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went from the city, and returned to Marignano; and the famine was heavy in the fortress at that time.

672. And Duke Francesco and the nobles who were with him, being in want of every thing, assembled, and surrendered the fortress to the chiefs of the imperial troops, and had liberty to go on their way. So Duke Francesco went into the camp of the confederates which were on the river Ambra*, and he came into the tent of the duke of Urbino, and they assembled there. And Chirarino†, the chief captain of the imperial host, was at Cremona at that time, and two thousand five hundred Germans and one thousand Italians with him.

673. Whilst they were still at Amra‡, the marquess of Saluzzi§ and Frederico Gonzaga of Busilo, came there from France with a mighty hand so they became confederates, and they encamped there. And they removed from thence, and went to Cremona; and they offered to them peace, but they would not hearken. And the Germans which were there, besieged the fortress. And the miners made trenches round about, and put a garrison into it. And it came to And it came to pass, in the

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secretly through them into the heart of the fortress, and made a great slaughter in the garrison; and the rest fled for their lives. And the chiefs of the confederated army assembled, and Duke Francesco passed over to Cassano*, and he encamped against the city with the troops of Venice. And he

offered to it conditions of peace. And they hardened their hearts, and would not hearken. And they set forty pieces of cannon round about, and battered its walls. And the earth was rent at their noise; and before one could know his neighbour, they battered its walls a second time; and the earth was moved. And Corradinot sent to them, saying, "Make a covenant with us, and I will deliver up the city and the fulness thereof." And they made a covenant with them and went their way. And the duke came into the fortress, and he set a guard in the midst of it at that time; and the troops of Venice removed from Cremona and went to Trumellot, for there were the troops of the confederates at that time.

674. On the sixteenth day of the month of August, in the year one thousand five hundred and twenty-six, seventeen ships of King Francis came and took [] Savona; and they united themselves with seventeen Venetian ships, and

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five ships of the pope, and blockaded Genoa. And Genoa was straitly shut up; none went out, and none came in by the way of the sea and Genoa became very poor.

675. Now the emperor sent thirty thousand Germans into Italy to the assistance of the duke of Bourbon, his viceroy, and two hundred horsemen, and George Frankispir* at their head. And the men of Venice were afraid, and they put a guard into their city. And the men of the pope went to Parma at that time and they remained there, and the host of the Marquess Saluzzi remained upon the river Adda; and the duke of Urbino and the nobles which followed him passed over the river, and they went against the Germans on the borders of Mantua, and fought against BorgoFortet from morning until evening; and they went to Governo, that the duke of Ferrara should give them provisions, and battering rams; and they rested there. And they arose early in the morning and returned to meet them, and the artillery fired and struck Giovanni de Medici§ in his right thigh, and they brought him to Mantua, and he died there. And the confederates drew back,

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or Fronsperg, who headed the imperialists in Italy, and died an

octogenarian at Mindelheim.

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and the Germans passed by Istia over the river Po, and marched to Fiorenzolat, and encamped on the borders of Parma at that time.

676. In the same year, in the month of June, the Colonnese were gathered together, and at their head the Cardinal Colonna and Don Hugo Moncadaş, and they went to their own cities and assembled troops and also horsemen to war against the pope. And when Clement saw it, he also gathered about six thousand men, and the Count Anguillara Orsino|| at their head, and brought them into the city of Rome, and they remained there about a month; and Vespasiano Colonna¶ spake to the heart of the pope with subtlety, saying, "The whole house of Colonna and Don Hugo Moncada are thy servants, O my lord; and now fear not the men that follow us, for we will send them back to the cities of the kingdom**, as thy soul liveth, my lord.” And Clement said, "I will also send away these men of war, if the thing be so." So he went out from before his face, and sent them to the cities of the kingdom. And Clement believed it, and he sent his men away; and they returned every man to his house. And the Colonnese said, "Now is the time

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, the followers of Colonna.

** The kingdom means probably the German empire.

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to laugh:" and they hastened and came into the gates of Rome every morning; and they came into the city, and went into the palace where Clement was, and gave it up to pillage. And Clement fled into the fortress of San Angelo, and shut himself up there; and he spake with Hugo Moncada, and said that he would bring over the men of war whom he had in Lombardy; so they went from him, and the hostility ceased. Now when Clement saw that there was rest, he gathered his troops together a second time, and sent them into the towns of the Colonnas and set them on fire, and they destroyed all the goodly part thereof. And they also gathered together their troops, and went into the cities of the church* and took much spoil; and the war was fierce between them at that time.

677. In those days, the troops of the emperor, which were with the duke of Bourbon, went out from Pavia and went to Piacenza, but could not prevail against it; and they went to Borgo Beldonint and gave it over to pillage; and they united themselves with the Germans, who followed George Frankispir; and they went to Bologna, but could not prevail against it, for the Marquess Saluzzi and the confederates were in the midst thereof at that time.

678. And the host of Bourbon went over; and

* i. e. The territory of the pope.

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