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Galeazzo, remained faithful to his father-in-law, what¬ 
ever may have been said or written to the contrary. 
He was more of a carpet-knight than a leader of 
men, and his generalship does not appear to have 
been of a high order, while the defection of his 
brother, the Count of Caiazzo, with the best part of 
the ducal army, was a heavy blow. But his personal 
courage and loyalty were beyond suspicion, and if, even 
then, Lodovico had followed his son-in-law’s advice, 
and put himself at the head of his remaining forces, 
his fortunes might yet have been retrieved. Un¬ 
fortunately, at this critical moment the Moro’s nerve 
failed him, and he fled across the Alps, leaving the 
Castello, with all its stores and treasures, to be 
betrayed to the French by a faithless servant. 
Galeazzo followed the Duke into exile, and after 
taking a leading part in Lodovico’s desperate attempt 
to recover Milan, shared his captivity when, after 
the catastrophe of Novara, he fell into the hands of 
the Swiss. More fortunate than the Moro, Galeazzo 
was ransomed a few weeks later by his powerful 
relatives, and joined the other Milanese exiles at the 
Imperial Court. In October 1501 the Venetian, 
Marino Sanudo, met him at Trent, and describes him 
as clad in deep mourning and looking very pale, with 
empty pockets and a sorrowful mien. “ The Germans,” 
adds Sanudo, “ hold him of small account, but he 
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