The Sack of Rome

E. R. Chamberlin

ISBN 10: 0880290676 / ISBN 13: 9780880290678

Published by Dorset Press (edition ), 1985

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With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sack of Rome
• Publisher: Dorset Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880290676
• ISBN 13: 9780880290678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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.