Chapter

 1 2,2 |             had succeeded his father, Louis XI, on the 30th of August,
 2 2,2 |             the 30th of August, 1483. Louis by dint of executions, had
 3 4,2 |           which had all been given to Louis XI as a hostage for the
 4 4,2 |              at the time agreed upon, Louis XI would not give them up
 5 4,5 |          Orleans (who later on became Louis XII) to take command of
 6 5,1 |            with the actual consent of Louis XI, his father Lorenzo had
 7 5,4 |              blow; Yves d' Alegre and Louis de Ligny had taken over
 8 8,4 |        leaving the throne to the good Louis XII, a man of two conspicuous
 9 8,4 |         moment what he could get from Louis XII's accession to the throne,
10 8,4 | accomplishment of his twofold desire. Louis needed, first, his temporal
11 8,4 |               Jeanne, the daughter of Louis XI; a childless and hideously
12 8,4 |            willing to do all this for Louis XII and to give in addition
13 8,4 |           lord of Villeneuve, sent by Louis and commissioned to bring
14 8,4 |              him to convey for him to Louis XII. These were followed
15 8,4 |          Michael, an order founded by Louis XI, and esteemed at this
16 8,4 |           which made an alliance with Louis XII certain, was received
17 8,4 |     illuminations all over the town. ~Louis XII was not only grateful
18 8,4 |              be undertaken so soon as Louis felt assured of the support
19 10,1|              the command of Trivulce. Louis XII had come as far as Lyons
20 10,1|         renewing the hostilities with Louis XII that had been interrupted,
21 10,1|              their promise because of Louis XII's threats, and had undertaken
22 10,1|          territories of their enemy. ~Louis XII received the news of
23 10,1|              the fact that friends of Louis had been spreading reports
24 10,1|              Borgia, who had followed Louis XII with a view to playing
25 10,2|            with his ally and relative Louis XII, was, as we know, staying
26 10,2|       uncertain now in consequence of Louis's successes, which had caused
27 10,3|            Alegre and the troops that Louis XII had lent to Caesar;
28 10,3|              that the French army and Louis's promises had inspired.
29 10,4|               result of this was that Louis XII, to whom runners had
30 10,4|              Trivulce had at Mortara, Louis XII found himself master
31 10,4|           thanks to the money sent by Louis XII, it was the Swiss in
32 10,4|            and took possession of it, Louis XII took no steps to get
33 10,4|             were taken to Venice, but Louis XII claimed them, and they
34 10,4|               poisoned by his uncle. ~Louis XII, wishing to make an
35 10,4|              and drum. The war-cry of Louis, France, France, and that
36 11,1|       founding upon the friendship of Louis and an alliance with him
37 11,2|           than this to be considered: Louis XII's rest in Lombardy was
38 11,2|             It was very possible that Louis was annoyed about the marriage
39 11,5|              him, in the name of King Louis XII, immediately to send
40 12,1|             than he sent a courier to Louis XII to claim the fulfilment
41 12,1|            fulfilment of his promise. Louis kept it with his accustomed
42 12,1|               he received orders from Louis XII to get ready, so soon
43 12,1|              a serious resistance. As Louis XII's army was continuing
44 12,2|                                     2~Louis XII was this time advancing
45 12,2|             throne of Naples to those Louis himself had through the
46 12,2|           their conquests beforehand: Louis would be master of Naples,
47 12,2|             but it mattered little to Louis, who profited by treasonable
48 12,2|               November, 1500, between Louis XII and Ferdinand the Catholic,
49 12,3|               pass into France, where Louis XII gave him the duchy of
50 12,3|              favour of which alliance Louis XII had negotiated. ~ ~
51 13,2|            the Milanese, on behalf of Louis XII, not only explaining
52 13,2|              Gonzalva di Cordova, and Louis might any day need Florence,
53 13,2|               formal prohibition from Louis to advance any further.
54 13,2|              on the road to Florence, Louis XII had as soon as he reached
55 13,2|        reached Asti sent off to Parma Louis de la Trimouille and 200
56 13,2|             departed for Milan, where Louis XII had just arrived, bringing
57 13,2|           rather than the minister of Louis XII. Thus, thanks to the
58 13,2|               heirs. He obtained from Louis XII three hundred lances
59 13,3|            his Very Christian Majesty Louis XII, King of France: the
60 13,4|            hundred lances lent him by Louis XII had arrived at last,
61 14,1|            was all the easier because Louis XII, having suffered reverses
62 15,2|             signing a new treaty with Louis XII, by which he engaged
63 15,2|               his conquest of Naples: Louis, on his side, guaranteed
64 16,1|             years, always hoping that Louis XII would reclaim him as
65 16,1|            the kingdom of France; but Louis, much disturbed by the loss
66 16,2|           upon Italy, with the aid of Louis XII; but during Caesar's
67 16,2|           castle of Medina del Campo, Louis had made peace with the