The immediate consequence of this positive assurance that Alexander had gone over to Sforza's enemies was Ascanio Sforza's hurried departure from Rome on July 13.
In the meantime Cesare's marriage had followed almost immediately upon the conclusion of the treaty.

The nuptials were celebrated on May 12, and on the 19th he received at the hands of the King of France the knightly Order of St.Michael, which was then the highest honour that France could confer.

When the news of this reached the Pope he celebrated the event in Rome with public festivities and illuminations.
Of Cesare's courtship we have no information.

The fact that the marriage was purely one of political expediency would tend to make us conceive it as invested with that sordid lovelessness which must so often attend the marriages of princes.

But there exists a little data from which we may draw certain permissible inferences.