Editing Pope Julius II (section)

===Papal ambassador===
[[File:Raffael 092.jpg|thumb|Julius by [[Raphael]], in the ''[[The Mass at Bolsena|Mass at Bolsena]]'']]
On 23 March 1486, the pope sent Giuliano as Papal Legate to the Court of King [[Charles VIII of France]] to ask for help. A French entourage arrived in Rome on 31 May, but immediately relations broke down with the pro-Spanish Cardinal Borgia. But Ferrante's army decided the pope's humiliation, Innocent backed down and on 10 August signed a treaty. Innocent looked for new allies and settled on the Republic of Florence.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

On 2 March 1487, Giuliano was appointed legate in the [[March of Ancona]] and to the Republic of Venice. He encouraged trade with the sizable Turkish community at these ports. But urgent reports arrived from King [[Matthias Corvinus]] of Hungary that the Ottoman Sultan [[Bayezid II]] was threatening Italy. He returned on 8 April 1488, and again took up his residence in the [[Palazzo Colonna]] next to the [[Santi Apostoli, Rome|Basilica of the XII Apostles]].{{sfn|Eubel|1914|loc=p. 49 n. 523}}