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HISTORICAL ABSTRACT. _63
Naples [Guicciardini, bk. xvii. ch. v ; Buonaparte 1, Sacco di Roma, 1526.
pp. 22-30]. The Pope, in spite of the agreement, at once assembles
his troops under Paolo Vitelli, and lays waste the territories of
the Colonna family, and prepares to attack Naples.
l_Iaehiavelli.--During the spring busied with the details of a plan for
the fortification of Florence [Op. iv. 46o ; Relazione di una visita
fatta da N. M. per fortificare Firenze ; Lett. Fam., Op. viiL I97-_oI ].
On May 9 a new magistracy, with the name 'Cinque Procuratori
delle Mura,' is formed, and Machiavelli is appointed their Chancellor
[Op. viii. 202: 'Qui si _ pensato, andando la fortificazione
innanzi, che io faccia l' ufizio del Provvedltore e del Cancelliere,' etc.]
Corresponds with Guicciardmi and Vettori till middle of August
[Lett. Faro. lxiii-lxxiv ; Op. viii. i85 ; from January 3 to August 7].
In August he goes to Guicciardini at the camp of the League in
Lombardy_. On September io is sent by Guicciardini to see the
progress of the operations before Cremona lOp. vii. 456, Spedlzione
al campo di Cremona; Guieciardini, Op. Ined. iv. pp. 34o, 368. Cf.
also Guicclardmi's letters of September, which contain references to
Machiavelli's letters and reports of affairs at Cremona, none of
whmh appear to have been preserved.] Returns to Florence in
October [Op. viii. 221-226], and draws up a report of the state of
affairs [Op. viii. 215, letter'a un amico'; Villari, iii. 345, note el.
On November 3o is again sent to Guicciardini at Modena [Op. vii.
459, Spedizione a Francesco Guicciardim]; returns to Florence
early in December.
• ho Neapolitan earnpaign.--On January 4, Renzo da Ceri arrives 1527.
at Rome, to whom, together with Paolo Vltelli, is given the
command of the ecclesiastical forces; they press on the war
against Lannoy, Imperial Viceroy at Naples. Clement VII
summons to Rome, Regnier, Count of Vaudemont, representative
of the Anjou claims to Naples. He goes by sea towards Naples.
After much desultory fighting, the Pope, in want of money and
despairing of assistance from France, consents to a truce [March
I5'_; signed by Lannoy, March 25]. Terms: truce to last eight
months; the Pope to withdraw hm forces from the Neapolitan
territory, and leave Naples to the Emperor; to pardon the
Colonna family; the Imperialists [Bourbon and the Germans] to
' Ragguaglio Storico di tutto 1' occorso glorno per glorno nel sacco dl Rome
dell' anno _DXXWIscntto da Jacopo Buonaparte gentiluomo Saraminiatese the
vz si trov6 presente, etc. : in Colonm, i756.' The references are to the pages of
this edition.
" Whether he received a public commission or not, is not clear. If he did,
then Op. vii. 467 should be third, not second, ' Spedizione a Francesco Guicclardinl.'
s Varchi, vol. i. 64, says March i6.
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