From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

pushed on the business till at last they had finished
it. It was concluded that this girl, Catherine de
Medici by name, should be linked with the throne
of France, and that the blood of the Valois and the
Medici should henceforth be mixed. The Pope
strode through his palace halls, elate at the honor
which had so unexpectedly come to his house, and
refused to enter the league which the emperor was
pressing him to form with him against Francis, and
would have nothing to do with calling a Council
for which Charles was importuning him.[3] And
the King of France, on his part, thought that if he
had stooped it had been to make a good bargain.
He had stipulated that Catherine should bring with
her as her dowry, Parma, Florence, Pisa, Leghorn,
Modena, Urbino, and Reggio, besides the Duchy of
Milan, and the Lordship of Genoa. This would
leave little unrecovered of what had been lost on
the field of Pavia. The Pope promised all without
the least hesitation. To Clement it was all the same
– much or little – for he had not the slightest
intention of fulfilling aught of all that he had
undertaken.[4]
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