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very halls which had been the home of her lamented 
sister. 
For a long time Galeazzo remained faithful to 
Bianca’s memory, and refused many brilliant offers of 
marriage, including one from Caterina Sforza, the 
famous Madonna of Forli, who proposed to give him 
her daughter’s hand. But after his return to Milan 
with the French, he married a lady of the house of 
Carretto, the daughter of the Marchese del Finale, and 
spent most of his time at Genoa. 1 He afterwards 
became a great favourite of Francis I, and accompanied 
this monarch in all his campaigns. But he still re¬ 
mained on friendly terms with the Gonzagas, and was 
always a welcome guest at the courts of Mantua and 
Urbino. 
Castiglione, who had known Messer Galeaz in his 
most triumphant days, when “ the flower of the men of 
this world were assembled in the Castello of Milan,” 
always looked upon him as a peerless knight, and 
enshrined his name, as the mirror of chivalry, in the 
pages of his Cortegiano. To the last Galeazzo retained 
his courage and skill as a rider and jouster, until he 
died, fighting by his royal master’s side, on the fatal 
field of Pavia. A young squire, who saw him fall from 
his horse, rushed to the rescue, but the hero only shook 
his head and told him that it was too late. “ Go to the 
1 F. Sansovino, Della Origine delle famigli illustri d'Italia, 316. 
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