No one seemed ever to think of their rights or their happiness.
Various circumstances had exasperated Maximilian very much against the Venetians.

All the powers of Europe were then ready to combine against any other power whatever, if there was a chance of obtaining any share in the division of the plunder.

Maximilian found no difficulty in secretly forming one of the most formidable leagues history had then recorded, the celebrated league of Cambray.

No sympathy need be wasted upon the Venetians, the victims of this coalition, for they had rendered themselves universally detestable by their arrogance, rapacity, perfidy and pride.

France joined the coalition, and, in view of her power, was to receive a lion's share of the prey--the provinces of Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona, and the Ghiradadda.