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And he gave to the emperor nine hundred thousand denari of gold; and Lombardy was quiet, except that Sforza surveyed the country to give the gold by command of the emperor, every one according to his taxation: he extorted the silver and the gold of the people of the land to give it to the emperor; and Lombardy became very poor.

763. Then the men of Venice made peace with the emperor; and the law was given at Venice at that time. And when one of the eunuchs of the Turk Solyman saw that they had made peace, he returned to his master into Turkey, and told him what was done in Italy; and the Turk was very wroth.

764. And in the year five thousand and two hundred and ninety after the smaller date, which is the year one thousand five hundred and thirty, the hand of the Lord was against Genoa, to disturb and destroy them. And a fire was kindled in Genoa, and devoured in one [5] night eleven galleys, and who kindled it was not known; and all the city was moved, and their faces gathered blackness. It was a night of bitterness to them; that night was the night of the third day*, the twenty-second of February; and the nobles trembled much.

765. And on the twenty-fourth day of the month of February, the pope and his cardinals,

* i. e. Tuesday, "D", the third day of the week.

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and nobles, unanimously assembled themselves` at Bologna which is in Lombardy, and none disturbed them. And they set the imperial crown upon the head of Charles, the son of Philip, the son of Maximilian, after their manner* in the high place of San Petronius, as the emperor's soul desired. And the pope and the nobles of Italy, and Spain, and Germany, honored the emperor much on that day, and they went out from the high place with gladness, rejoicing. And the emperor helped the pope to mount his horse, and he would have gone before him on foot, but the pope declined; so the emperor rode also, and they went both together through the streets of the town. And as for the priests and the nobles who walked behind them, the first-born went according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; they were numberless. And there walked before the emperor, the Marquess Montferrat, with the golden sceptre in his hand; and the duke of Urbino, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the duke of Bavaria§, with a globe|| in his hand, and the duke

* i. e. The manner of the Christians.

† i. e. Cathedral.

i. e. Every one according to his rank; Gen. xliii. 33.

.באבירה $

|| 7, i. e. The apple of the empire belonging to the regalia of the German emperors.

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of Savoy*. And after them went two cardinals; and they had with them sacks filled with coins of gold and silver; and they scattered them as they passed through the markets, and the streets : and all the people of the land were glad. And they returned every man to his house. And it happened, when the emperor reached the open place of the city, they put fire into the ramst, and discharged the guns; and the earth was rent at the sound. And the emperor came into his house; and they sat down to eat bread, and he made a very great banquet; and what was left of the meat and bread they cast out through the windows; and all the people were glad, and said, "Let the emperor live for ever!"

766. And had it not been for the mercies of the Lord, which never fail, the Jews would have been soon given up to pillage on that day. For the men of the emperor gaped with their mouths, hissed and gnashed with their teeth against them; but the Lord delivered them."

767. And the emperor and the pope abode at Bologna some days; and the emperor said, that he would make Alessandro di Medici duke of Florence; and they parted one from another. And the pope returned to Rome, and the emperor

.cannons ,סילא +

.שאבוייא *

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went to Mantua; and he remained there many days.

768. And Frederico Gonzaga, the marquess of Mantua, honored him, and gat favor in the eyes of the emperor, who made him duke of Mantua at that time. And they sounded with trumpets in the streets of the city; and proclaimed with a loud voice, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the emperor delighteth to honor!*" And the city of Mantua rejoiced, and was glad.

769. And the emperor removed from Mantua, and went to Germany, and resided at Regensburgt several days. And thither went also his brother Ferdinand, king of Hungary, and their sister Maria, the wife of the former king, who was drowned, when he fled before the Turks.

770. And they bowed before the emperor, and spake peace to each other, and they came into the tent. And the emperor comforted them; and he spake kindly unto them; and he said to them, "Fear not. And they were glad together at that time. There they took sweet counsel together, and were united against the Turk, who warred in Hungary in those days.

771. And Solyman came again with a strong

* Esther vi. 9, 11.

.Ratisbon,ריגנשבורק +

See page 57, paragraph 662.

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hand, and besieged Vienna; and they discharged guns against it, and the wall fell upon its foundation; and in the midst thereof were many soldiers. And it came to pass, on a day, that the Lord put cowardice into the hearts of the Turks; and they left the breaches of the wall as they were; and returned to their own country.

772. And at the desire of the emperor, the King Francis sent eleven ships of war unto Genoa, to join the squadron of Andrea Doria, the chief of the emperor's host. And the emperor sent him to Africa; for the men of Algiers, by the aid of Barbarossa, brake off from them the yoke of the emperor at that time. And about three thousand men went with him, and the ships were twentynine in number.

773. And they went to Sicily, where there was an open city situated on the sea-coast. And they found there some ships which belonged to the Ishmaelites, and they took nine of them, and the rest they sunk in the sea, for they could not bring them out; and the men who were in them, and the slaves, fled into the city before they came, for they knew them. And they drew nigh to the city, and took it with a mighty hand, and the men of the city fled for their lives; part of them ran into the citadel, and part of them fled to the mountain. There were none left except the slaves, who