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i6e HISTORICAL ABSTRACT.
1526. taken July 24. Francesco Sforza withdraws to Lodi. The forces
of the League advance towards Milan [on July 5 the Duke of
Urbino was within five miles of Milan, but did nothing to help
Francesco Sforza]. Attempt to besiege Cremona. Francis I neglects
to aid the confederates. Cremona capitulates, September 22
[Guicciardini, Op. Ined. iv. 393; St. d' It. bk. xvii. ch. iv]. The
Duke of Urbino leaves the camp two days before : 'sotto nome di
andare in Mantuano avedere la moglie l' [Guice., Op. Ined. iv. 425].
In November, George Frundsberg arrives in Italy, with 14,ooo
Germans. By middle of November is at Castiglione, north of
Mantua. Thence moves towards Borgoforte. On November 24,
Giovanni de' Medici, who advances to try and prevent Frunsberg's
troops from crossing the Pc, is wounded in a skirmish, and
dies at Mantua, November 3o. The Imperialists move east and
cross the Pc to Revere. Thence march towards Parma: on
December 3 at Guastalla; on December ii cross the Taro; and
encamp at Borgo a San Donino, December 12.
Papal attack on Siena.--The Pope makes an unsuccessful attempt
during June to revolutionise the government of Siena. Papal and
Florentine troops advance towards Siena, June 17. An expected
rising within the town does not take place, and the troops are
forced to withdraw, July 25 [Guicciardini, bk. xvii. ch. iii; and
detailed account by Francesco Vettori in Op. viii. 21o ; Lett. Fam.
lxxiv].
Affairs at Rome [see Reumont, vol. iii. pt. ii. pp. i74-i83].--Charles
V, wishing to secure the neutrality of the Pope, sends Don Hugo de
Moncada to negotiate with the Pope. Unable to arrive at any result,
Moncada leaves Rome, June 2o. The Cardinal Pompeo Colonna,
together with Ascanio and Vespasiano Colonna, collect troops and
harass the neighbourhood of Rome, acting in concert with Moncada
in the Imperial interest. Moncada, desiring to check the Pope's preparations
for war, sends Vespasiano Colonna to conclude a truce
[August 22]. The Colonnesi are to restore all places belonging to
the Church ; to have permission to serve the Emperor against whosoever
should attack the kingdom of Naples [i.e. the Pope himself] ; to
receive full pardon : the Pope is not to molest their states, nor to allow
the Orsini to do so. The Pope disbands his troops : the Colonnesi
collect theirs, and advancing in the night of September 19 to Rome
in perfect silence, enter the city without resistance [Ascanio, Vespasiano,
and Pompeo Colonna; Ugo Moneada]. The Pope takes refuge
in Castel S. Angelo; the troops plunder the Vatican. Moncada
arranges a truce [September 21] : i. peace for four months between
the Confederates and the Emperor; ii. the Pope to withdraw his
troops from Lombardy, to pardon Pompeo and the other Colonnesi ;
iii. Moncada and the Colonnesi to withdraw their troops towards