The Sack of Rome: 1527

359 Pages·2004·22.026 MB·English

by  Judith Hook (auth.)

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Otherwise the city is as it was during the Sack.

THE SACK OF
ROME

JUDITH HOOK
THE SACK OF
ROME
Second edition
with a new foreword by
Patrick Collinson
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Hook, judith.
The sack of Rome : 1527 I judith Hook.-2nd ed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Rome (ltaly)-History-Siege, 1 527. I. Title.
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