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The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b Containing the histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII. Kings of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. To which is added the Scandalous Chronicle, or, secret history of Louis XI., by Jean de Troyes.Commynes, Philippe de

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The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b Containing the histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII. Kings of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. To which is added the Scandalous Chronicle, or, secret history of Louis XI., by Jean de Troyes.

Name: The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b Containing the histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII. Kings of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. To which is added the Scandalous Chronicle, or, secret history of Louis XI., by Jean de Troyes.
Author: Commynes, Philippe de

Commynes, Philippe de

France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589

CH. IX.—How Peter de Medicis put Four of his strongest
    Garrisons into the King’s Possession; and how the King restored
    Pisa, which was one of them, to its ancient Liberty                134

  CH. X.—How the King departed from Pisa to go to Florence; and
    of the Flight and Destruction of Peter de Medicis                  139

  CH. XI.—How the King made his Entrance into Florence, and what
    other Towns he passed through in his March to Rome                 143

  CH. XII.—How the King sent the Cardinal of St. Peter ad Vincula
    (who was afterwards Pope by the name of Julius II.) to Ostia;
    what the Pope did at Rome in the Meantime; and how the King
    entered Rome, notwithstanding all the Endeavours of his Enemies
    to the contrary; and of the Factions between the Ursini and the
    Colonne in Rome                                                    145

  CH. XIII.—How King Alphonso caused his Son Ferrand to be
    crowned King; his Flight into Sicily; and of the evil Life his
    Father (old Ferrand) and he had led during their Reigns            149

  CH. XIV.—How King Alphonso fled into Castile and did Penance         153

  CH. XV.—How, after Ferrand the Younger was crowned King of
    Naples, he encamped with his Forces at St. Germain, in order
    to oppose King Charles; and of the Agreement King Charles made
    with the Pope during his stay at Rome                              157

  CH. XVI.—How the King departed from Rome to Naples; of the
    Transactions in that Kingdom in the Meantime; and an Account of
    the Places the King of France passed through in his March          159

  CH. XVII.—How King Charles was crowned King of Naples; the
    Errors he committed in his Government of that Kingdom; and of
    the Discovery of a Design in his Favour against the Turks by
    the Venetians                                                      163

  CH. XVIII.—A Digression or Discourse, by no Means unconnected
    with the main Subject, in which Philip de Commines, Author
    of this present Book, speaks at some Length of the State and
    Government of the Signory of Venice, and of what he saw, and
    what was done, while he was Ambassador from the King of France
    in the City of Venice                                              168

  CH. XIX.—What were the Subjects of the Embassy of the Lord of
    Argenton to the Republic of Venice                                 173

  CH. XX.—How the Lord of Argenton was informed that the King
    had gained Possession of Naples and the Places round about; at
    which the Venetians were displeased                                177

                             BOOK THE EIGHTH.

  CH. I.—Of the Order in which the King left his Affairs in the
    Kingdom of Naples upon his Return into France                      183

The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b Containing the histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII. Kings of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. To which is added the Scandalous Chronicle, or, secret history of Louis XI., by Jean de Troyes.

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