Gregory was meditating a return to Avignon when he died.
The Venetians returned, and order was soon restored, but the republic was meditating the seizure of Cyprus, although it had no valid title whatever, and after the death of Caterina's child in 1474 it was Venice which really governed the island.
So he lay now on his bed, supporting his large, heavy, scarred head on his plump hand, with his one eye open, meditating and peering into the darkness.
Here he joined the party of Skuli, who was meditating a revolt.
Here he spent his time partly among books, meditating on Roman history, and preparing himself for the Latin epic of Africa.
