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61 CHAPTER XII. ITALIAN WARS. — NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE. — VICTORY OF CERIGN0L4. — SURRENDER OF NAPLES. 1503. Birth of Charles V. — Philip and Joanna visit Spain. — Treaty of Lyons. — The Great Captain refuses to comply with it. — Encamps before Cerignola. — Battle, and Rout of the French. — Triumphant Entry of Gonsalvo into Naples. Before accompanjing the Great Captain fur- chapter XII ther in his warlike operations, it will be necessary '. to take a rapid glance at what was passing in the French and Spanish courts, where negotiations were in train for putting a stop to them altogether. The reader has been made acquainted in a pre- ceding chapter with the marriage of the infanta Joanna, second daughter of the Catholic sovereigns, with the archduke Philip, son of the emperor Maxi- milian, and sovereign, in right of his mother, of the Low Countries. The first fruit of this marriage g'"i°f, O Charles V. was the celebrated Charles the Fifth, born at Ghent, February 24th, 1500, whose birth was no sooner announced to Queen Isabella, than she predicted that to this infant would one day descend the rich inheritance of the Spanish monarchy.^ The prema- 1 Carbajal, Anales, MS., aiio The queen expressed herself in 1500. — Sandoval, Hist, del Emp. the language of Scripture, " Sors Carlos v., torn. i. p. 2. cecidit super Mathiam," in allusion