Note *231 — Chapter XXXII
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She was betrothed in the same month in which her father died. The marriage had long been desired by Elisabetta. Giustiniani mentions a report of it in his Despatches (Dispacci, vol. II., p. 359) even in 1503. Mrs. Ady (Isabella d'Este, vol. I., p. 267) says the Marquis of Mantua desired it "as a means of obtaining the Cardinalate which he had been striving to obtain for his brother during the last fifteen years."