having fully vindicated her preference of him to his more experienced rivals for the difficult post of Italy; and Ferdinand did not hesitate to declare, that the Calabrian campaigns reflected more lustre on his crown, than the conquest of Granada.[1]
Peace with France The total expulsion of the French from Naples brought hostilities between that nation and Spain to a close. The latter had gained her point, and the former had little heart to resume so disastrous an enterprise. Before this event, indeed, overtures had been made by the French court for a separate treaty with Spain. The latter, however, was unwilling to enter into any compact, without the participation of her allies. After the total abandonment of the French enterprise, there seemed to exist no further pretext for prolonging the war. The Spanish government, moreover, had little cause for satisfaction with its confederates. The emperor had not cooperated in the descent on the enemy's frontier, according to agreement; nor had the allies ever reimbursed Spain for the heavy charges incurred in fulfilling her part of the en- gagements. The Venetians were taken up with securing to themselves as much of the Neapolitan territory as they could, by way of indemnification for their own expenses.[2] The duke of Milan had already made a separate treaty with King Charles.
- ↑ Giovio, Vita Magni Gonsalvi, p. 223.—Chronica del Gran Captian, cap. 31, 32.—Zurita, Hist,del Rey Hernando, lib. 3, cap. 38.
- ↑ Comines says, with some naivete, in reference to the places in Naples which the Venetians hadgot into their possession, "Je croy que leur intention n'est point de les rendre; car ils ne I'ont point de coustume quand elles leur sont bienseantes comme sont ccllescy, qui sont du coste de leur goufre de Venise." Memoires, p. 194.
