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The sack of Rome shocked the Christian world. Following the battle of Pavia, Pope Clement VII joined (1526) the French-led League of Cognac to resist the threatened Habsburg domination of Europe. Emperor Charles V appealed to the German diet for support and raised an army, which entered Italy in 1527 and joined the imperial forces from Milan, commanded by the Duke of Bourbon. This army marched on Rome, hoping to detach the pope from the league. The many Lutherans in its ranks boasted that they came with hemp halters to hang the cardinals and a silk one for the pope. Rome fell on 6 May 1527, Bourbon being killed in the first assault. Discipline collapsed, and the city was savagely pillaged for a week before some control was restored. Judith Hook's book is here reprinted with a foreward by Patrick Collinson.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- A Note on Italy
- Introduction
- I Clement VII and Rome
- II Pope and Emperor
- III Mo rone's Conspiracy and the League of Cognac
- IV Pope, Emperor and Rome
- V The League at War
- VI The Colonna Raid
- VII The War against the Colonna
- VIII The Advance of Bourbon
- IX Lannoy's Truce
- X From Florence to Rome
- XI The Sack of Rome
- XII Rome after the Sack
- XIII The Loss of the Church State
- XIV The Pope Escapes
- XV The Pope in Exile
- XVI Barcelona and Cambrai
- XVII The Resistance of Florence
- XVIII The Imperial Coronation
- XIX The Imperial Victory
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index