No one appeared more fit than Petrarch to manage this negotiation, and it was universally expected that it should be entrusted to him; but particular reasons, which Petrarch has not thought proper to record, opposed the desires of the Lords of Milan and the public wishes.
The negotiation, nevertheless, was in itself a very easy one.

The Emperor, on the one hand, had no wish to make war for the sake of being crowned at Monza.

On the other hand, the Viscontis were afraid of seeing the league of their enemies fortified by imperial power.

They took advantage of the desire which they observed in Charles to receive this crown without a struggle.

They promised not to oppose his coronation, and even to give 50,000 florins for the expense of the ceremony; but they required that he should not enter the city of Milan, and that the troops in his suite should be disarmed.
To these humiliating terms Charles subscribed.