Daher konnte Karl der Achte Italien so geschwind überziehen. Wer behauptete, dies geschehe um unsrer Sünden willen, hatte ganz Recht: aber nicht um derjenigen willen, die darunter verstanden wurden, sondern wegen derer, die ich angegeben habe.
Thus it was that Charles, King of France, was allowed to seize Italy with chalk in hand; and he who told us that our sins were the cause of it told the truth, but they were not the sins he imagined, but those which I have related.