Chapter

  1 3,4 |         acquired by the boorish French peasants or the German serfs;
  2 4,1 |       out; ~To keep two hundred French lances always in readiness
  3 4,2 |     obstacles in the way of the French king in Italy. ~This cost
  4 4,2 |      plots were hatching at the French court against the kingdom
  5 4,3 |     this was going on while the French, thoroughly alive, were
  6 4,3 |      years in the Signoria. The French ambassador put forward his
  7 4,3 |         merit of frankness, the French envoys proceeded to Rome,
  8 4,4 |       the Apennines against the French, and helping the other to
  9 4,5 |          to take command of the French fleet and bring it to Genoa;
 10 4,5 |      was called by Italians the French, by Frenchmen the Italian
 11 5,1 | entrance to Tuscany against the French; when, however, he saw his
 12 5,1 |         declared themselves the French king's men, and collecting
 13 5,1 |       awaited the coming of the French fleet to offer a passage
 14 5,1 | Torderiovo, had betrayed to the French the weak side of Fivizzano,
 15 5,1 |      communications between the French army and their fleet, had
 16 5,1 |        prisoners; every man the French could get hold of they had
 17 5,1 |         Florentine imagined the French to be like an army of those
 18 5,1 |    person into the hands of the French monarch, to act as one of
 19 5,1 |          was in the eyes of the French nobility, who considered
 20 5,1 |   having. Piero obeyed, and the French army, led by the grandson
 21 5,1 |    evening after he quitted the French army Piero returned incognito
 22 5,2 |    defend themselves should the French make an attack. It was agreed
 23 5,2 |      answer saved the town. The French supposed, from such audacious
 24 5,3 |  anticipated the success of the French in Italy, and we have seen
 25 5,4 |         fresh embassy. ~But the French all this time were advancing,
 26 5,4 |      ambassadors added that the French army was now only two days
 27 5,4 |        the same moment that the French vanguard halted five hundred
 28 5,5 |      cavalry, the flower of the French nobility, with their gilded
 29 5,5 |        cropped according to the French custom. These horses, unlike
 30 5,5 |     intermingled with the great French lords. ~For a long time
 31 5,5 |       the hindmost guard of the French army. ~It was six hours
 32 5,5 |       was, this time it was the French king who gave way. ~This
 33 5,8 |      the Campagna and cut every French throat he could find. He
 34 5,8 |          were to attack all the French stations on the coast of
 35 6,1 |      his Gascons, eight hundred French lances, and about five hundred
 36 6,1 |     consisting of eight hundred French lances, two hundred gentlemen
 37 6,1 |    Swiss infantry, one thousand French and one thousand Gascon.
 38 6,1 |         the enemy's army to the French, and was in the possession
 39 6,1 |     several skirmishes with the French troops during the two days
 40 6,2 |    difference between them. The French army, weakened by the establishment
 41 6,2 |      with a view to putting the French army in a worse position.
 42 6,2 |        the extreme right of the French army. The Stradiotes, under
 43 6,2 | cross-bowmen an horseback, with French archers besides, led by
 44 6,2 |        in the morning the whole French army was on the left bank
 45 6,3 |      lay, and was to attack the French van; while Gonzaga himself,
 46 6,3 |         so soon as they saw the French army attacked both in van
 47 6,3 |      match; but in a minute the French army was caught between
 48 6,3 |  stronger than the whole of the French army. ~When, however, M.
 49 6,3 |         clash behind it was the French rearguard coming to blows
 50 6,3 |      far more numerous than the French, the king saw them suddenly
 51 6,3 |       to fight, pressing on the French cavalry and smashing their
 52 6,3 |         or twelve feet from the French line and turned right about
 53 6,3 |    breaking a single lance. The French wanted to pursue, but the
 54 6,3 |        same, at this moment the French were sorely pressed in the
 55 6,4 |     turned their backs upon the French rear and took to flight;
 56 6,4 |       the battlefield where the French had gained so glorious a
 57 6,4 | mounting noiselessly, the whole French army, almost out of danger
 58 6,4 |        almost the same time the French fleet had been beaten by
 59 6,4 |      were now in the pay of the French, and had entered the kingdom
 60 7,1 |     during their stay among the French to study those matters of
 61 8,1 |       the colour, appeared in a French dress, followed, like a
 62 10,1|                           1~The French army was now preparing to
 63 10,1|       imprudence in calling the French into Italy; all the allies
 64 10,1|      impetuous onslaught of the French, who in a few days had taken
 65 10,1|       Ludovico's departure, the French entered Milan. Ten days
 66 10,1|       days had sufficed for the French to get possession of the
 67 10,3|         the enthusiasm that the French army and Louis's promises
 68 10,3|       there was no safety for a French garrison in remaining there,
 69 10,3|      rest; and scarcely had the French got outside the gates when
 70 10,3|         scarcely as many as 300 French with him, and Ludovico 500
 71 10,3|         the highest bidder. The French were the first to experience
 72 10,4|   hastened the departure of the French gendarmerie who were already
 73 10,4|      added 1500 lances and 6000 French infantry; finally, the bailiff
 74 10,4|      Alps of the first army any French king had ever led out to
 75 10,4|  Novarra and the arrival of the French army before the town, there
 76 10,4|     were standing firmly by the French flag, careless of the order
 77 10,4|      and baggage right into the French army; so the last hope of
 78 10,4| trafficked in their honour. The French were warned of the disguise
 79 10,4|         it then belonged to the French, and when the Swiss returned
 80 10,4|        his head of enticing the French into Italy. ~The news of
 81 10,4|         at Rome, for, while the French were consolidating their
 82 11,3|         handed swords which the French are accustomed to use, and
 83 11,5|         the doge sought out the French ambassador, entreating him
 84 11,5|     authorising Manenti and the French ambassador to pursue the
 85 11,5|        longer. ~Manenti and the French ambassador returned to Venice,
 86 12,2|         not have to share. ~The French army, which the Duke of
 87 12,2|      their arrival at Rome, the French and Spanish ambassadors
 88 12,2|      heard all at once that the French army had arrived at Rome,
 89 12,2|       di Marciano, to check the French before Capua with 300 men-at-arms,
 90 12,2|        river. Scarcely were the French encamped before the ramparts
 91 12,2|        by Fabrizio Colonna, the French, from the moment of their
 92 12,3|        pope, and had joined the French army with some of his troops
 93 12,3|        of capitulation with the French captains, suddenly great
 94 12,3|         was all but signed. The French, when they saw that the
 95 12,3|        to make head against the French and Spaniards with such
 96 12,3|   liberty again; so he left the French army, after he had received
 97 13,2|      was at Imola, awaiting the French troops, but with scarcely
 98 13,3|    urging on the arrival of the French troops and calling into
 99 13,3| announced the speedy arrival of French troops; he showed him those
100 13,4|       inspire, he sent away all French troops in his service as
101 14,1|     under the protection of the French. Besides, Siena was not
102 15,1|  advanced to Terracino, and the French to Nepi. The cardinals saw
103 15,2|     both by the Spanish and the French party, each desiring the
104 15,2|  advised him to try to join the French army, which was still advancing