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And having committed this prime error, he was obliged to follow

it up, so much so that, to put an end to the ambition of

Alexander, and to prevent his becoming the master of Tuscany, he

was himself forced to come into Italy.

And as if it were not enough to have aggrandized the Church, and

deprived himself of friends, he, wishing to have the kingdom of

Naples, divided it with the King of Spain, and where he was the

prime arbiter in Italy he takes an associate, so that the

ambitious of that country and the malcontents of his own should

have somewhere to shelter; and whereas he could have left in the

kingdom his own pensioner as king, he drove him out, to put one

there who was able to drive him, Louis, out in turn.