This was an idle step.
Henry's death had left him without protectors, and Charles V.felt no hesitation in abandoning his suppliant to the Venetians.

When the usual formalities regarding extradition had been completed, the Milanese Government delivered Lodovico at the end of April into the hands of the Rector of Brescia, who forwarded him under a guard of two hundred men to Padua.

He was hand-cuffed; and special directions were given regarding his safety, it being even prescribed that if he refused food it should be thrust down his throat.

What passed in the prisons of the State, after his arrival at Venice, is not known.

But on May 14, he was beheaded between the columns on the Molo.
Venice, at this epoch, incurred the reproaches of her neighbors for harboring adventurers of Lodovico's stamp.