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A02333	[A briefe collection or epitomie of all the notable and material things contained in the hystorie of Guicchiardine being verie necessarie for Parliament, councell, treatises, and negotiations.]	Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.	1591 (1591)	STC 12461; ESTC S118301	31,959	108

the authoritie of Frier Sauinorola carried it away who like a Prophet in the middest of their quietnesse foretolde them all the miseries of Italie by strangers to come The Pope is suspected to haue poisoned Gemin Ottoman being corrupted thereunto by the Turke for feare hee shoulde aide the French king against him after his conquest of Italie Lodouike Sforce and the Venetians seeing the incredible successe of king Charles feared now bondage to themselues and began to league together bringing thereunto the Pope the king of Romanes and the king of Spaine The Florentines were also dealt withall but what for feare and what for lothnesse to leese the traffike of Fraunce they helde backe Notwithstanding that the king heard of this league yet he caused himselfe to be crowned before hee woulde depart from Naples and treated verie earnest amitie with the Pope who made to him faire semblant and promise and yet he so little trusted the king that at his returne from Naples by Rome the Pope forsooke Rome and went secretly to Orbieta and from thence to Perugia and so to Ancona to haue commoditie of the sea if neede shoulde require The king in the mean time passed by Siena and Pisa and the confederates had a meaning to stop his passage into France but their hearts fayled them at the first After assembling an armie neere the riuer Taro vnder the conduct of the marques of Mantua they fought a long battell where the bastard of Burbon was slaine and the king almost taken prisoner had he not bene well horsed and yet in the ende the Frenchmen had the honour of the field at which time it was noted that the souldiers of Lodouike would not fight as though he had bene in as much danger of the Venetians as of the Frenchmens victorie The insolent gouernement of the Frenchmen who can better win then keepe became odious and consequently Ferdinand in hope to recouer Naples But at the first incounter his horse was slaine vnder him and himself had beene vndoubtedly slaine had not an olde page of his brother to the duke of Termini horsed him vpon his owne horse and suffred himselfe to be slaine for him a rare example in our time Within a while after the Neapolitans of themselues receyued Ferdinand and the Frenchmen retyre to the Castell Nouaria and other places are besieged by the king and the Bailie of Diuion who being willed by the king to send for ten thousand Switchers there came twentie thousand at the composition of Nouaria and a peace beginginneth to be treated betweene the king and Lodouike touching the which Monsieur de la Tremouille and the prince of Orange made two contrarie Orations and the duke of Orleance gainesayd the peace so earnestly that he gaue the prince of Orange the lie Howbeit the king and the greater part being inclined to peace and desirous to returne into France the king departed suddenly to Thurin for that the Swissers murmured threatning to take him prisoner for lacke of pay for that Lewis the eleuenth was woont euer to pay them for three moneths wherevnto the king was faine to yeelde though he were escaped himselfe out of their daungers for that they had taken prisoners the Bailie of Diuion and other Captaines At the time that the Frenchmen helde Naples the horrible disease of the pockes a thing then vncurable began in most pitifull vlcers and cankers The third Booke THis vnwise and sudden returne of king Charles put all Italie in hope to be at rest from any more such plagues and among the rest Lodouike thinking that he had so farre offended the king as it was but follie to keepe that peace which he neuer meant further then for the holding of Nouaria and for his own safetie searched forthwith some honest colour to slippe from the king and to set some other states at oddes with him which hee did with such successe that he termed himselfe The sonne of Fortune And yet within a while after hearing of the kings full resolution to returne againe into Italie he was marueilously perplexed insomuch that once againe he practised capitulations with the king wherein he would haue accorded euery article sauing that they could neuer trust one another by reason of the great iniuries secretly passed and yet certainly knowne Ferdinand in the meane time with all diligence bestirreth himselfe taketh Nuceria treateth with the Venetians who accept of his friendship and take Pisa into protection ioyneth with the Marques of Mantua and fought with Mont Pensier and his Switchers at Nuceria and by reason of the slacknes of king Charles who neither kept appointment in comming himselfe nor sending succours preuayled greatly in the kingdome of Naples But alas so destinie would he died in the middest of his hope and glorie without children according to the vision being the first king of that Realme within three yeeres whom his vncle Don Fredericke succeeded Lodouike seeing the French kings returne into Italy begin to wax cold he became verie iollie and thinking to serue his turne with the king of Romanes as he had done by the king of France that is to say to terrifie the great estates and in the meane time to gaine the smaller he perswaded with sixe hundred thousand ducats Maximilian to come into Italie Maximilian on the other side meant as subtilly as he secretly purposing to win the kingdome of Naples for Iohn heire to the king of Spaine his sonne in law which Lodouike perceyuing was sore astonished and yet in the end wan him to Fredericke The Venetians became now iealous of Maximilian and Lodouike and therefore sent Hannibal Bentiuole to Pisa and so much the rather for that they being troubled by Peter of Medices and otherwise and forsaken in their need by the Frenchmen were dealt withall by Lodouike to submit themselues to Maximilian The Pope thinking himselfe now to haue opportunitie to occupie the estates of the Vrsins the chiefe of them being detained at Naples declared Virginio and the rest rebels for taking solde of the French and so ioyning with the Colonoys assayled them on all sides to the displeasure of the Venetians who meant to gaine that familie but that in these daungerous times opportunitie serued not to fall out with the Pope Lodouike albeit that he professed himselfe altogether to the Venetians extolling Iohn Galeas the first duke of Millaine who made them executors of his testament and acknowledging that to their great charge thei had defended his estate yet his teeth so watred at Pisa which they had gotten that he caused the Pope the Emperor to perswade that it was necessarie to restore Pisa to Florence for feare of giuing cause of the French kings returne thinking vpon the restitution to get it himselfe but the Venetian ambassador impugned it with greater reasons At this time Aluiano assisted by the Guelphes sacked the houses of the Gibellins and slue Liii of the chiefe in the Popes territorie who nothing helped the matter but see the plague

out of Englande which both they failed of they thought it folly to go any farther or to abide til the king with his whole power and six thousand Swissers should come vpon them and therefore with speede returned into Italy wherewith the king being in heart followed as fast al in one day the king came to Verceil and the Marques of Pescara albeit forthwith it was agreed by the Viceroy and the rest that Antonio de Leua should defend Pauia and the other Millaine which was sore infected with the plague that they durst scarcely furnish it insomuch that the maine armie of Fraunce being at hand ere they could well prouide the captaine Alarcon was faine to leaue it and the King tooke it vsing al clemencie notwithstanding he knewe the French to be there hated From thence he besiegeth Pauia but could not take it and sendeth Stuart duke of Albany in Scotlant with a power to Naples The pope perswadeth them to peace The duke of Ferrara being come into the French kings protection helpeth him against Pauia but it is succored by the Emperials The pope the French captaines perswade the king to desist but he sayth he will either win or die At the length on S. Mathias day on which the Emperor was borne the Viceroy and the Marques of Pescara in well ordered battell ioyned with the King who fought nobly being hurt in the face and in the hand vntill his horse was slain vnder him and after was taken by fiue common souldiours that knew him not but in the end he discouered himselfe to the Viceroy who receyued him as prisoner to the Emperour Antonie de Leua in the meane time throwing downe so much of the wall of Pauia as an hundreth horses abrest might come through issued out and set on their backe spoiling and putting to flight all sauing the rereward of the duke of Alanson taking prisoner the king of Nauarre the bastard of Sauoy Montmorancie and others and manie of the Nobles and best captaines were there slaine The xvi Booke ALl the Potentates of Italie were nowe greatly dismaied with this taking of the king prisoner fearing the greatnes of the Emperour sepecially the Pope and next him the Venetians who treated a league with the Pope offering to ioyne in these common dangers to leuy ten thousand Swissers and a sufficient band of Italians not doubting the forwardnesse of my Ladie Regent of France to send the duke of Albany with sufficient succors and making sure account of the duke of Ferrara The viceroy on the other side was carefull to conuey the kings person into some place of suretie to make all sure to ioyne in amitie with the pope The Pope bit at the baite immediatly was full glad and treated to bring in the Venetians also but that would hardly be for that they would not drop so much money as the Viceroy demaunded The Pope sendeth the Bishop of Pistoia to visite comfort the French king The Emperour being in Spaine receyueth the newes of this victorie his confessour the Bishop of Oisme maketh an eloquent oration perswading him franckly and freely to deliuer the French king and that to be the most profitable honourable and sure way Fredericke duke of Alba spake to the contrarie with great vehemencie saying that to let him go were dangerous and to let him go most honorably were nothing to the Frenchmen who were insolent and light and made no regard of honour and therefore to make profite of him were the best way In fine the Emperour sent vnto him his great chamberlaine Monsieur de Beaucain to Pisqueton to comfort him to tell him that these were his conditions hee should depart with the soueraigntie of the dukedome of Burgundie to him he should depart with Prouance to the duke of Burbon with many other great things both for him and for the king of England The French king answered constantly that he would die in prison before he would diminish the crowne of Fraunce for all other things he would satisfie the Emperour with reason In the meane time the Ladie Regent of Fraunce employed all meanes possible and especially the Cardinall of Yorke to winne the king of England where all the feare was The Emperour on the other side sollicited the King of Englande to ioyne with him to conquer Fraunce but the King demaunded the whole kingdome in effect if it were conquered some other such conditions as gaue them cause to breake off The Imperials become insolent in Italie the French king is conueyed into Spaine imprisoned at Madril the duke of Burbon is sent for without whom the Emperor will make no agreement and being placed in the house of a great barron at the Emperors request he answered that he would obey for that he and all was at his commaundement But so soone as the duke were gone he would set it on fire with his owne hands least it should smell of the infection of a traitor There is now a conspiracie against the Emperour in Italy wherein the Marques of Pescara plaid a part at the first and after accused the rest dishonourably and shortly after died In the meane time the French king falleth extreamly sicke at Madril insomuch that the Emperor in person would haue visited him but his Chauncelor would not suffer him Within a while after the Emperour espouseth the infant of Portingale the French king recouereth health the Pope treateth for his deliuerance touching the which the great Chancellor and the Viceroy make two excellent orations After this shortly ensueth the treatise of Madril for the kings deliueraunce wherin was yeelded Burgūdie Charelois and so many other Countreys as they that heard it did thinke it would neuer be kept for assurance hereof the king was affianced to the Emperours sister Elconor and the Dolphin of Fraunce and the duke of Orleans were brought in a boat to the midst of the riuer that deuideth Spaine Fraunce and the king in another boate and at one instant they chaunged boates and the king hasted to land and had a Turkish horse readie with whom he rid in post to Bayon and there met with a messenger from the king of England which greatly comforted him vnto whom he confessed that he acknowledged the greatest cause of his deliuery to proceed from him and therfore he was for euer the English kings The xvii Booke ALthough both the Emperour and the King had sworne to the conditions set downe betweene them for his deliuerie and that the king farther sware to ratifie them so soone as he came into a place of libertie Neuerthelesse as soone as hee came to Bayon he answered the messenger that attended the ratification that he durst not performe such things as were preiudiciall to the crowne of France vntill he had wonne the minds of his subiects vnto it After that hee highly complained himselfe to all princes and estates of the Emperours seueritie as well touching the hard conditions as that hee