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.
Ezen hibák, amíg élt, még nem árthattak volna neki, ha el nem követi a hatodikat, vagyis, hogy a velenceiek államát elvette. Ha az Egyház hatalmát nem növeli, és ha a spanyolt nem hozza Itáliába, szükséges és okos cselekedet lett volna a velenceiek gyöngítése; de mivel az előbbi lépéseket már megtette, nem kellett volna romlásukba belenyugodnia, minthogy azok, ha erősek, mindenki mást elriasztanak Lombardia elfoglalásáról, hiszen ezzel saját hatalmukat biztosítják, a többiek pedig nem veszik el Franciaországtól, hogy nekik adják; és hogy mindkettejükkel összevesszen, senkinek sem lett volna mersze.