RETIREMENT OF GONSALVO. 295 ers.^^ The world called it disgrace ; and the old chapter XX. count of Urena exclaimed, " The good ship is — ^^^ — stranded at last, as I predicted ! " " Not so," said Gonsalvo, to whom the observation was reported, " she is still in excellent trim, and waits only the rising of the tide, to bear away as bravely as ever. 55 38 37 The inscription on Guicciar- dini's monument, might have been written on Gonsalvo's. " CuJLis negotiMm,an otium gloriosius in- certum." See Pignotti, Storia della Tosea- na, (Pisa, 1813,) torn. ix. p. 155. 38 Quintana, Espafioles C61ebres, torn. i. pp. 322 - 334. — Giovio, Vitee Illust. Virorum, p. 286. — Chronica del Gran Capitan, lib. 3, cap. 7-9. — Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 560. — Guicciardini, Istoria, torn. iv. pp. 77, 78.
