Cesare I Gonzaga

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Count Frederick espoused in 1560 Virginia de la Rovere, the daughter of the Duke of Urbino, in every respect a most desirable match, and about the same time his sister Camilla married Cesare Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua.

From her childhood, Anna Borromeo had been a fiancée to Fabrizio, the son of the celebrated Constable Marcantonio Colonna, Viceroy of Sicily, and of his wife Felicia Orsini.

She was the favorite sister of Charles.

Chapter 4, Death of Count Frederick On November 19, 1562, Count Frederick Borromeo died suddenly of malignant fever.

Charles was almost brokenhearted, for he and his brother had always been the best of friends and comrades.

He, notwithstanding his grief, wrote as follows in his usual concise manner to his brother-in-law, Prince Cesare Gonzaga.

So great was the virulence of the fever that lately attacked my brother.

decidedly count charles was overwhelmed with honour and wealth and the wonder is not that their splendour dazzled his eyes but that he did not sink hopelessly beneath their weight and become an arrogant self-sufficient priest or clergyman yet though he apparently led a life of ostentation and luxury surrounded by a princely train of retainers and dependants sumptuously installed in a magnificent palace in the midst of all this pride of life this pomp and circumstance of high position charles never forgot but always practised the duties of a devout christian every day he spent a considerable time in prayer and meditation he assisted at holy mass and frequently received the sacraments of penance and the eucharist the desire to enter the sacred ministry grew upon him when quite a young lad he had received the tonsure and later on minor orders and it was understood in the family that he would probably one day be ordained in the solitude of his own apartment he lifted his soul to god praying the holy ghost to enlighten and direct him begging for guidance in the splendid thorny path it was his destiny to tread and imploring that the grace of the sacrament of holy orders might be given him and that the almighty might deem him worthy to serve him as a minister of his gospel nor did he omit in the midst of all the pomp of place and power to practice constant mortification and even severe corporal penances Yet, to a certain extent, he reveled in this outward show, and he certainly took advantage of his exalted position to arrange advantageous marriages for his brother and sisters.

Count Frederick espoused in 1560 Virginia de la Rovere, the daughter of the Duke of Urbino, in every respect a most desirable match, and about the same time his sister Camilla married Cesare Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua.

From her childhood, Anna bore a male heavenly fiancé to Fabrizio, the son of the celebrated constable Marcantonio Colonna, viceroy of Sicily, and of his wife Felicia Orsini.

She was the favorable sister of Charles.

soon however a change came over the spirit of these reunions and the learning of greece and rome gave way to moving discourses on sacred subjects the ancient philosophers and their maxims faded away before the splendid heroism and sublime doctrines of the christian saints needless to say that above and before all they selected passages from the new testament as their theme on one occasion charles spoke with such inspired eloquence on the fourth beatitude viaticui assirient et situa justitiam blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice for they shall have their fill that his audience were carried completely away by his burning eloquence and removed almost to tears by his tender pathos These conferences were, except when he played on the violin cello or the lute, for he is passionately fond of music, the only recreations Charles indulged in.

These meetings he turned to good account in more ways than one, for not only did they afford a pleasant and intellectual distraction, but they also enabled him attentively to study the academicians, and he was thus able to select and recommend to Pius IV the men he considered best fitted to fill Episcopal sees and receive the cardinal's hat.

some of them afterwards worthily occupied exalted positions ugo balcompani became sovereign pontiff under the name of gregory the thirteenth and simonetti was papal legate at the council of trent while others also worthily filled episcopal thrones chapter three CHAPTER IV DEATH OF COUNT FREDERICK on november nineteenth fifteen sixty two count frederick borromeo dies suddenly of a malignant fever charles was almost broken-hearted for he and his brother had always been the best of friends and comrades he notwithstanding his grief wrote as follows in his usual concise manner to his brother-in-law prince cesare gonzaga So great was the virulence of the fever that lately attacked my brother.

He was but a few days ill, dying in an incredibly short time.