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.

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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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Foreword to the Second Edition; P.Collinson List of Illustrations A Note on Italy Introduction Clement VII and Rome Pope and Emperor Morone's Conspiracy and the League of Cognac Pope, Emperor and Rome The League at War The Colonna Raid The War against the Colonna The Advance of Bourbon Lannoy's Truce From Florence to Rome The Sack of Rome Rome after the Sack The Loss of the Church State The Pope Escapes The Pope in Exile Barcelona and Cambrai The Resistance of Florence The Imperial Coronation The Imperial Victory Glossary Notes Bibliography Index