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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Sir Henrie Brooke Cobham Knight RIght Worshipful forasmuch as the historie of Guicchiardine hath wonne sufficient credite in mens opinions to coūtenance it selfe against the enuious I hope my boldnes may much the better bee excused presuming to publish in print this treatise containing all the notable and materiall things in that Hystorie whosoeuer hee was that hath bestowed his trauaile to reduce so great a volume into so small and necessarie a Booke though his name be suppressed hee may merit no doubt his due commendation I thought it a necessarie office for me to make shew of my good disposition in due consideration towards you whom I haue knowne of along time to be exercised in forraine affaires and imploied in matters of some weight for her Maiesties seruice and the estate Hauing thereon addicted my selfe to thinke you meete to receyue this little Booke into your protection which most affectionatly I recommend vnto you with my prayers vnto the eternall God for your worships health and long life From my house in the new rents in Saint Nicholas shambles this seuenth of December 1591. Your Worships most humbly at commaund T. P. 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 LOdouike Sforce tutor and vncle to Iohn Galeas duke of Millaine fearing least Ferdinand king of Naples should make war vpon him departed from the league lately made betweene him the king the Florentines against the Venetians and closely procureth Charles the viii king of France to come to Italie to conquer the kingdome of Naples as due to the house of Aniow for that Pope Vrbin the fourth gaue Naples and Cicill being the olde fee of the Church vnto Charles Earle of Prouince and Aniow brother vnto Saint Lewis Ferdinand was verie secure as commonly men are in their woorst destinie knowing his strength both by sea and land and knowing withall that there was no great matter in his enemie but he remembred not the weakenesse and parcialities in Italie and that France was not since Charlemans time so great in circuite nor flourishing in souldiers Howbeit he treated with Lodouike for amitie who secretly promised him meaning nothing lesse and with Alexander the sixt lately chosen Pope by open symonie and by the meanes of Cardinall Ascanio Sforce in despite of the Cardinall of Saint Peters ad Vincula who before was secretly confederated with Lodouike and yet promised Ferdinand that he would defend Naples and Ferdinand should defend the Church Ferdinand further made peace with Maximilian king of Romans lately chosen Emperour Lodouike on the other side to winne the Emperour from him gaue in mariage to the Emperour Marie Blanche sister of Iohn Galeas with promise of foure hundred thousand ducats whereupon the Emperour more esteeming the mony then his new brother in law gaue the inuestiture of the duchie of Millain vnto Lodouike pretending that since the death of Philip Viscont Mary there had bene no lawfull duke thereof The French king hereupon sent Peron de la Bascha embassadour to the Pope the Florentines and the Venetians where albeit he receiued onely comforts in generalitie for that the warres were put off till the next yeare yet Ferdinand seeing all things now like to come to naught fel into pensiuenesse and so into an Apoplexie died whose sonne Alfonso succeeded and entred league with Pope Alexander as his father did But discouering the trecheries of Lodouike he sent away his ambassadour he sequestred the reuenues of the duchie of Barrie and by all meanes endeuoured also to alienate from him the citie of Geane yea that which the deuil himself would scarcely haue done he sent to the Turke Baiazet Ottoman assuring him that Charles the French king after the conquest of Italie had a meaning to set vppon Greece and therefore he should helpe in this common case He sent his nephew forthwith to surprise Geane but Lois duke of Orleance preuented him Now began Italie to thinke of her weakenes the Pope commanded the king not to enter Peter de Medices and the Florentines who were euer French heretofore declared them selues against the king the Venecians were content to stande neuter Lodouike vpon better aduice began to feare that the conquering Naples would also swallow vp Millaine and therefore began now to cast how to make an accord as soone as the king were past the Alpes hoping to make Alphonso tributarie to France and thereby to assure his owne estate Now began prodigious sights to be seene as in Puglia three Sunnes enuironed with cloudes and horrible thundering In Arezzo armies of men and horses in the aire with drummes and trumpets and diuerse Images sweating The Colonoys ioine with the French Lodouike accompanieth them Peter de Medices becommeth his friend and the Pisans the Pope the Venecians and Lodouike in greater feare then euer tofore for that Charles passed like a thunder through Italie with great successe Charles entereth Rome kisseth the Popes feete and ioyneth with him in league defensiue the Cardinall of Valence sonne to the Pope is appointed three monethes to followe the king toward Naples The Neapolitans shew that they neither loued Ferdinand the father nor Alfonso the sonne which brought him in great perplexitie and so much the more for that the spirite of Ferdinand as it was thought appeared to his chiefe surgeon willing him to tell Alfonso that it was in vain for him to resist the French king it was determined their race should faile in respect of diuerse their great sinnes and especially for the thing that they resolued in Saint Leonards Church in Chiaie which was to put a number of the novilitie to death Hereupon Alfonso tormented in conscience priuily stole away into Sicilia with foure gallies whereby the French king with great ease got this noble kingdome as the Romane who said Veni vidi vici Howbeit Ferdinand sonne of Alfonso tooke on him the title of the king and defence of the kingdome But within short space hee was driuen to flie into Iskia At this time the noble captaine Iean Iaques de Trinulce of Capua gaue himselfe to the king and offered to bring Ferdinand to some good composition whereof the king willingly accepted so that hee woulde forgo Naples in respect whereof he offered to giue him other estates in Fraunce This was the fruite of discorde and ambition in the manie little estates of Italie whereof none was able to defende it selfe seuerally and ioyntly might haue done greater things The second Booke THe Pisans desire to cast off the yoke of the Florentines and submit themselues to the French the Florentines prepare to warre vpon them and in the meane time fall at difference among them selues for the forme of their owne gouernement touching the which Soderin and Vespucci made two excellent Orations one for Democratie the other for Aristocratie the which had preuailed had not