He was kind and even grateful to his friends, so long as he considered them as such; but he was quick to distrust; and cold looks and averted10 favour followed suspicion: if these were answered by aught but patience and submission11, hatred12 quickly came, and that never failed to destroy its object. If he only suspected, that was sufficient cause, that he who had become thus obnoxious13 to his prince should be told that it was his will that he should instantly depart from Lucca; and the confiscation14 filled the public coffers. If he thought that he had reason to fear, the doom15 of that man whom he feared was sealed: he was cruel and unrelenting; and the death of his victim did not satisfy him; several were starved to death by his command, and worse tortures were inflicted16 upon others:— something of this was to be attributed to the usage of the times; but cruelty had become an elemental feature of Castruccio’s character.
If he were feared by his enemies in open war, his secret policy was still more dreaded17. He had not forgotten the lessons of Alberto Scoto; and, as his attempt on the life of the king of Naples might prove, his measures had perhaps been influenced by the counsels of Benedetto Pepi. He had many spies in each town, and collected intelligence from every court of Lombardy. Women and priests were his frequent instruments; and even the more distinguished18 among the citizens were induced through his largesses to betray the counsels of their country.
Such was Antelminelli, the some time lover of Euthanasia; daring, artful, bounteous19 and cruel; evil predominated in his character; and, if he were loved by a few, he was hated by most, and feared by all. His perpetual wars, which impoverished20 the neighbouring states, did not enrich his own; his artful policy sowed distrust among dear friends, and spies and traitors22 abounded23 during his reign24. In Lucca he was as an eagle in a cage; he had a craving25 that seemed to demand the empire of the world; and, weak as he was in means and hopes, he made the nations tremble.
The object of Castruccio’s present policy was Florence. He proceeded by measured steps; but he was perpetually gaining some advantage against the rival state, improving his military discipline, and preparing for the last assault. His first attempt was upon Pistoia, and he carried this place by a double treachery. The Florentines took the alarm upon so disastrous26 an event; and the pope sent to them Raymond de Cardona, one of the most eminent27 generals of the times, whom they immediately placed at the head of their armies. Cardona crossed the Guisciana, and ravaged28 the plain of Lucca, which had for many years been unspoiled by the hostile sword; but, when it became necessary for him to retreat, Castruccio by masterly movements intercepted29 his march, obtained a complete victory, and, after a short, but severe contest, took Cardona and all his army prisoners.
The battle of this day was called the field of Altopascio. Arrigo Guinigi was among the slain30; and his loss was grievously felt by Castruccio. The prince of Lucca had ever looked on him as a treasure consigned31 to him by his late father; and, amidst all his faults, Castruccio preserved his gratitude32 for the lessons of that admirable man, and a sweet remembrance of the days of peace he had passed with him among the Euganean hills. He had loved Arrigo, as a dear brother, or a son; childless himself, he sometimes thought, that, although there was small difference between their ages, Arrigo would succeed him, that his children would be his heirs, and that, if not bound to him by the ties of blood, yet they would look back to him with the same gratitude and respect, that an honoured posterity33 regard the founder34 of their house. Ambition hardens the heart; but such is the texture35 of the mind of man, that he is constantly urged to contemplate36 those days, when his once over-awing sceptre shall have fallen from his nerveless grasp; the worst usurper37, as he advances in years, looks with tenderness on his children, who, in the peaceful exercise of power, are to efface38 the memory of the lawless deeds by which he had acquired it. Castruccio saw the son of Guinigi in this light, and he felt a pang39 of sincere and deep grief, when it became his turn to heap his grassy40 tomb, amidst the many others with which the plain around Altopascio was crowded, and to order the place where the remains41 of Arrigo reposed42, to be marked with a sepulchral43 pillar.
From Altopascio, Castruccio advanced with his army to the very gates of Florence. The peasants fled before him, and took refuge, with what property they could save, in the city; the rest became the prey8 of the Lucchese army, who marked their progress by fire and devastation44. All the harvests had been brought in; but Castruccio’s soldiers wreaked46 their vengeance47 upon the fields, tearing up and burning the vines, cutting down the olive woods, seizing or burning the winter-stock, and reducing the cottages of the poor to a heap of formless ruins. The country about Florence was adorned48 by numerous villas49, the summer abodes50 of the rich citizens, ornamented51 with all the luxury of the times, the grounds laid out in the most delicious gardens, where beautiful trees and flowers adorned the landscape, and natural and artificial rills and waterfalls diffused52 coolness in the midst of summer. These became the prey of the soldier; the palaces were ransacked53, and afterwards burned, the cultivated grounds covered with ruins, the rivulets54 choked up, and all that, a few days before, had presented the shew of a terrestrial paradise, now appeared as if an earthquake, mocking the best cares of man, had laid it in ruin.
The army encamped before the gates of Florence. The remnant of the troops of Cardona and the remainder of the citizens capable of bearing arms, would have formed a force sufficient to cope with the army of Antelminelli. But more than their declared enemies, the Florentines feared domestic traitors; so many of their first citizens were prisoners to the prince of Lucca, that they dreaded lest their relations might endeavour to secure for them their freedom even by the betraying of their native city. Day and night they guarded the walls and gates, and patrolled the streets, each regarding the other with suspicious eyes, and listening with fear and horror to the sounds of rejoicing and riot that issued from the camp of Castruccio.
The prince, in contempt and derision of the besieged55, encouraged every kind of pastime and insulting mockery, that might sting his proud, though humbled56 enemies: he instituted games and races, coined money, and sent continual defiances to the citizens to issue from their walls and encounter him in battle. The men, too ready to seize the spirit of hatred and ridicule57, amused themselves with casting by means of their balestri, the carcases of dead asses58 and dogs into the town. Woe59 to the Florentine who fell into their hands; if a female, no innocence60 nor tears could save her from their brutality61, and, if a man, if their insults were less cruel, they were hardly less cutting and humiliating; to lead a prisoner naked through the camp, seated on an ass7, with his face turned towards the tail, was a common mockery. Castruccio perhaps did not perceive the full extent to which the brutal62 ferocity of his soldiers, made drunk by victory, carried them; if he did, he winked63 at it; for he had not that magnanimity which should lead him to treat with respect and kindness a fallen enemy.
While the Lucchese soldiers rioted in plenty, filling themselves even to satiety64 with the delicate wines and food of the Florentine nobles, and consuming in a few weeks the provision of years, the inhabitants of the besieged city presented a far different spectacle. The villagers, driven from their cottages, had taken refuge in Florence, whose gates jealously closed, permitted not the means of subsistence to be increased. In consequence of this, of the supernumerary population of the town, and of the unwholesome food on which the poorer classes were forced to subsist65, pestilence66 and other contagious67 fevers declared themselves: the streets were filled with mournful processions, the bells tolled68 a perpetual knell70 of death; the citizens invited their friends to the funeral feasts, but the seats of many of the guests were vacated by death, and the hosts who celebrated71 them had been invited to several similar commemorations. Every face looked blank and fearful. The magistrates72 were obliged to interfere73; they issued an order that the relations of the dead were no longer to celebrate their funerals by assemblies of their friends, or to toll69 the bell during the ceremony, so that the numerous dead might go to their long homes without terrifying the survivors74 by their numbers. Yet this law could not hide the works of death that were so frequent in the town; the streets were almost deserted75, except by the monks76, who hurried from house to house carrying the cross and sacrament to the dying; while the poor, almost starving, and often houseless, fell in the streets, or were carried in terrifying troops to the hospitals and convents of charity. And this was the work of Castruccio.
Euthanasia saw and felt this; and she felt as if, bound to him by an indissoluble chain, it was her business to follow, like an angel, in his track, to heal the wounds that he inflicted. Dressed in a coarse garb77, and endeavouring to throw aside those feelings of delicacy78 which were as a part of her, she visited the houses of the poor, aided the sick, fed the hungry, and would perform offices that even wives and mothers shrunk from with disgust and fear. An heroic sentiment possessed79 her mind, and lifted her above humanity; she must atone80 for the crimes of him she had loved.
Bondelmonti one day visited her; she had just returned from closing the eyes of an unhappy woman, whose husband and children had fled from their mother and wife, in the fear of infection; she had changed her garments on entering the palace, and lay on a couch, exhausted81; for she had not slept for the two previous nights. Bondelmonti approached her unperceived, and kissed her hand; — she drew it away: “Beware!” she said. “If you knew from whence I came, you would not touch a hand that may carry infection with it.”
Bondelmonti reproached her for the carelessness with which she exposed her health and her life: but Euthanasia interrupted him: “I thank you, dear cousin, for your anxiety; but you know me of old, and will not attempt to deter82 me from doing that which I regard as my duty. — But what would you now say to me; for I perceive weighty thought in your overhanging brow?”
“Am I not like the rest of our townsmen in that? You see, Madonna, perhaps better than any of us, to what straits our city is reduced, while this Lucchese tyrant83 triumphs; you perceive our miseries84 too well not to pity them; and I trust that you are too good a patriot85 not to desire most earnestly to put an end to them.”
“My dear friend, what do you say? I would sacrifice my life, and more than life, to be of use to my fellow citizens. God knows how deeply I lament86 their defeats and their unhappiness. But what can be done? An angel alone could inspire our troops with that spirit and courage, which would fit them to cope with the forces of the prince.”
“You say true; but there are other means for overthrowing87 him. Consider, Euthanasia, that not only he conquers and despoils89 us, but that he is a cruel and bloody90 tyrant, execrated91 by the chiefs of our religion, feared and hated by all who approach him, one whose death would spread joy and exultation92 over all Italy.”
“His death!” Euthanasia’s pale cheek became still paler.
“Nay, you are a woman; and, in spite of your superior strength of mind, I see that you are still to be frightened by words. Do not let us therefore talk of his death, but only of his overthrow88; we must contrive93 that.”
Euthanasia remained silent. Bondelmonti continued:
“Call to mind, Madonna, the many excellent and virtuous94 persons whom he has murdered. I need not mention your friend Leodino, or any other individual; his enemies have fallen beneath his axe95 like trees in a forest; and he feels as little remorse96 as the woodman who fells them. Torture, confiscation, treachery and ingratitude97 have gone hand in hand with murder. Before he came, Lucca belonged to the Guelphs, and peace hovered98 over Tuscany. Now the first nobles of the land have either fallen victims to his jealousy99, or wander as beggars in Italy. All that is virtuous and worthy100 under his dominion101 send up daily prayers for his downfall; and that is now near at hand; the means are ready, the instruments are preparing — ”
“For his death?” cried Euthanasia.
“Nay, if you intercede102 for him, he may be saved: but it must be upon one condition.”
“What is that?”
“That you join our conspiracy103, and aid its accomplishment104; thus Antelminelli may be saved, otherwise his fate is sealed. Consider this alternative; you may take a week for reflection on what I have said.”
Bondelmonti left her. The sleep that had been about to visit her wearied senses, fled far away, — scared by the doubts and anguish105 that possessed her heart.
She felt with double severity this change from the calm that she had enjoyed for the three preceding years, into the fears and miseries of a struggle to which she saw no end. The tyranny and warlike propensities106 of Castruccio were so entirely107 in opposition108 to every feeling of her heart, that she would not have lamented109 his fall; especially as then perhaps she would have conceived it her duty to stand near him in misfortune, to console his disappointed hopes, and to teach him the lesson of content in obscurity. But to join the conspiracy, to become one of those who plotted against him, to assist in directing the blow which should annihilate110, if not his life, at least all that he regarded as necessary to his happiness, was a task she shuddered111 at being called upon to fulfil.
No one can act conscientiously112 up to his sense of duty, or perhaps go even beyond that sense, in the exercise of benevolence113 and self-sacrifice, without being repaid by the sweetest and most secure happiness that man can enjoy, self — approbation114. Euthanasia had devoted115 herself for some weeks to the nursing the sick, and the feeding of the hungry; and her benevolence was repaid by a return of healthful spirits and peace of mind, which it seemed that no passing circumstance of life could disturb. It was in vain that she witnessed scenes of pain and wretchedness; she felt that pity which angels are said to feel; but so strange is the nature of the human mind, that the most unblemished serenity116 reigned117 in her soul. Her sleep, when she found time to sleep, was deep and refreshing118; as she moved, she felt as if she were air, there was so much elasticity119 and lightness of spirit in her motions and her thoughts. She shed tears, as she heard the groans120 and complaints of the sufferers; but she felt as if she were lifted beyond their sphere, and that her soul, clothed in garments of heavenly texture, could not be tarnished122 with earthly dross123. All this was now changed. She fell again into weak humanity, doubting, fearing, hoping.
When Castruccio’s army removed from before the walls of Florence, the gates were thrown open, and its inhabitants were relieved from the pressure and burthen of supernumerary inhabitants. But where did the peasant go? he found his cottage burnt, his vines, his next year’s hope, destroyed, ghastly ruin stared him in the face, and his countenance reflected back the horrors of a long train of misery124 that he saw was preparing for him. Euthanasia could do little good amidst the universal devastation; what she could do, she did. She restricted her own expenditure125, and all the money she could collect, was expended126 on the relief of these poor people; but this was a small pittance127, a drop of water in the ocean of their calamities128.
She was returning from one of these visits to the country, where she had been struck with horror to perceive the inadequacy129 of her aid to the miseries around her. A whole village had been laid waste, the implements130 of husbandry destroyed, the cattle carried off, and there was neither food for the starving inhabitants, nor hope of an harvest for the ensuing year. She had heard the name of Antelminelli loaded with such imprecations as a father’s mind suggested, when his children called on him vainly for food, and Castruccio the cause of this misery. “If God fulfils,” she thought, “as they say he does, the curses of the injured, how will his soul escape, weighed down by the imprecations of thousands? Yet I will not consent to the hopes of his enemies, nor be instrumental in dragging him from his seat of power. I have loved him; and what would be just vengeance in another, would be treachery and black ingratitude in me. Ingratitude! And yet for what? For lost hopes, content destroyed, and confidence in virtue131 shaken. These are the benefits I have received from him; yet I will not join his enemies.”
On her return to her palace, she found Bondelmonti waiting for her. “Have you decided132?” he asked.
“I have. I cannot enter into your conspiracy.”
“Do you know, Madonna, that in deciding thus you sign his death-warrant?”
“Nay, cousin, it is ungenerous and unmanly to use such a menace with me. If he be doomed133 to death, which indeed cannot, must not be, — how can I save him? how can I, a woman, turn aside the daggers134 of the conspirators135? if it be not indeed by betraying your plot to him, a deed you may perhaps force me to at last.”
“I hope not, Euthanasia. For your own sake — for the sake of all the virtue that ever dwelt beneath the female form, I hope that you will not be led to commit so base an action. You cannot harm us. If you inform Antelminelli that there is a conspiracy formed against him, and that I am at the head of it, you tell him no more than he already knows. He does not need the lessons of history; his own experience teaches him sufficiently137, that the sword is suspended over the tyrant’s head by a single hair. He knows that he has enemies; but he has too many to arrest them all: he knows that his friends are treacherous138; but he will never guess who on the present occasion will turn traitor21. He cannot be surprised, nor can it do him any good to know, that I am the chief conspirator136; I have ever been his open and determined139 foe140; and this is not my first attempt to accomplish his downfall.
“As to what you say concerning my childish menace, you much misunderstand me when you call it a threat. The persons who must act in this business are Lucchese; I may direct their exertions141; but they are the actors. And, if you heard the appalling142 curses that they heap upon Castruccio’s name, if you beheld143 the deep hate their eyes express when he is mentioned, their savage144 joy when they dream that one day they may wreak45 their vengeance upon him, you would feel that his life is indeed at stake. I do not wish him to die. Perhaps I am wrong in this; if his life be preserved, it is probable that no good will arise from his downfall, and that no blood will in reality be spared. But I have eaten at his board, and he has been my guest within these walls, so that I would preserve his life; and I have pitched upon you as the person who can best assist me in this. What else can I do? I cannot go to Lucca to watch over and restrain the fury of his enemies; nor can I find one Lucchese to whom I dare disclose the secret of the conspiracy, and whom I may trust with the protection of his person. Indeed this task seems naturally to devolve to you. You hate tyranny and war; you are a Guelph, and would fain see the enemy of your country, the author of the innumerable evils under which we groan121, removed from his government: but ancient friendship, the reciprocal interchange of hospitality render his person dear to you, and your female softness, and perhaps weakness, would come in aid of these feelings. You are free to go to Lucca; you may mix the voice of humanity with the bloody machinations of these men; you may save him, and you alone.”
Euthanasia was deeply moved by the presentations of Bondelmonti. But her thoughts were still confused; she saw no steady principle, on which to seize, and make it her guide from out the labyrinth145. She paused, hesitated, and asked again for a few days for consideration. And this Bondelmonti reluctantly granted.
In the mean time Castruccio was engaged in exhibiting the pomp of a triumph, which was conducted with unparalleled splendour; and in which, like a merciless barbarian146, the prince of Lucca, led along Cardona and all the most eminent of his prisoners as the attendants of his chariot.
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ingratitude
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