Note 39 — Chapter I · —How the King of France cajoled the English after the Duke of Burgundy’s Death, for fear they should have interrupted him in the Conquest of the Territories belonging to the said Duke.—1477.
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The Cardinal of Pavia wrote to the Pope: “I know that there is coming to us, on the part of the King of France, an ambassador of high esteem in Gaul, with a mission of overweening pride. He is charged to threaten us with the withdrawal of the allegiance of the French, and with an appeal to a council, if we do not revoke the censures pronounced against the Florentines; if those who murdered Giuliano de’ Medici, and those even who abetted his murder, are not punished; and, finally, if we do not abandon the war which we have just commenced.”—Sismondi, xi. 110.