Chapter

 1 2,3 |         the first to contract an alliance with him. ~The duchy of
 2 3,4 |       felt in such a prospective alliance, there was no hurry about
 3 4,1 |          defensive and offensive alliance with him and admit the republic
 4 4,1 |       was accepted, and a secret alliance was signed, with Count Charles
 5 4,2 |          Henry VII cancelled the alliance with the King of the Romans,
 6 5,1 |        had concluded a treaty of alliance with Ferdinand of Naples;
 7 5,3 |         future grandeur upon his alliance with the house of Aragon.
 8 5,4 | son-in-law, had retired from the alliance with Aragon. Alexander accordingly
 9 5,5 |    sincere friendship and a firm alliance; ~Before the completion
10 5,8 |         by the confederates, the alliance was to last for five-and-twenty
11 8,1 |          the very moment when an alliance was to be formed between
12 8,2 |      contracting so important an alliance with the house of Aragon
13 8,4 |          marriage, which made an alliance with Louis XII certain,
14 11,1|       friendship of Louis and an alliance with him that is, money.
15 12,2|   characterised him. Besides his alliance with Florence and Rome,
16 12,3|      Ferrara, in favour of which alliance Louis XII had negotiated. ~ ~
17 12,4|          he was contracting this alliance. ~ ~
18 13,2|         everything. ~A treaty of alliance was signed between the confederates:
19 13,3|        be between them peace and alliance true and perpetual, with
20 13,3|       confederation, league, and alliance all the lords aforesaid;
21 13,5|         had made him desire your alliance, a desire to which he hopes