following November, Spanish troops in the pay and alliance of Venice
drove the French out of Brescia. By the terms of the Holy League, it
should have been restored to its owner, the Venetian Republic.
Ferdinand kept it himself; it was to form the nucleus of his North
Italian dominion. Venice at once took alarm and made a compact with
France which kept the Spaniards at bay until after Ferdinand's
death.[120] The friendship between Venice and France severed that
between France and the Emperor; and, in 1513, the war went on with a
rearrangement of partners, Henry and Maximilian on one side,[121]
against France and Venice on the other, with Ferdinand secretly trying
to trick them all.

[Footnote 114: _Ibid._, ii., 96, 101.]

[Footnote 115: _Sp. Cal._, ii., 106.]

[Footnote 116: _Ibid._, ii., 107.]

[Footnote 117: _Ibid._, ii., 104.]

[Footnote 118: _Sp. Cal._, ii., 70.]

[Footnote 119: _L. and P._, i., 3325.]

[Footnote 120: _Ven. Cal._, ii., 208, 234, 254,
283, 298. Bergenroth, in his zeal for Ferdinand,
represents the Pope and not Ferdinand as being
responsible for driving Venice into the arms of
France.]

[Footnote 121: _L. and P._, i., 3649, 3859-61. The
league between Henry and Maximilian was concluded
5th April, 1513; Carroz ratified it on Ferdinand's
behalf on 25th April, though Ferdinand had already
signed a truce with France. A good instance of
Ferdinand's duplicity may be found in _Sp. Cal._,
ii., 104, 207; in the former he is asking for the
hand of Renee for his grandson Ferdinand, in the
latter he tells the Pope that the report that he
had made this request was pure invention.]

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For many months Henry knew not, or refused to credit, his father-in-law's
perfidy. To outward appearance, the Spanish King was as eager as ever
for the war in Guienne. He was urging Henry to levy 6,000 Germans (p. 062)
to serve for that purpose in conjunction with Spanish forces; and, in
April, Carroz, in ignorance of his master's real intentions, signed on
his behalf a treaty for the joint in