He left Tuscany without delay, with his Empress and his whole suite, to return to Germany, where he arrived early in June.

Many were the affronts he met with on his route, and he recrossed the Alps, as Villani says, "with his dignity humbled, though with his purse well filled." Laelius, who had accompanied the Emperor as far as Cremona, quitted him at that place, and went to Milan, where he delivered to Petrarch the Prince's valedictory compliments.

Petrarch's indignation, at his dastardly flight vented itself in a letter to his Imperial Majesty himself, so full of unmeasured rebuke, that it is believed it was never sent.
Shortly after the departure of the Emperor, Petrarch had the satisfaction of hearing, in his own church of St.Ambrosio, the publication of a peace between the Venetians and Genoese.

It was concluded at Milan by the mediation of the Visconti, entirely to the advantage of the Genoese, to whom their victory gained in the gulf of Sapienza had given an irresistible superiority.

It cost the Venetians two hundred thousand florins.