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Title: The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : The Outlook Company (etc.,etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n which he had assumed it. But the eloquent language which had onceaffected Clement VI, and intoxicated the people with enthusiasm, was nowreceived coldly, and not a voice rose in his defence. Weeping, Cola came out on horseback, and to the sound of trumpets andwith imperial accompaniments he passed through the city almost in triumphand shut himself up in the castle of St. Angelo. When the tribunedescended from his grandeur, he bewailed the others who were associatedwith him and he lamented over the unhappy people. The barons did notdare to set foot in Rome for three days, and they finally returned, with thelegate, who disapproved of most of the deeds of the tribune, and condemnedhim as a heretic. The count Pipino was executed eight days afterwards inthe Abruzzi, and a mitre was put upon his head with the inscription thathe was mockingly called the liberator of the people of Rome. Cola on the arrival of the king of Hungary fled to the Naples districtfrom the dangers which menaced him.
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RUINS OF TIIK TEMPLE OK CASTOR AT ROME ROME UNDER RIENZI 223 (1347-1350 A.D.) ANARCHY AND JUBILEE IN ROME Rome now returned to her old state of anarchy. The senators BertoldoOrsini and Luca Savelli failed in maintaining a more orderly government thanthe senators preceding them. Stefano Colonna, the elder, died about thistime (1348-1350) ; Werner von Urslingen, the fierce captain of the GreatCompany, had returned about a year before to this side of the Alps afterhaving laid Romagna waste, and in November, 1347, he, with fifteen hundredarmed soldiers, followed Louis of Hungary in Italy to the conquest of Naples.The confusion with which he filled the kingdom led to the victory of theHungarians ; then Urslingen was licensed, and it being easy to find them hegathered mercenaries under him, and marching towards Rome took anddestroyed Anagni; but he did not get any further. The Black Plague (described in our previous chapter), brought from theLevant in a Genoese galley in 1347, broke out in

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