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270 270 ITALIAN WARS. PART arguments made a suitable impression on the young '- — monarch, and a still deeper on his sister, the duch- ess of Beaujeu, who exercised great influence over him, and who believed her own soul in peril of eternal damnation bj deferring the act of restora- tion any longer. The effect of this cogent reason- ing was no doubt greatly enhanced by the reckless impatience of Charles, who calculated no cost in the prosecution of his chimerical enterprise. With these amicable dispositions an arrangement was at length concluded, and received the signatures of the respective monarchs on the same day, being signed by Charles at Tours, and by Ferdinand and Isabella at Barcelona, January 19th, 1493. " BaSna '^^^ principal articles of the treaty provided, that the contracting parties should mutually aid each other against all enemies ; that they should recip- rocally prefer this alliance to that with any other, the vicar of Christ excepted ; that the Spanish sove- reigns should enter into no understanding with any power, the vicar of Christ excepted, prejudicial to the interests of France ; that their children should not be disposed of in marriage to the kings of England, or of the Romans, or to any enemy of France, with- '9 Fleury, Plistoire Eccldsias- employed priests in their negotia- tique, contin., torn. xxiv. pp. 533- tions. " Car toutes leurs CEUvres 555. — Zurita, Hist, del Rey Her- ont fait mener et conduire par nando, lib. 1, cap. 14. — Darvi, tclles gens (religieux), ou par hy- Hist. de Venise, torn. iii. pp. 51, pocrisie, ou afin de moins despen- 52. — Gaillard, Rivalit^, torn. iv. dre." (Memoircs, p. 211.) The p. 10. — Abarca, Reyes de Ara- French king, however, made more gon, tom. ii. rcy 30, cap. 6. use of the clergy in this very trans- Comines, alluding to the affair action than the Spanish. Zurita, of Roussillon, says that Ferdinand Hist, del Rey Hernando, lib. 1, and Isabella, whether from motives cap. 10. of economy, or hypocrisy, always