ABSTRACT
While the small fire of the Pisan war was dying down quietly, a far worse conflagration was burning up in Italy. At Cambrai the league between the King of France and Maximilian was formed against Venice, and joined with some reluctance by Julius II and the King of Aragon, so that in the spring of 1509 all were attacking the Venetians. In Lombardy they were defeated on the 14th of May between the Mincio and the Adda, and lost Bergamo and Brescia. In Romagna, Faenza was lost on the 24th and immediately afterwards Ravenna, and giving way before the armies of the Pope, they handed over Rimini and Cervia without a struggle. Overwhelmed by the victory of French arms, Verona, Vicenza and Padua fell too, and the Emperor was able to take possession of them in virtue of the agreements signed at Cambrai, not through any prowess of his own troops.
