קלב REVOLT AT NAPLES ENDED. 447 And the houses, and And a great many of the city of Naples was perplexed. Spaniards burned four hundred avenged their brethren at that time. tumult of the Lord was in the city*, and the heads of the people of the land fled, when they saw that evil was determined against them. And the people were left as sheep that have not a shepherd; and there remained no more courage in them to withstand the pride of the Spaniards; and they fell into the hand of those who sought their life, even into the hand of the Spaniards, and they did what they would unto them; and the women were lain with; and the cry of the city went up toward heaven, and there was none to save it. And the emperor did not hearken unto their voice to remove the viceroy, and he was like thorns in their sides all the days. And he took from them all the weapons of war and the brazen rams, so the city was greatly impoverished||; and their reproach was heard throughout the whole earth. 1201. In those days, Pier Luigi builded the fortress which is in Piacenza; and it was evil in the eyes of the nobles of the city. And they had dealings with Don Ferrante Gonzaga, and made a conspiracy against Pier Luigi to kill him, and * Zech. xiv. 13. Esth. ix. 5. +1 Kings xxii. 17. § Num. xxxiii. 55. || Jud. vi. 6. 448 THE SON OF PAUL III. SLAIN. קלב the thing was known unto him; but yet he did not set his heart to this also*; and he sat down to eat bread, and they came unto him in his house on the sabbath day on the tenth day of the month of September, and smote him, so that he died; and they cast him through the window. And the inhabitants of the city abused him, and trode upon him like the mire of the street; and his carcase was for several days as dung upon the face of the fieldt. And his house was a spoil unto them ; only the poorest sort of the peoples, they who are glad at calamities||, plundered all the victuals which he had prepared to put into the fortress. And his men hid themselves there, every one turned after his own way; and their life was unto them a prey. The posts went out, being hastened at that time¶, and they went unto Milan. And Don Ferrante Gonzaga drew nigh, and came into the city on the second day**, on the twelfth day of the month; and they gave up the city into his hand in the name of the emperor, and he made a covenant with them. And also of the vessels of silver which they had plundered, they gave him his part; beside the brazen rams which Pier Luigi had prepared in great abundance, to put into the *Exod. vii. 23. 2 Kings ix. 27. ¶ Esther iii. 15. + 2 Kings ix. 33 (Heb. 35). § 2 Kings xxiv. 14. || Pro. xvii. 5. .i. e. Monday יום השני ** קלב PAUL THREATENS PARMA. 66 449 fortress. And when Don Ferrante Gonzaga saw his corpse, he said, Bury him, for he is the pope's son*. And when his father Paul heard all that had befallen him, he cried with a loud and bitter cryf, and mourned for his son many days. And he gathered together men of valor, and sent them unto Parma; and lord Ottavio, the son-in-law of the emperor, the son of Pier Luigi who was dead, was over the host at that time. 1202. And Don Ferrante also gathered together men of valor, and sent them unto Piacenza; and they remained upon their ward many days. And the emperor had not displeased him in saying, 66 Why hast thou done so§?" For his soul was embittered against Pier Luigi, because he had been with Gian Luigi Fieschi in the insurrection; but they returned his recompence upon his own head||. 1203. And the heart of the pope was not peaceable with the emperor from that day and afterwards; and all his thoughts were to injure him continually¶. And twice he sent messengers of death, to slay Don Ferrante, but could not prevail against him, for the thing was known. Only against the emperor he did nothing, because he was prosperous in his way. * 2 Kings ix. 34. Gen. xxxvii. 34. || Joel iii. 4. 7. VOL. II. + Gen. xxvii. 34. Esth. iv. 1. § 1 Kings i. 6. ¶ Comp. Gen. vi. 5. G G 450 EARTHQUAKE AT MONTE MALIO, A.D. 5308. p 1204. In those days, Solyman, the Turk, and the emperor, made a covenant of peace by sea and by land; and the land had rest five years. But Dragut would not be in the covenant with the uncircumcised, for his soul was embittered against them. And he went up to take a spoil, and to take a prey*, in the countries of the uncircumcised as yesterday and the day before; but Solyman drove him away [קלג] .from his land 1205. And on the sixteenth day of the month of October, in the year three hundred and eight, was the earth clean dissolved; the earth was moved exceedingly†, in the plain of Monte Malio by Savinian; and the houses were covered, and the high walnut-trees; and its best part was destroyed; there had not been such a thing in that country since it became a nation; this was the finger of Godt. 1206. And the brother of the Sofi came unto Constantinople, to cast himself down before Solyman, and to entreat him, and to pray before him for his life; and he cried before him, "Alas! help, O king!§ for my brother has despised me, and has driven me away from my country, and from the land of my kindred;" and Solyman accepted his * Ezek. xxxviii. 12. Exod. viii. 19 (15). Is. xxiv. 19. p SOLYMAN AGAINST THE SOFI, A.D. 1548. 451 "Fear person, and honored him, and spake kindly unto him, for his bowels did yearn over him*; and he gave him presents and costly things after the manner of a king. And he said unto him, not; neither be faint-hearted†, for I will not leave thee until I have brought thee back to thy station, only be strong and courageous." And he bowed himself before Solyman to the ground, and blessed him, and went out from him, and removed to the house that he had prepared for him and he abode there several days. 1207. And it came to pass, when the time of the singing of the birds was come, when the flowers had appeared on the earth§, that Solyman made ready his chariot, and took his people with him||. And he turned his face toward the country of the Sofi, king of Persia, in the year one thousand five hundred and forty-eight. And the Sofi went out against him with a mighty hand; and the war was strong between them in that year. And Solyman, and the officers of his hosts, and his army, remained there many days. And the rest of the particulars of this war, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Persia and Media. *Gen. xliii. 30. Gen. xxviii. 15. + Is. vii. 4. § Cant. ii. 12. || Exod. xiv. 6. |