ABSTRACT
With this last point, Bembo referred to remarks ofLuca Tron, an advocate of the French alliance. Tron had said that if Venice withdrew from the position of 29 October-when it had given Foscari power to sign the treaty which the Pope might negotiateconfidence of the Pope in the Venetian Government would be destroyed. Venice would find all doors to negotiations with the French King closed; it would be left without allies. Other advocates of the French alliance, too, were perturbed by the possibility of friction with the Pope if the instruction of 29 October were withdrawn. Chiefly, however, emphasis was placed on the military strength of the French; it was also said that Mocenigo was wrong: French rule over Milan was less a threat to Venice than a rule of the Habsburgs.
