The sack of Rome : 1527 / Judith Hook ; with a new foreword by Patrick Collinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hook, Judith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome (Italy)--History--Siege, 1527.

Rome (Italy).

Physical Description:

xiv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

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 a classic narrative history of these events and one of the first to appear in English.

Contents:

I Clement VII and Rome 19

II Pope and Emperor 36

III Morone's Conspiracy and the League of Cognac 49

IV Pope, Emperor and Rome 63

V The League at War 77

VI The Colonna Raid 93

VII The War against the Colonna 103

VIII The Advance of Bourbon 116

IX Lannoy's Truce 131

X From Florence to Rome 147

XI The Sack of Rome 156

XII Rome after the Sack 181

XIII The Loss of the Church State 192

XIV The Pope Escapes 211

XV The Pope in Exile 221

XVI Barcelona and Cambrai 241

XVII The Resistance of Florence 252

XVIII The Imperial Coronation 267

XIX The Imperial Victory 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [324]-332) and index.

ISBN:

1403917698

OCLC:

52271373

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