a dweller89 among the fields, whose property is secure, and whose time is passed between labour and intellectual pleasures. Such now is my fate. The evening of my life steals gently on; and I have no regrets for the past, no wish for the future, but to continue as I am.”
“Yes,” cried Castruccio, “You have passed through life, and know what it is; but I would rather, while alive, enter my tomb, than live unknown and unheard of. Is it not fame that makes men gods? Do not urge me to pass my days in indolence; I must act, to be happy, — to be any thing. My father did not wish me to become a farmer and a vinedresser; but to tread in his steps, and go beyond them, and that is my purpose, which I would die to attain90.”
A year passed while Castruccio still lived under the low roof of Guinigi. He found that it was no vain boast, that this noble ate the bread that he had sown: for he saw him hold the plough, trim his vines, and enter into all the labours of the husbandman. There is something picturesque in the toil of an Italian peasant. It is not, as in more northern climates, where cold, and wet, and care are endured, to be scantily91 repaid; and their unceasing anxiety is often terminated by the destruction of their crops through the severity of their climate. Guinigi and his fellow-labourers rose with the sun, which, ascending92 from the ocean, illumined the wide plain with its slant93 beams. The most beautiful vegetation luxuriated around them: the strips of land were planted with Indian corn, wheat and beans; they were divided, in some places by rows of olives, in others by elms or Lombardy poplars, to which the vines clung. The hedges were of myrtle, whose aromatic94 perfume weighed upon the sluggish95 air of noon, as the labourers reposed96, sleeping under the trees, lulled98 by the rippling99 of the brooks100 that watered their grounds. In the evening they ate their meal under the open sky; the birds were asleep, but the ground was alive with innumerable glow-worms, and the air with the lightning-like fire-flies, small, humming crickets, and heavy beetles101: the west had quickly lost its splendour, but in the fading beams of sunset sailed the boat-like moon, while Venus, as another satellite to earth, beamed just above the crescent hardly brighter than itself, and the outline of the rugged102 Apennines was marked darkly below.
Their harvests were plenteous and frequent. The moving of the grass was quickly followed in June by the reaping, and the well-trodden threshing floor, such as Virgil describes it, received the grain; then came the harvest of the Indian corn; and last the glorious vintage, when the beautiful dove-coloured oxen of Lombardy could hardly drag the creaking wains laden103 with the fruit.
Castruccio attended Guinigi in his labours; and Guinigi, resting on his spade, would moralize on all around him, and win the ardent104 imagination of the youth to follow his flights. All in the country bore for him the immediate11 stamp of divine and eternal beauty; he knew every flower of the field, and could describe their various habits, and what insects best loved to suck their nectar. He knew the form and the life of every little being of that peopled region, where the sun seems to quicken every atom into life; and that which was insignificant105 to common eyes, appeared to him to be invested with strange attributes and uncommon106 loveliness.
Again Guinigi sat, Castruccio beside him, at the door of his cot, watching the evening work of the labourers, as the wine was drawn off from the last vat. Arrigo, now a year older, was helping107 them: Castruccio said — “Instead of six months I have given you twelve, and I have not mentioned my future destiny; indeed we have been employed so pleasantly during the summer, that I almost forgot it. But I cannot live another year among these hills; you know not what bitterness I feel at heart, when I hear the clash of arms from the castle, I, who am wearing away an ignoble youth.”
Guinigi smiled, and replied, “I have reflected for you, and I have dived into your secret thoughts, although you have not spoken. To-morrow we will make a journey; and you shall soon be introduced to a man who will bring you into that life whose promise of glory is so attractive to you. So bid farewell to these hills; you will not see them again for many years.”
This hope stole sleep from the eyes of Castruccio that night. His imagination, which had lately rested on sickles108, and wains, and vines, and the simple philosophy of Guinigi, now again fled to its wonted track, and entered upon what he conceived to be a more glorious world. Fleecy clouds hid the full moon, and the world was invested by a faint light that gradually opened into day. Castruccio saw the horses led saddled to the door, and he hastened to join Guinigi. Before he departed he kissed affectionately the sleeping Arrigo, and said: “I fear those fair eyes will be dimmed with tears, when he hears that I am not to return. Sweet boy! I love you as a brother, and hope some future day to shew that love in something more than words.”
Guinigi smiled at the aspiring109 spirit of Castruccio; he smiled to perceive that, still wanting protection, still a boy, his thoughts always dwelt on the power which he would one day acquire, and the protection he would then afford to others.
They rode silently along the well known road that led to Padua: after resting their horses at this town, they continued their way to Venice. Who knows not Venice? its streets paved with the eternal ocean, its beautiful domes110 and majestic palaces? It is not now as it was when Castruccio visited it; now the degenerate111 inhabitants go “crouching and crab-like through their sapping streets:” then they were at the height of their glory, just before the aristocratical government was fixed, and the people were struggling for what they lost — liberty.
Guinigi and his young companion were silent during their long ride. Guinigi was on the eve of seeing the friends of his warlike youth; and perhaps his memory recalled those scenes. Castruccio dreamed of futurity; and the uncertainty112 of his destiny only gave more scope to his imagination, as he figured the glorious part which he flattered himself he was about to act on the great theatre. At length they arrived on the shore of the Laguna, and entered the gondola113 which was to convey them to the city. Guinigi then addressed the youth:— “You trust your fate to me; and I must explain to you the plan that I have formed concerning you, that you may judge whether I merit the entire confidence you shew yourself inclined to repose97 in me. You know, my dear Castruccio, that poor Italy is distracted by civil brawls114, and how little honour one who is exiled as you are from his native town, can acquire, to whatever party he may adhere. His most arduous115 exertions116 may be sacrificed to political intrigue117, and assuredly he will be repaid with ingratitude118 alone, whatever power he serves. In addition, a disgraceful political craft now reigns119 in the palaces of the Italian princes, which renders them ill schools for a youth, who, while he may, ought to preserve the innocence120 and sincerity of which the world will but too quickly deprive him. You would inevitably121 be disgusted by the narrow views, the treachery, and beggarly fraud, that dwell in the hearts, and influence the actions of our proudest nobles.
“You must therefore begin your knightly122 career out of Italy. The honours that you will obtain from a foreign sovereign, will ennoble you in the eyes of your countrymen, and will enable you, when you return, to judge impartially123 of the state of your country, and to choose, without being influenced by narrow party-feeling, the course you will pursue. It is with this view that I am going to introduce you to an old friend of mine, an Englishman, who is about to return to his native soil. I knew him many years ago, when he accompanied Charles of Anjou to Italy. A long time has elapsed since Sir Ethelbert Atawel returned to England; but, upon the event of a new king’s succession to the throne, he was chosen, as a person well acquainted with the customs of the holy court, to be the chief of an embassy to the Pope. Having discharged his mission, he has crossed the Alps to take a last farewell of his Italian friends, before he proceeds to assume a distinguished124 part in his own country. I shall consign125 you, my young friend, to the guidance of this noble gentleman. We have now been separated for nearly twenty years; but our attachment126 did not arise from casual intercourse127 alone; we esteemed128 one another, we bound ourselves one to the other by vows129; and, although at this distance of time, life has much changed its appearance to both of us, yet I swear I would keep to the letter all that I vowed130 to him, and I believe that he will do the same by me.
“Another motive131 influences me in sending you to England. You have a rich relation there named Alderigo, who requested Atawel to enquire132 for the various branches of the exiled Antelminelli, and in particular for your father. It may well appear from the earnestness of his enquiries, that, if you go to England, you will find yourself neither friendless nor poor. I am an exile like you, and like you I am destitute133 of all resources, and am saved from embarrassment134 only by those labours in which I fortunately take a pride. I know that it would not be agreeable to you to be dependent on the favour of Atawel; but you are differently circumstanced with regard to your relation; and I believe him to have both the power and the will to serve you.”
The gondola entered Canale Grande, and rested at the steps of a noble palace. Castruccio had no time to comment upon the relation of Guinigi; but followed him silently through the stately apartments, hung with silk and tapestry135, and paved with marble, into the banqueting hall, where the owner of the palace sat surrounded by the aristocracy of Venice. The childish mind of Castruccio shrunk into itself, when he saw the satined and gold-laced state of these nobles, and then glanced his eye on the dignified form of his companion clothed in the mean habiliments of an Italian peasant: but his shame was turned to pride and astonishment, when he found this homely-looking man received with reverence136, and embraced with affection, by this lordly assembly. The most cordial salutes137 echoed from the ends of the hall, as they all pressed round to welcome their old friend and counsellor, to whose wisdom and calm courage many of them owed the most important obligations. There was a sweetness in the smile of Guinigi, that elevated him in appearance above other men, a sensibility beaming in his eye which added grace to his quick and expressive138 motions, and a gentleness that tempered the frankness of his manners. He introduced Castruccio to the nobles. The youth was beautiful to a wonder, and experienced a flattering reception from the friends of his protector.
“I shall remain but a few days in Venice,” said Guinigi to his host; “but I will visit you again before I retire to my farm; at present you must tell me where I can find your English visitor, Sir Ethelbert Atawel, for my business is with him.”
A man now arose, and advanced from a retired139 part of the room; his person formed a strange contrast to the sun-burnt faces and black eyes of the Italians who were around him. He had the round Saxon features, moulded with uncommon delicacy140; his light hair slightly shaded his fair temples, and his slender person denoted elegance141 rather than power; his countenance142 bore the expression of much thought, of thoughts moulded by an enquiring143, yet a gentle mind. He advanced towards Guinigi; his lips were almost convulsed; a tear stole into his eye, as he grasped his hand, and said: “You do not forget me?”
Guinigi replied with trembling emphasis, “Never!” — the hearts of the friends were full, they took leave of the company, and descended144 to the gondola, that without spectators they might express their remembered affection.
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