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Page 4 - ... Nation Series" Catalogue. Sent to any address on appl1cation to the 'Publisher.} Sir John Hawkwood (1'Acuto). Translated from the Italian of John Temple-Leader and Guiseppe Marcotti, by LEADER SCOTT. Illustrated. Royal 8vo., bound in buckram, gilt tops. Limited Edition. Extract from Preface. — " He was for more than thirty years one of the most effective dominators of Italian affairs, and in her history — military, political, and social — he figures as a personage whose character and actions...
Page 62 - ... Temple-Leader and Marcotti write (p. 60) : 'In 1368 he had returned to the pay of Bernabo Visconti, together with William Boson [Bosson, RIS 23. 555], conducting four thousand Englishmen. His passage into Lombardy was probably connected with the arrival there of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England, who came to celebrate his marriage with Violante, daughter of Galeazzo Visconti and niece of Bernabo*; and it is very likely that he went to pay homage at the court of his own Royal...
Page 63 - ... against the Visconti, persuading them to attack Borgoforte. It must be noted that what between the Imperials (Bohemians, Sclavonians, Poles, Grisons, and Swiss), d'Este's Italians, those of Malatesta, and of Queen Joanna; and the Church party, which consisted of Bretons, Gascons, and Provençals; as many as twenty thousand combatants presented themselves before that fortress. In the army of Visconti were Germans, English. Italians, Burgundians, all with the firm determination to defend the bulwarks;...
Page 53 - ... cities ; torturing and maiming those from whom they expected to obtain ransom, without regard to ecclesiastical dignity, or sex or age; violating wives, virgins, and nuns, and constraining even gentlewomen to follow their camp, to do their pleasure and carry arms and baggage.
Page 53 - That multitude of villains of divers nations, associated in arms by avidity . . . unbridled in every kind of cruelty, extorting money; methodically devastating the country and the open towns, burning houses and barns, destroying trees and vines, obliging poor peasants to fly . . . torturing and maiming those from whom they expected to obtain ransom, without regard to ecclesiastical dignity or sex or age; violating wives, virgins and nuns, and constraining even gentlewomen to follow their camp, to...
Page 319 - Pisani populi, partitu facto inter eos ad denarios albos et giallos secundum formam brevis Pisani populi...
Page 19 - ... were keeping the New Year's festivities, while the Milanese nobles were having a merry time, playing at tabulas et scaccos (draughts and chess) unsuspecting and undefended, so that they were unable to prevent the robbers from taking anything and everything they chose. They made prisoners of over 600 nobles, and would have taken more if ropes and time had not failed them. Some of the gang dragged behind them as many as ten nobles, together with their cattle; they could not save them all, because...
Page 14 - Maritime Alps by the feudal estates of Malaspina, favored by Simon Boccanegra, doge of Genoa, and enemy to the Visconti; and thus descend into the valley of the Po. . . . The fact remains that Piedmont was devastated by the Hungarians, the Germans, and lastly by the newly arrived English.
Page 18 - ... to rout the English seemed very difficult to Visconti, for he was at the same time attempting to make a treaty of peace with them. Albert Sterz feigned to consent, by which means the English succeeded in making a fierce incursion, passing the Ticino, and pushing on to within six miles of Milan. It was night, and people in the castles and villages were keeping the New Year's festivities, while the Milanese nobles were having a merry time, playing at tabulas et scaccos (draughts and chess) unsuspecting...
Page 17 - Chronique de Savoie" says coldly, almost excusing them, that, being many, they could not live in Piedmont without spoiling the country, so that Conte Verde, who had imprudently counselled the Marquis of Montferrat to employ the English, repented, and took arms to defend himself. . . . By forfeiting the sum of...