Such was the profusion of this banquet that the remnants taken from the table were enough and to spare for 10,000 men.' Petrarch, we may remember, assisted at this festival and sat among the princes.

It was thus that Galeazzo displayed his wealth before the feudal nobles of the North, and at the same time stretched the hand of friendly patronage to the greatest literary man of Europe.

Meanwhile he also married his son Gian Galeazzo to Isabella, daughter of King John of France, spending on this occasion, it is said, a similar sum of money for the honor of a royal alliance.[4] [1] M.Villani, v.81.Compare Corio, p.230.Corio gives the date 1356.
[2] Namely, Alba, Cuneo, Carastro, Mondovico, Braida.

See Corio, p.
238, who adds sententiously, 'il che quasi fu l' ultima roina del suo stato.' [3] Corio (pp.

239, 240) gives the bill of fare of the banquet.
[4] Sismondi says he gave 600,000 florins to Charles, the brother of Isabella, but authorities differ about the actual amount.
Galeazzo held his court at Pavia.