Rome after the Sack

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Judith Hook

Published:

2004

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK

For a fortnight after the capture of Rome there was no effective government in the city, but gradually some form of de facto organization began to evolve, although almost everything remained in total confusion. The army was now officially lodged, Fabrizio Maramaldo and Luigi Gonzaga having command of their Italian forces in Trastevere, the lansquenets in occupation of the Borgo, and the Spaniards on the other side of the Tiber around Campo di Fiori. The armies were broken up in this way in order to prevent them fighting with each other. The Colonna family also played an important part in guarding the city, and with their troops, who were considerably better controlled than those in the imperial army, maintained a defence at the bridge of Sant'Angelo and in the adjacent quarter of the city as well as at Ponte Milvio. The command of the imperial army had, inevitably, been weakened by the death of Bourbon. In the absence of any other obvious successor, Orange had automatically assumed the over-all command, but he was still very young and inexperienced and liable to make mistakes; the first was to appear to favour the lansquenets at the expense of the Spaniards.KeywordsObvious SuccessorItalian ForceImperial SoldieryCivil GovernorImperial AuthorityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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