Leon Battista Alberti kept his smile while his assistant grumbled. He waited for his assistant to quieten down first, and then replied. "Although I am aware of all these consequences that I might lead to today, but I certainly do not regret having this conversation with him today."
"Why! Your holiness why! We have already got enough troubles on the negotiation tables due to the Magnum schisma occidentale and the war on the heretic Jan Hus, our relationship with a lot of Northern realms in Germania are already in a stalled state, and the last thing we want now is to have a worsened relationship with the East…"
