SOLD IE OF THE CHURCH THE LIFE OF IGNATIUS LOYOLA by LUDWIG MARCUSE
Translated from the German and edited by CHRISTOPHER LAZARE SIMON
AND SCHUSTER NEW YORK - 1939 abie of Content BOOK I Isabella 3
Juana 12 Germana 18 The Wounded Hero of Pampeluna 25 Victory in
Loyola Castle 32 Work Is Degrading 41 Inigos Lady, Queen of Heaven
49 Ifiigo Does Battle with Inigo 56 Venetian Spring 65 Diplomatic
Notes Between a Good Big Fighter and a Good Little One 80 Picnic at
the Holy Sepukher 85 No Use for Heroes 93 The Teacher and the Women
103 Conformity 1 Good in the Eyes of God 112 End of the World 116
Dinner with the Inquisitor 122 The Capettes of IMontaigu 129 War in
Dog Street 139 Pierre and Francisco 147 A King Cannot Do as He
Pleases 155 Paradise in Babylon 164 Heretics to the Flames 169
CONTENTS BOOK II Pope and Emperor 177 The Prodigal Son 191 Rosy
View of Venice 200 Somber View of Venice 209 Courtesans and
Ascetics 221 Audience in Frascati 227 A General Is Drafted 2,37
Between Ireland and Japan 250 The Agent m the. Far Ratt 271 Purge
in Portugal 303 The Final Ordeal 321 VI BOOK I QUEEN ISABELLA lay
down to die in Medina del Campo. The year 1504 had been a frightful
one. On Good Friday an earthquake spread horror and misery from
Castile clear down to Morocco. In Seville houses, fortifications,
cathedrals collapsed. The crops failed Plague incubated in the
famished population. Autumn brought endless floods, pouring from
inky heavens. Late planting rotted. She was ready to die. For
thirty years she had guided the unwieldy empire with steady hand.
Her limbs swelled beyond recognizable proportions, her skin
stretched taut over her bloated body. Fever parched her with
unquenchable thirst. In everychurch of the country prayers rose to
heaven. Long processions filed through the cities in pious
testimonial, anxious exhortation. Do not grieve for me, she said.
Do not waste time in idle prayers for my recovery All her life Her
Catholic Majesty had prepared for the end. Why postpone it She
could have wished to be spared for the sake of the country and of
the dynasty. Her province of Castile would pass, at her death, as
would the whole great em pire at the death of her husband, to the
mad Infanta, the love-crazed Juana. Queen Isabella had seen the
heirs apparent, and their heirs, taken one by one, long before
their time. 3 SOLDIER OF THE CHURCH In 1490 her eldest daughter,
the Princess Isabella, married Alonso, heir to the throne of
Portugal The Portuguese court spent six months preparing the
festivi ties accompanying the betrothal, A month of revelry honored
the love of the young couple and the harmonious alliance of the two
neighboring nations Tourneying lists on the banks of the
Guadalquivir were hung with cloth of silk and gold. Shaded by
canopies and tapestries embroidered with the arms of the ancient
houses of Cas tile, the Infanta sat enthroned in a circle of
seventy noble maidens and one hundred youthful hidalgos. The wed
ding took place on November 22, 1490. On June 22, 1491, the
bridegroom was killed by a fall from his horse In 1497 Queen
Isabellas only son, the gifted and spiritual Juan, welcomed his
intended bride, Arch duchess Margaret, daughter of the Holy Roman
Emperor. Landing in Santander after a stormy voyage, the seven
teen-year-old girl plighted troth to the young prince be fore the
Patriarch of Alexandria. The Archbishop of Toledo performed the
final weddingceremony at Burgos in April. Pomp, carnival, and
spectacular displays of knighthood and soldiery celebrated the
nuptials of the Spanish Crown Prince and the daughter of the Haps
burgs. In September the twenty-year-old Juan, sickly from birth,
fell ill of fever at Salamanca, The physi cians advised a brief
separation from his temperamental young wife. Queen Isabella
insisted, What God hath joined together let no man put asunder. On
October l f 1497, her adored son, her angel passed away. The 4
ISABELLA walls and gates of the city were draped with black...
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