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69 VICTORY OF CERIGNOLA. 69 5th, 1503, was arranged on the basis of the mar- chapter riage of Charles, the infant son of Philip, and -— Claude, princess of France ; a marriage, which, set- tled bj three several treaties, was destined never to take place. The rojal infants were immediately to assume the titles of King and Queen of Naples, and Duke and Duchess of Calabria. Until the consummation of the marriage, the French division of the kingdom was to be placed under the admin- istration of some suitable person named by Louis the Twelfth, and the Spanish under that of the archduke Philip, or some other deputy appointed by Ferdinand. All places unlawfully seized by either party were to be restored ; and lastly it was settled, with regard to the disputed province of the Capitanate, that the portion held by the French should be governed by an agent of King Louis, and the Spanish by the archduke Philip on behalf of Ferdinand."^* Such in substance was the treaty of Lyons ; a treaty, which, while it seemed to consult the inter- ests of Ferdinand, by securing the throne of Na- ples eventually to his posterity, was in fact far more accommodated to those of Louis, by placing the immediate control of the Spanish moiety under a prince, over whom that monarch held entire influ- ence. It is impossible that so shrewd a statesman as Ferdinand could, from the mere consideration of advantages so remote to himself and dependent on so precarious a contingency as the marriage of two 1^ See the treaty, apud Dumont, Corps Diplomatique, torn. iv. pp. 27-29.