They lost their general in Lombardy.

The Constable Bourbon, who succeeded him, died in the assault of the city.

Then Rome for nine months was abandoned to the lust, rapacity, and cruelty of some 30,000 brigands without a leader.

It was then discovered to what lengths of insult, violence, and bestiality the brutal barbarism of Germans and the avarice of Spaniards could be carried.

Clement, beleaguered in the Castle of S.Angelo, saw day and night the smoke ascend from desolated palaces and desecrated temples, heard the wailing of women and the groans of tortured men mingle with the jests of Lutheran drunkards and the curses of Castilian bandits.