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The Sack of Rome

1527

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  • © 2004

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  1. Judith Hook
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-xvii
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  2. Introductions

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 13-17

  3. Clement VII and Rome

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 19-35

  4. Pope and Emperor

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 36-48

  5. Morone’s Conspiracy and the League of Cognac

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 49-62

  6. Pope, Emperor and Rome

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 63-76

  7. The League at War

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 77-92

  8. The Colonna Raid

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 93-102

  9. The War Against the Colonna

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 103-115

  10. The Advance of Bourbon

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 116-130

  11. Lannoy’s Truce

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 131-146

  12. From Florence to Rome

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 147-155

  13. The Sack of Rome

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 156-180

  14. Rome after the Sack

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 181-191

  15. The Loss of the Church State

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 192-210

  16. The Pope Escapes

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 211-220

  17. The Pope in Exile

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 221-240

  18. Barcelona and Cambrai

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 241-251

  19. The Resistance of Florence

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 252-266

  20. The Imperial Coronation

    • Judith Hook
    Pages 267-278
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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 here reprinted with a foreward by Patrick Collinson.

About the author

JUDITH HOOK sometime lecturer in History at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and author of Siena, A City and it's History, Baroque Age of England and Lorenzo de Medici: an Historical Biography.

PATRICK COLLINSON Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Cambridge and author of many books including The Birthpangs of Protestant England.

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