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The distance between Padua and Mantua is so short. It is only an excursion to be made at one stretch, and when the season permits, we will think of it.'* He was intending to go with his pupil to Venice about Christmas time, but only for two or three days. ** How I should like," he added, ** to hear your impressions of that town, and of the various cities of Italy that you have already visited ! Especially of Rome, which you must soon leave, if, as I hope, the duke of Mantua has returned home sa...fe and sound. . . What, I ask you, is Pourbus doing ? Does he still live and breathe ? Digitized by Google 72 RUBENS I have heard nothing of our mother since ray departure. She has not been able to write to me. Where could she have sent her letters ? I hope she maintains her health. Keep well, my dearest brother, and expect more detailed news when I hear where you are." When Peter Paul returned to Mantua, the proximity of the two brothers permitted them to meet, and in a letter written on June 26, 1602, to one of their com- mon friends, Jan van den Wouwere, who had come from Spain, Philip, speak- ing of the pleasure it will be to see him soon at Bologna, adds : " But first we will go to Verona in order that we may thence go together to Mantua," and in concluding, sends him affectionate remem- brances from his brother, who was doubtless with him at the time.
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