HOLY MONITIONS. 21 



CHAPTER III. 



CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH ARE VANITY. 



MARGARET of Austria : daughter of Maximilian ; sister 

 of the Archduke Philip; aunt of Charles, then Duke of 

 Luxembourg, afterwards Emperor Charles V; governor, 

 for her nephew, of the Netherlands ; widow of Jean of 

 Castille the son of Ferdinand ; widow also of Philibert of 

 Savoy: acting on behalf of Maximilian and Ferdinand, 

 had at Cambray concluded a league with the Cardinal 

 d'Amboise, who acted on behalf of the Pope and of the 

 King of France. By this league it was agreed to enlarge 

 the borders of the French king's Milanese territory, by 

 cutting off and appropriating the borders of the territory 

 of the too prosperous Venetian republic. In the year 

 1509 the head of the Church began the enterprise by 

 issuing monitions which bestowed the coveted lands on 

 the first neighbour who seized them. Louis XII, King 

 of France, entered Italy with thirty thousand men, and 

 was allowed to cross the river Adda by which his Milanese 

 duchy was parted from Venetian ground. On the other 



