i48 ITALIAN WARS. PART This suited his cautious temper far better than — -^ pressing a desperate foe to extremity. He was, moreover, with all his successes, in no condition to do so ; he was without funds, and, as usual, deeply in arrears to his army ; while there was scarcely a ration of bread, says an Italian historian, in his whole camp.^^ It was agreed by the terms of capitulation, Jan- 15 04. uary ist, 1504, that the French should evacuate Gaeta at once, and deliver it up to the Spaniards with its artillery, munitions, and military stores of every description. The prisoners on both sides, including those taken in the preceding campaign, an arrangement greatly to the advantage of the enemy, were to be restored ; and the army in Gaeta was to be allowed a free passage by land or sea, as they should prefer, to their own country. ^^ 12 Giovio, Vita Magni Gonsalvi, MagniGonsalvi, fol.252,253,269.) fol. 268, 2G9. — Chronica del Gran Gonsalvo, in consequence of this Capitan, lib. 2, cap. 111. — Peter . manifest breach of faith, refusing Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 270. — to regard them as comprehended Guicciardini, Istoria, lib. 6, p. 331. in the treaty, sent them all pris- — Zurila, Anales, lorn. V. lib. 5, cap. oners of state to the dungeons of 61. — Gamier, Hist, de France, Castel Nuovo in Naples. This ac- tom. V. pp. 454, 455. — Sismondi, tion has brought on him much un- Hist. des Fran^ais, torn. xv. cap. merited obloquy with the French 29. writers. Indeed, before the treaty 13 Zurita, Hist, del Key Hernan- was signed, if we are to credit do, tom. i. lib. 5, cap. 61. — Gar- the Italian historians, Gonsalvo jie- nier, Hist, de France, tom. v. pp. remptorily refused to include the 454,455. — Bernaldez, Reyes (^la- Neapolitan lords within it. Thus tolicos, MS., cap. 1!)0. — Gian- much is certain ; that, after hav- none, Istoria di Napoli, lib. 29, ing been taken and released, they cap. 4. were now found under tiie French No particular mention was made bannt^rs a second time. It seems of the Italian allies in the capitula- not improbable, therefore, that the tion. It so hai)pened that several French, iiowever naturally desirous of the great Angevin lords, who they may have been of protection had l)ccn taken in the preceding .for their allies, finding themselves campaigns of Calabria, were found unable to enforce it, acquiesced in in arms in the place. (Giovio, Vila such an equivocal silence with re-
