8                     CASOLA^S   PILGRIMAGE

pious beliefs of the pilgrims, and the devotions they
usually performed.^

A Milanese merchant named Bernadino di Nali (or di
Noli) went as a pilgrim to the Holy Land in 1492, and
wrote a short account of his experiences, a copy of which
is preserved in the National Library of Lucca. It com¬
mences, " In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
here begins the pilgrimage to Jerusalem made by me,
Bernardino di Nali, Milanese merchant in Venice, in the
year of the human salvation, 1492, on the Jaffa Galley.^

Casola must, however, have received more valuable help
still from the written and verbal instructions of two fellow
townsmen, both living in 1494—the Lord Guidantonio
Arcimboldi, Archbishop of Milan, and the Cavalier Santo
Brasca, who was twice quaestor of his city, and who was
also ducal Chancellor under Lodovico Sforza.

Guidantonio Arcimboldi was a son of Nicolo Arcimboldi,
president of the Senate, and of Ursina Countess of
Canossa. He succeeded his brother Giovanni, as Arch¬
bishop of Milan, in 1488. But, before taking orders, he
had been Senator and president of the Senate, like his
father. Because of his culture, his oratorical gifts, Eis
knowledge of law, and his remarkable prudence, he was
frequently employed as Ducal Ambassador and plenipo¬
tentiary.^ In this capacity Sanuto mentions his arrival
in Venice, in April, 1496, adding that he had already been
as ambassador to Spain. Later on Sanuto remarks that
the Milanese Archbishop in "leaving and coming to the
audiences observes the order of the hours given him by
the duke according to astrology, which the duke follows
greatly."*    The Archbishop left Venice on the 14th of

1.    p. Amat di San Filippo, Biograjia di Viaggiatori Italiani, (kc., p. 170; and Rohricht,
Bihl. Geog. Falaes., p. 139.

2.    Idem,   See Amat di San Filippo, p. 199, and Rohricht, p, 143.

3,    Argelati, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Mediolan., vol. i. part ii. cap. cxix.

4,    Diarii di Marino Sanuto, vol. i. pp. 116, 120.