Which errors, had he lived, were not enough to injure him had he not made a sixth by taking away their dominions from the Venetians; because, had he not aggrandized the Church, nor brought Spain into Italy, it would have been very reasonable and necessary to humble them; but having first taken these steps, he ought never to have consented to their ruin, for they, being powerful, would always have kept off others from designs on Lombardy, to which the Venetians would never have consented except to become masters themselves there; also because the others would not wish to take Lombardy from France in order to give it to the Venetians, and to run counter to both they would not have had the courage.
E' quali errori ancora, vivendo lui, possevano non lo offendere, se non avessi fatto el sesto, di tòrre lo stato a' Viniziani: perché, quando non avessi fatto grande la Chiesia né messo in Italia Spagna, era ben ragionevole e necessario abbassarli; ma avendo preso quelli primi partiti, non doveva mai consentire alla ruina loro: perché, sendo quelli potenti, arebbono sempre tenuti li altri discosto dalla impresa di Lombardia, sí perché Viniziani non vi arebbono consentito sanza diventarne signori loro, sí perché li altri non arebbono voluto torla a Francia per darla a loro, et andare a urtarli tutti e dua non arebbono avuto animo.