Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . 20. Pope Sixtus IV and Pi<atina. 21. Pope Ai^exander VI 243 ROME (1400-1500) Naples and succeeded in winning the friendship and allianceof King Ferrante. The capture of Otranto by the Turks in 1480 and theirwithdrawal on account of the death of the great Sultan,Mohammed the Second (events that are related elsewhere),did not much afEect Rome or the Papacy—although it i
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . 20. Pope Sixtus IV and Pi<atina. 21. Pope Ai^exander VI 243 ROME (1400-1500) Naples and succeeded in winning the friendship and allianceof King Ferrante. The capture of Otranto by the Turks in 1480 and theirwithdrawal on account of the death of the great Sultan,Mohammed the Second (events that are related elsewhere),did not much afEect Rome or the Papacy—although it issaid that Sixtus was with difficulty prevented from fleeing toFrance when he heard of the landing of the infidels in Italy,and that his alarm caused him to come to terms with Florence. During the last few years of his life he was occupied invarious ignoble wars. He most disgracefully attacked DukeErcole of Ferrara,^ which city he hoped, with the help of theVenetians, to steal for his nephew Girolamo and then annexto the papal dominions; but he was assailed by the Neapolitansunder Alfonso, son of old King Ferrante, and in Rome he hadserious trouble with the republican-minded Colonna (whoseleader, I^orenzo Colonna, he tortured most barbarously andexecut
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