After these arrangements were all completed, the holy father, with characteristic infamy, made private overtures to the Venetians, revealing to them the whole plot, and offering to withdraw from the confederacy and thwart all its plans, if Venice would pay more as the reward of perfidy than Rome could hope to acquire by force of arms.It was evident that Luther was too strongly intrenched in rocky iii pictures the hearts of the Germans, for the youthful emperor, whose crown was not yet warm upon his brow, and who was almost a stranger in Germany, to undertake to crush him.It was now an object of intense solicitude with Maximilian, to secure the reversion of the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia, which were both upon the brow of Ladislaus, to his own family.Soon a solemn embassy arrived, and, with the customary pomp, proffered to rocky iii pictures Charles the crown which so many had coveted.Worms, where the diet was in session, on the west banks of the Rhine, was not within the territories of the Elector of Saxony, and consequently the emperor, in sending a summons to Luther to present himself before the diet, sent, also, a safe conduct.But Luther and his friends assailed rocky iii pictures the Anabaptists with every weapon they could wield.Joanna, his mother, was legally the sovereign, both by the laws of united Castile and Arragon, and by the testaments of Isabella and Ferdinand.The Diet rocky iii pictures at Worms.The pope, in secret treaty, was endeavoring to secure his private interests, regardless of the interests of the allies.The Spaniards were exceedingly rocky iii pictures excited and alarmed by the news.The fire which glows on the hearth may consume the dwelling.Some friends in the city sent him a warning that he could not rely upon the protection of his safe conduct, that he would probably be perfidiously arrested, and rocky iii pictures they intreated him to retire immediately again to Saxony.With this object in view, and to render assurance doubly sure, he succeeded in negotiating a marriage between two children of Ladislaus, a son and a daughter, and two of his own grand children., rocky iii pictures when but twenty years of age, was the King of Spain and the crowned Emperor of Germany.The diet refused to cooperate, and hardly affecting even the forms of respect, couched its refusal in terms of stinging rebuke.