Outside the Court, there was no place for him.

He had been molded for Court-life from childhood.
It was not merely that he had no money; assiduous labor might have supplied him with means of subsistence.

But his friends, his fame, his habits, his ingrained sense of service, called him back to Ferrara.

He was not simply a man, but that specific sort of man which Italians called _gentiluomo_--a man definitely modified and wound about with intricacies of association.

Therefore, he soon began a correspondence with the House of Este.