This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...them under the faith of the most solemn oaths. They admitted the republics of Sienna, Lucca, and Pisa, into this league; they formed a commission of eight persons, to direct the military department, called "the eight of war;" they assembled a numerous army, and gave it colors, on which was inscribed, in golden 1377. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...them under the faith of the most solemn oaths. They admitted the republics of Sienna, Lucca, and Pisa, into this league; they formed a commission of eight persons, to direct the military department, called "the eight of war;" they assembled a numerous army, and gave it colors, on which was inscribed, in golden 1377. THE WAR OF LIBERTY. 151 letters, the word "Liberty." This army entered the states of the church, proclaiming that the Florentines demanded nothing for themselves, --that not only would they make no conquests, but would accept dominion over no people who might offer themselves: they were desirous only of universal liberty, --and would assist the oppressed with all their power, solicitous for the recovery of their freedom. The army of liberty carried revolution into all the states of the church with an inconceivable rapidity: eighty cities and towns, in ten days, threw off the yoke of the legates. The greater number constituted themselves republics; a few recalled the ancient families of princes, who had been exiled by Egidio Albornoz, and to whom they were attached by hereditary affection. Bologna did not accomplish her revolution before the 20th of March, 1376. This ancient republic, in recovering its liberty, vowed fidelity to the Florentines, to whom it owed the restoration of its freedom. The legates, beside themselves with rage, endeavored to restrain the people by terror. John Hawkwood, on the 29th of March, 1376, delivered up Faenza to a frightful military execution: 4000 persons were put to death, property pillaged, and women violated. The pope, not satisfied with such rigor, sent Robert of Geneva, another cardinal legate, into Italy, with a Breton company of adventurers, considered as the most ferocious of all those tra...
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