and P._, i., 4511, 4560.] [Footnote 150: _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 132.] [Footnote 151: _Ibid._, ii., 159.] [Footnote 152: _Ibid._, ii., 158, 163.] That design had occupied him throughout the summer, before Louis had become so amenable; then he was urging Maximilian that the Pope must be kept on their side and persuaded "not to forgive the great sins committed by the King of France"; for if he removed his ecclesiastical censures, Ferdinand and Maximilian "would be deprived of a plausible excuse for confiscating the territories they intended to conquer".[153] Providence was, as usual, to be bribed into assisting in the (p.

071) robbery of Venice by a promise to make war on the Turk.

But now that Louis was prepared to give his daughter Renee in marriage to young Ferdinand and to endow the couple with Milan and Genoa and his claims on Naples, his sins might be forgiven.

The two monarchs would not be justified in making war upon France in face of these offers.