. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. diplomató&Ia ToscSni/la Francia, in the «, Stor. ltd,, vol. xvi. part ii. pp. 54 and Desjardin, vol. i. p. 594 and foL SUCCESSFUL ADVANCE OF THE FRENCH. 21 I Being now masters of the Tuscan territory the Frenchmade a rapid advance, scarcely able to believe in thechange, by which they had been so miraculously deliveredfrom danger. _ They all accepted it as a sign that Hcafavoured their enterprise ; and this belief was not onlyshared by generals as well as soldiery, but even bV theking, who was now convinced that he was really the newCyru
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. diplomató&Ia ToscSni/la Francia, in the «, Stor. ltd,, vol. xvi. part ii. pp. 54 and Desjardin, vol. i. p. 594 and foL SUCCESSFUL ADVANCE OF THE FRENCH. 21 I Being now masters of the Tuscan territory the Frenchmade a rapid advance, scarcely able to believe in thechange, by which they had been so miraculously deliveredfrom danger. _ They all accepted it as a sign that Hcafavoured their enterprise ; and this belief was not onlyshared by generals as well as soldiery, but even bV theking, who was now convinced that he was really the newCyrus, foretold by the preacher of St. Marks « Whenthe news of these events reached Florence, it roused thepublic to indescribable fury, and led to startling and mostimportant events. ° Philippe de Comines, « Memoires» livre vii. cap. ix. p «i Thiswriter says that the French cou]dnot ^,. their ««me^and hushedat Piero de Medici on seeing how readily he yielded everyth ine• « Com me •USsaKEÈSsf And he ■&-* «^ ** £35. CHAPTER II. THE MEDICI ViRB EX*PELLE/.-/ IS SEV>CT ON AN EMBASSY TO ÌHE FRENCH Coi MP. (November, 1494.) —7O HE month of November, 1494, began•c5)q under sinister auspices in Florence. ^àtO The unexpected, almost incredible newsffr^X- of the surrender of fortresses whichj^fpi y&fè had cost the Republic prolonged sieges^^^%^J^> and enormous expense,1 and formedthe key of the whole Tuscan territory, instantly raised atumult among the people ; and the general fury was in-creased by letters received from the French camp, and theaccounts of the returned envoys. For they told with whatease honourable terms might have been wrested from thekino- ; with what a mixture of cowardice and self-assertionPiero de Medici had placed the whole Republic at the mercyof Charles VIIL, without waiting for the ambassadors ^orinterrogating any one. All gave free vent to their indig-nation,&and the people began to gather in the streets and 1 The fort
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