Excerpt from The History of the Popes, From the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 9: Drawn From the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources
The Anarchic condition of the Papal States. The efforts of Henry VIII. And Francis I. To deliver the Pope. The attitude of Charles V The ?ight of Clement VII. To Orvieto.
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