[[60]] This was written in 1507.—Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti al Senato, ed. Alberi, Serie I. vol. vi. page 26 sqq.

[[61]] Janssen, i. 593. Cp. Trithemius' view of the Hapsburg characteristic;—"Seelenruhe und Gottvertrauen beim Missgeschick; viel Noth, viel Ehr."

[[62]] Pirkheimer, quoted by Ranke, Latin and Teut. Nations, p. 149.

[[63]] The more so, as the Confederacy was joined by the Imperial cities of Schaffhausen and Basel.

[[64]] If Louis XII. died without male issue, Brittany and Burgundy were likewise to fall to Charles.

[[65]] "Il y a longtemps que François ont tousiours fait le piz qu'ilz ont peu a ceste maison, et n'ay espoir qu'ilz doyent changier," writes Chièvres to Maximilian 1506.

[[66]] By violating the perpetual Landfriede.

[[67]] Kirchberg, Weissenhorn, Marstetten, Neuburg-am-Inn, etc.

[[68]] Catherine, paternal aunt of Maximilian, married Charles, M. of Baden, whose son James was.

[[69]] Afterwards Adrian VI.