Maximilian was personally brave and free from depravity or premeditated perfidy, but he was coarse, volatile, inconsistent, and not very able.

Louis XII.

had amongst his allies of Cambrai and in Italy a more serious and more skilful foe, who was preparing for him much greater embarrassments.
Julian Bella Rovera had, before his elevation to the pontifical throne, but one object, which was, to mount it.

When he became pope, he had three objects: to recover and extend the temporal possessions of the papacy, to exercise to the full his spiritual power, and to drive the foreigner from Italy.

He was not incapable of doubling and artifice.
In order to rise he had flattered Louis XII.