294/421 and Innocent VI. He kept his word most scrupulously. After leaving the church of St.Peter, he went with a grand retinue to St.John's di Latrana, where he dined, and, in the evening, under pretext of a hunting-party, he went and slept at St.Lorenzo, beyond the walls. He had there many conferences with the Cardinal Albornoz, to whom he promised troops for the purpose of reducing the tyrants with whom the Legate was at war. His Majesty then went to Pisa, where, on the 21st of May, 1355, a sedition broke out against him, which nearly cost him his life. |