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314 A HISTORY OF VERONA
burning Quartesolo, and alleging as excuse that the troops who
did it were in the pay of Alenqon. Nevertheless he was
genuinely desirous for peace with Verona (partly doubtless
because he had as much on his hands elsewhere as he could
manage) and made one last effort to secure it. He wrote to
Antonio, pointing out that war between Padua and Verona
must inevitably lead to the ruin of both-which was only too
true-and offering to make an alliance for thirty years and pay
all expenses. Antonio, however, seemed set on his own destruction.
He had never been engaged in a serious war, and
had not the slightest doubt that he would easily beat the
Paduans. He answered Francesco's friendly messages with
an insolent refusal. "A young dog," he boasted "would drive
the old vixen from her lair." I
War was now inevitable. On 28th December, 1385, the
league between Venice and Verona was renewed. Antonio set
to work to form an army and quickly collected a large but illtrained
force, which he put under the command of Ostasio da
Polenta, Giovanni degli Ordelaffi, and Cortesia da Sarego. He
cut the water off from the eastern branch of the Bacchiglione,
and so stopped all the Paduan mills. He even sent to challenge
Francesco da Carrara to personal combat. When the message
was delivered in the Council at Padua, Francesco's eldest son,
(known as Francesco Novello) leapt to his feet, eager to accept
it in his father's stead, but the shrewd old dynast refused to
allow it, remarking with a quiet smile that it would ill become
a Carrarese to measure swords with a bastard. In April a detachment
of Veronese troops got through to the Friuli, but
achieved nothing of any importance, and after a month returned
home again. Hereupon Antonio proceeded to fortify Rovolone,
in the north of the Euganean hills, as the base for an attack on
Padua. Meanwhile the main Veronese army made a series of
attempts to get across the continuous line of waterways, the
Brenta, the artificial channel known as the Brentelle, the Bacchiglione,
and the Canale di Battaglia, which so effectively
protected Padua from an attack from the west. The Veronese
under Cortesia da Sarego first tried to pass the Brenta at CurCronica
di Andrea Gataro, R. I. S., vol. xvii. p. 512.
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