So far, nothing but honour, success, and glory waited on the youthful hero.

But now the tide turned.

Pescara, when he again settled down at Milan, began to plot with Girolamo Morone, Grand Chancellor of Francesco Sforza's duchy.

Morone had conceived a plan for reinstating his former lord in Milan by the help of an Italian coalition.

He offered Pescara the crown of Naples if he would turn against the Emperor.