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THE SACK OF ROME
I. Letter from the Bishop of Modula to the Generals of the League.[252]
Most illustrious Lords of the League,
Let your most illustrious Lordships speed on quickly without loss of time, seeing by these presents that the enemy have carried the Borgo, though our Lord and all Rome were well fortified. Monsignor de Bourbon is dead of an arquebus-shot below the abdomen, and a man has just come in who happened to aid in carrying off his body. More than three thousand of the enemy have fallen. Let your Lordships, then, press on, for the enemy are in the utmost disorder; quickly, quickly, without loss of time. Your servant,
Guido, Bishop Of Modula.
From Viterbo, the 7th of May, 1527, 3 P.M.
To the most illustrious Lords, the Duke of Urbino and the Marquis of Saluzzo, Captains of the League.