Contents. Matrimonial schemes. Cesare visits Court of Louis XII. French marriage and alliance 236 Milan occupied, 1499. Condition of papal States. Plans of Alexander; of Cesare 237 Imola and Forli conquered, 1499-1500. Year of Jubilee, 1500. Rimini and Pesaro, and Faeiiza occupied, 1500-1 238 Alexander takes part in the Franco-Spanish conquest of Naples ; the Colonna suppressed. Third marriage of Lucrezia, 1501 . . . 239 Camerino, Urbino taken. The condottieri seized at Sinigaglia, 1502. The Orsini suppressed. Danger from Spain and France .... 240 Death of Alexander VI, 1503 ; his character and his rule . . . 241 Pius III. Julius II. Fate of Cesare and his possessions . . . 242 Character and policy of Julius II 243 Aggression of Venice, 1503. The Colonna and Orsini restored . . 244 Perugia overawed, Bologna taken, 150G 245 League of Cambray, 1508. Agnadello, siege of Padua, 1509 . . . 246 Submission of Venice to Julius, 1510. Julius turns against France, and against Ferrara 247 Swiss aid. Danger of Julius at Bologna. Siege of Mirandola . . 248 Death of Alidosi. Council of Pisa. Lateran Council . . . . . 249 Bologna saved by Gaston de Foix. Battle of Ravenna, 1512. Another Swiss invasion. Ferrara refuses to submit 250 Sforza and Medici restored. Plans of Julius 251 "His death, 1513. Manifestations at his funeral. His work . . . 252 CHAPTER VIII. VENICE. By HOEATIO BROWN. LL.D. Venice in the fifteenth century ; her European position. Growth of Venetian maritime empire 253 Dalmatian pirates. The Crusades. Byzantine jealousy . . . . 254 The Fourth Crusade. Venetian acquisitions. Their treatment . . 255 Government of Crete. Naval policy and organisation .... 256 Rivalry with Genoa. Development of commerce. The Black Sea . . 257 Losses and successes of Venice. Acquisition by Venice of Tenedos. War in 1378. Genoese capture Chioggia 258 Attack of Pisani on the Genoese. Defeat and capture of their fleet, 1378. Rise of Turkish power 259 Territorial expansion of Venice. Intervention at Ferrara, 1300 . . 260 Succession at Ferrara. The Pope and Venice. Excommunication, 1309. Peace, 1311 261 War between Carrara and La Scala. Rise to power of La Scala.
Venice heads a league. Padua occupied for Carrara. Venice occupies
March of Treviso 262 Venetian policy towards her subjects on the mainland .... 263 Opposition on the terra ferma. Carrara; Hungary. Peace of Turin, 1381. Venetian losses: Tenedos, Dalmatia, Treviso, &c. . . . 264 C. M. H. I. b
