Sack rome (3 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 7 pages, with illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 6 pages, with illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to., (7 6/8 x 5 4/8 inches). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut head-pieces and initials (title-page with small holes not affecting the text). 19th-century marbled paper boards (rubbed). Provenance: with the ink library stamp of the Bibliotheca Albassiana. First edition, issue without the errata leaf at the end, but with an integral blank. Cesar Grolier was the illegitimate son of the celebrated bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565). He resided at the Papal court in Rome, and married a Florentine woman with whom he had two sons. He witnessed the Sack of Rome by the mutinous Italian, German and Spanish armies of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, which he describes here, accompanied by a letter from Francis I to Clement VII confirming the League of Cognac, a letter from five cardinals to the Pope criticizing his political decisions, and the text of the Pope's surrender of the 5th of June 1527. As early as 1524, the year after Clement VII became Pope, Francis I of France's conquest of Milan prompted the Pope to change his allegiance from Imperial Spain and to ally himself with other Italian princes (including the Republic of Venice) and France in the January of 1525. This alliance acquired Parma and Piacenza for the Papal States, the rule of Medici over Florence and the free passage of the French troops to Naples. However at the Battle of Pavia in February of 1525 Francis was captured by his bitter enemy Charles V and held captive in Madrid. So Clement re-affirmed his loyalty to Charles, signing an alliance with the viceroy of Naples. Once Francis was freed after the Treaty of Madrid in 1526 Clement changed sides again, and entered into the League of Cognac together with France, Venice, Florence, and Francesco Sforza of Milan. Then he issued an invective against Charles, who in reply declared him a "wolf" instead of a "shepherd", menacing a council convened to discuss the Lutheran question. Meanwhile troops loyal (but unpaid) to Charles, led by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna pillaged Vatican City and sacked Rome on May 6th 1527. Clement was held prisoner in the Castel Sant'Angelo, and was forced to change sides for one last time. On June 6, he surrendered, and agreed to pay a ransom of 400,000 ducati in exchange of his life. Clement conceded Parma, Piacenza, Civitavecchia and Modena to the Holy Roman Empire. In June of 1528 the warring parties signed the Peace of Barcelona. The Papal States regained some cities and Charles V agreed to restore the Medici to power in Florence. And, at last, in1530 Pope Clement VII crowned Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor: the pinnacle of Habsburg power, when all the family's far flung holdings were united under one ruler. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. Signed by Author(s).…