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And if any one should say: "King Louis yielded the Romagna to

Alexander and the kingdom to Spain to avoid war," I answer for

the reasons given above that a blunder ought never to be

perpetrated to avoid war, because it is not to be avoided, but is

only deferred to your disadvantage. And if another should allege

the pledge which the king had given to the Pope that he would

assist him in the enterprise, in exchange for the dissolution of

his marriage[5] and for the cap to Rouen,[6] to that I reply what

I shall write later on concerning the faith of princes, and how

it ought to be kept.

[5] Louis XII divorced his wife, Jeanne, daughter of Louis XI,

and married in 1499 Anne of Brittany, widow of Charles VIII, in

order to retain the Duchy of Brittany for the crown.

[6] The Archbishop of Rouen. He was Georges d'Amboise, created a

cardinal by Alexander VI. Born 1460, died 1510.