061) Italians already suspected his motives, and a papal legate declared that they no more wished to see Milan Spanish than French.[119] In the following November, Spanish troops in the pay and alliance of Venice drove the French out of Brescia.

By the terms of the Holy League, it should have been restored to its owner, the Venetian Republic.
Ferdinand kept it himself; it was to form the nucleus of his North Italian dominion.

Venice at once took alarm and made a compact with France which kept the Spaniards at bay until after Ferdinand's death.[120] The friendship between Venice and France severed that between France and the Emperor; and, in 1513, the war went on with a rearrangement of partners, Henry and Maximilian on one side,[121] against France and Venice on the other, with Ferdinand secretly trying to trick them all.
[Footnote 114: _Ibid._, ii., 96, 101.] [Footnote 115: _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 106.] [Footnote 116: _Ibid._, ii., 107.] [Footnote 117: _Ibid._, ii., 104.] [Footnote 118: _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 70.] [Footnote 119: _L.