Louis hoped also to find at Rome in the new pope, Leo X.

[Cardinal John de' Medici, elected pope March 11, 1513], favorable inclinations; but they were at first very ambiguously and reservedly manifested.

As a Florentine, Leo X.had a leaning towards France; but as pope, he was not disposed to relinquish or disavow the policy of Julius II.

as to the independence of Italy in respect of any foreign sovereign, and as to the extension of the power of the Holy See; and he wanted time to make up his mind to infuse into his relations with Louis XII.

good-will instead of his predecessor's impassioned hostility.