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A55007	The lives of the popes from the time of our saviour Jesus Christ, to the reign of Sixtus IV / written originally in Latine by Baptista Platina ... and translated into English, and the same history continued from the year 1471 to this present time, wherein the most remarkable passages of Christendom, both in church and state are treated of and described, by Paul Rycaut ...; Vitae pontificum. English	Platina, 1421-1481.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing P2403; ESTC R9221	956,457	865

For formerly when they divided their Patrimony Pavia Vercelli Novara Tortona Alessandria and other places toward the Apennine Mountains and the Alps fell to Galeatius and Piacenza Cremona Parma Lauden Brescia and Pergamo to Bernabos Millain being common to both Vrban had now pass'd a whole year at Genoa when news was brought him that the Florentines incited the Cities belonging to the Church to assert their Liberty as they had done formerly upon which he went first to Lucca and then to Siena and Perugia And those Cities being confirm'd in their Allegiance by his coming he went as far as Ferentino under pretence of seeing Naples but his true Design was to turn Ladislaus a very Child and John both Sons to Charles out of their paternal Inheritance For many Noblemen that favour'd Lewis of Anjou gave him hope of enjoying that Kingdom but those of Gajetta were very faithful and preserving the Children alive saved the Kingdom too to their great Honour The Pope therefore return'd to Rome not being able to effect his Design but was receiv'd into the City with great pomp though not long after the Banderesii laid wait for him which yet he escaped and frustrated He created in one day twenty nine Cardinals of which three were Romans the rest almost all Neapolitans In the mean while Antonius Scala of Verona and Francis the elder Lord of Padua were engaged in a bloody War in which John Vbaldin lead the Army of the Carrareses and John Ordelafo that of the Scaligeri But Galeatius Viconti with the assistance of the Carrareses conquer'd the Scaligeri and took Verona and Vincenza Nor was he so contented but in a few months he besieged and took Padua and imprison'd Francis Carrara at Monza Francis his Son escaping by flight The Florentines also willing now to encrease their Dominions took Monte-Pulciano and Lusignano two Towns in the Territories of Siena by Stratagem rather than by strength And afterward sent Charles Son to Bernabos and Antony Scala with five thousand Horse into the Country of Siena to forage This mov'd Galeatius to such a degree that he dispatch'd Embassadors to Florence to complain that contrary to the League heretofore made between them the Florentines had entertain'd in pay his Enemies Charles Viconti and Antony Scala and that against all right and justice they had harass'd his Friends and Allies the Sienneses In fine his Embassadors were commanded to declare War against them except they drew off their Forces from the Siennois and disbanded those Officers But lest Galeatius should have been as good as his word Peter Gambacorta Lord of Pisa a Friend both to him and to the Florentines interposed and undertook to make up the business In the mean time Vrban dy'd at Rome in the eleventh year and eighth month of his unhappy Pontificate and was buried in S. Peter's Church where there was but little mourning for him as being a rustical and an inexorable Man His Sepulchre or Tomb is yet to be seen with a very rude and silly Inscription upon it BONIFACE IX BONIFACE the Ninth a Neapolitan formerly called Peter Tomacello was made Pope at Rome by general consent of the Cardinals in the year 1389. Who though he were not above thirty years old when he enter'd upon the Popedom yet he lived so strictly at that florid Age and in those wicked times that no act of Lust or inordinate pleasure could be charged upon him for he seemed to have changed his Youth into Age. And then he was a Person of such courage and conduct that he was the first who invested all the Power of Rome in the Pope alone so that he created Magistrates as he pleased and fortified the Castle of S. Angelo which is situate near the Tiber as you go to the Vatican and set guards upon all the Bridges cross the Tiber. Whilst this Boniface IX was in the Chair Galeatius made War upon the Florentines and Bolognians by his Generals John Vbaldin and Lantedescus Petramala who in the Valley of Arno plunder'd and spoil'd all far and near James Vermes likewise enter'd the Territories of Bolognia upon his own account and did the City great damage The Florentines in the mean time to prevent with their utmost these evils sent Jown Hawkwood Charles Son to Bernabos and Antony Scala with four thousand Horse and two thousand Foot to aid the Bolognian their friends and Allies And sollicited Stephen Duke of Bavaria to whom Francis the younger was fled fot refuge both by Letters and Messengers to come and assist ' em Beside they hired James Earl of Armeniac for a great deal of Money to come down into Italy against Viconti and divert him from their borders to defend his own Francis the younger also at their Intreaty disguising himself and favoured by the Venetians got into Padua and took the City before any body was aware The Duke of Bavaria follow'd him at the heels and entering the Town storm'd the Castle without any intermission And the Veroneses startled at this turn of Affairs beat out the Guards of the Viconti and invited Antony Scala to their side who just about that time died in Tuscany leaving one onely Child a little Boy Which when they heard they repented of what they had done and immediately sent for Vgulot Blancardus who was with Galeatius's Army in Cremona having begg'd pardon for their Crime and paid some thousands of pounds to atone for their Error Blaneard being let in could not keep the Soldiers from sacking the wealthy City but the Wife of Galeatius out of pity for the Noble Town after three days stay'd any further plundering The Duke of Bavaria now complaining that the Subsidies promised him by the Florentines were not fairly paid him raised the Siege of the Castle at Padua and went into Germany Thereupon the Florentines having procured passage for their Troops of Albert d' Este who was fallen out with Galeatius a good while before sent John Hawkwood to assist young Carrara by whose Valour and skill the Castle of Padua was quickly brought to surrender So that the Forces of Galeatius who were sent for their relief retired into the Country of Vicenza By this time the Earl of Armagnac a Pensioner of the Florentines was arriv'd in Italy by the way of Turin with twenty thousand Horse and having taken Castellaccio by storm he gave the plunder to his Soldiers To oppose this Enemy Galeatius was necessitated to recall his men out of the Country of Vicenza while the Milaneses who were posted in the Suburbs of Alexandria were furiously set upon by those of Armagnac without any order but the Italians drew out the Battel so long fighting for some time before the Gates till their men whom they had sent about to fall upon their Enemy in the Reer could have time to surprise ' em While the fight continued they came about So that the Enemy was attaqu'd in the Reer Front and Flank in such a dreadful manner for the Towns-People

retire to Casal thither also he follow'd it and with his Cannon disabled all their Ships as they lay in the Harbour driving the Admiral of Venice to such despair that he burn'd his Navy which he could not keep and ran into the Town as fast as he could Francis then went from thence and took no farther care about Cremona having destroy'd the Enemies Navy but march'd toward Geradada and encamp'd before Caravagio which was well fortified by the Enemies The Venetians moved thither too fearing they should lose their reputation if the Millaineses took the Town and therefore they lay about a mile off the Enemy and shew'd the Townsmen that if occasion were they would come in and assist them They had Skirmishes every day they were so near one another but when they came to joyn Battel it happen'd to be in a narrow way surrounded with Fens where the Vanguard of the Venetians was so straighten'd that they could not give back as sometimes in War it may be convenient to do nor yet fight the Enemy came so thick upon them insomuch that they must of necessity have perish'd if the Reer had not begun to run away Francis pursu'd 'em as they gave ground and not onely made himself Master of their wealthy Camp but took about five thousand Horse and Foot After that the Brachians were without Francis his consent ordered by the Millaineses to attaque Lodi and he moved toward Brescia with his Army and besieged it Which so alarm'd the Venetians that they concluded themselves lost if they did not make Peace with Francis now he had a quarrel with the Millaineses and a Peace they did make upon condition That joyning their Forces against the Millaineses all that they should take beyond the River Adda and Po should be Francis's and that on this side the Adda should be the Venetians that they should allow him the Florentines and the Venetians betwixt 'em sixteen thousand pounds a month and send him in aid still till he got possession of Millain Having made this League and drawn what Commanders he could to his side by Promises and Presents he turn'd toward the Millaineses and took most of their Cities by surrender At this success of his the Venetians were so concern'd when they saw his fortune much better than they expected that they took Crema according to agreement and recalling all their Soldiers they made Peace with the Millaineses as fearing the power of Francis if he once got into Millain But Francis pretended a kindness to the Venetians and being assisted and supply'd more out of Cosmo di Medices's private Pocket than out of the Treasury of Florence after a long and tedious Siege and many bloody Skirmishes in the middle of Winter though some of his Men forsook him and joined with the Enemy and Alphonso was against him who claimed Millain as his Birthright and therefore kept Lewis Gonzaga in pay whom he sent against the Bolognians that his Men might pass with more safety into Lombardy he at last took Millain in the year 1449. 'T is true the Venetians did assist the Millaineses under the conduct of Sigismund Malatesta who was to join with Picenninus that fought under the Millaineses but after such a lame rate that they were famish'd and yielded up the City rather to the Venetians than to Francis Wherefore the Venetians seeing the thing went quite contrary to their expectation they treated with Alphonso who was an utter Enemy to Francis and made a League with him to rout the ambitious Man out of Millain before he grew too strong They also sollicited the Florentines to do the same who said they would never be against Francis and therefore the Venetians banish'd their Merchants out of their Dominions and prevailed with Alphonso to do the like Nicolas the Pope seeing all Italy in Arms did often interpose his Authority to make a Peace that all people might come the next year freely out of all Europe to the Jubilee for the fiftieth year was acoming wherein the Jubilee was to be celebrated after the usual manner Besides he made six Cardinals of which number were Latinus Vrsinus and his own Brother by the Mothers side called Philip Cardinal of S. Laurence in Lucina a very good Man and of a generous disposition Mean time Frederick the Emperour at the Pope's request forced Felix to renounce the Popedom because he saw how pernicious and destructive so much Sedition had been to the Church of Rome Yet Nicolas was so civil and kind to Amadeus that he sent him a Cardinals Hat with Legantine Power in Germany that he might not live without some Honour at least And those Cardinals also which Amadeus had made submitted This agreement of theirs did so rejoyce not onely all the Clergy but the people of Rome that the Night after they heard of it April 23. 1449. they rode about the City with Flambeaus in their Hands and cry'd out Long live Nicolas The Pope that he might not seem unthankful to God for so extraordinary a benefit went publickly to Prayers in the Vatican along with the Clergy and the people The like was done all Italy over when they saw the Church of God freed from such a pernicious Sedition Nay the Pope's Authority and esteem was so great that he restrain'd even Princes for some time when they had a mind to make War For James Picenninus Sigismund Malatesta and Charles Gonzaga who were Francis Sfortia's bitter mortal Enemies incited the Venetians to that War The Venetians also had drawn the Duke of Savoy into their Alliance together with the Marquis of Montferrat and the Lords of Corregio and try'd to bring over the Bolognians and those of Perugia but in vain for the Pope was against it and threaten'd 'em with his displeasure if they offer'd to do it They likewise indented with Alphonso that whilst they attaqued Francis he should engage the Florentines But Francis relying upon the friendship and power of the Florentines and having taken Lewis Gonzaga Prince of Mantoua into his Alliance he prepared himself with courage for the War Hence arose great Animosities between Charles and Lewis that Lewis should court his Alliance who was Charles's Enemy and because he had kept some Towns from him which his Father left him by his Will For Lewis was his Brother's security when he was once arrested for eighty thousand pounds and Charles having no mind to part with his Land he chose rather to pay the Money to Francis who was for Money or Towns either and keep the Towns in his own hands as being near and conveniently situated For this reason Charles blamed his Brother and accused him as a Robber not onely to the Venetians on whose side he was but to the Emperour by whose assistance he expected to have right done him And now the Year of Jubilee was come when such a multitude of people flock'd to Rome as never were seen there before So that when they came from seeing our Saviours