PARTITION OF NAPLES. 31 give greater solemnity to these engagements, bound chapter himself to observe them by an oath on the sacra- ment. ^^ On the 1st of March, 1502, the Spanish army took possession, according to agreement, of the city of Tarento ; and the duke of Calabria with his suite was permitted to leave it, in order to rejoin his father in France. In the mean time, advices were received from Ferdinand the Catholic, in- structing Gonsalvo on no account to suffer the young prince to escape from his hands, as he was a pledge of too great importance for the Spanish government to relinquish. The general in conse- quence sent after the duke, who had proceeded in company with the count of Potenza as far as Biton- to, on his way to the north, and commanded him to be arrested and brought back to Tarento. Not long after, he caused him to be conveyed on board one of the men-of-war in the harbour, and, in con- tempt of his solemn engagements, sent a prisoner to Spain. ^^ ^2 Zurita, Hist, del Rey Hernan- ^3 Zurita, Hist, del Rey Hernan- do, torn. i. lib. 4, cap. 52, 53. — do, torn. i. lib. 4, cap. 56. — Abar- Guicciardini, Istoria, torn. i. lib. 5, ca, Reyes de Aragon, torn. ii. rey p. 270. — Giannone, Istoria di 30, cap. 11, sec. 10-12. — Ulloa, Napoli, lib. 29, cap. 3. — Murato- Vita di Carlo V., fol. 9. — Lanuza, ri, Annali d' Italia, torn. xiv. p. Historias, lib. 1, cap. 14. 14. Martyr, who was present on the The various authorities differ young prince's arrival at court, more irreconcilably than usual in where he experienced the most the details of the siege. I have honorable reception, speaks of him followed Paolo Giovio, a contem- in the highest terms. " Adoles- porary, and personally acquainted cens namque est et regno et re- with the principal actors. All agree gio sanguine dignus, mirag indolis, in the only fact, in which one would forma, egregius." (See Opus Epist., willingly see some discrepancy, epist. 252.) He survived to the Gonsalvo's breach of faith to the year 1550, but without ever quit- young duke of Calabria. ting Spain, contrary to the fond
