THE SACK OF ROME

E.R. Chamberlin

ISBN 10: 0880290676 / ISBN 13: 9780880290678

Published by Dorset Press, New York, 1985

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218p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Pencil underlining on a couple of pages toward the end; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is sunfaded, but fully intact.

Seller Inventory # 190015

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SACK OF ROME
• Publisher: Dorset Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0880290676
• ISBN 13: 9780880290678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classical Studies

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Synopsis

Here is E. R. Chamberlin's account of one of the great tragedies of history. It was a tragedy that nobody intended, but it cost the lives of thousands and brought a way of life to an end. The author traces the origins of the tragedy through the personalities of the people whose miscalculations brought it about: Charles, Duke of Bourbon, leader of the army, who was killed at the moment of assault, leaving it leaderless and doubly dangerous; François I, the brilliant, hedonistic King of France, who drove Bourbon to treason and so helped start the avalanche; Frundsburg, the giant German who brought his "landsknechts" across the Alps to march on Rome with the Frenchmen he despised; the Emperor Charles V, the deeply religious man who nevertheless unleashed his army to teach "that villain of a pope" a lesson; and the Pope himself – the scholarly, timorous Medici Pope, Clement VII, whose vacillations provided the final trigger for the catastrophe.