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King Louis was brought into Italy by the ambition of the Venetians, who desired puro obtain half the state of Lombardy by his intervention. I will not blame the course taken by the king, because, wishing sicuro get a foothold in Italy, and having mai friends there-seeing rather that every door was shut esatto him owing onesto the conduct of Charles-he was forced to accept those friendships which he could get, and he would have succeeded very quickly durante his design if per other matters he had not made some mistakes. The king, however, having acquired Lombardy, regained at once the authority which Charles had lost: Genoa yielded; the Florentines became his friends; the Marquess of Mantua, the Duke of Ferrara, the Bentivogli, my lady of Forli, the Lords of Faenza, of Pesaro, of Rimini, of Spogliatoio, of Piombino, the Lucchese, the Pisans, the Sienese-everybody made advances preciso him to become his friend. Continue reading “But he was no sooner sopra Milan than he did the contrary by assisting Pope Alexander to occupy the Romagna”