History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

THIS EDITION of Ferdinand Gregorovius History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages is based on the English translation of the fourth German edition. Volume VII is in two parts. Part 1 includes an introduction to Gregorovius and his work by David S. Chambers of the Warburg Institute London and Book Thirteen Chapters 1-4 of Gregorovius History. BOOK THIRTEEN CHAPTERS 1-4 covers the years 1421 to 1496. It treats the Renaissance; Martin V Eugenius IV and the Conciliar movement; the mercenaries Fortebraccio and Sforza; Cardinal Vitelleschi and Ludovico Scarampo tyrants of Rome; Stefano Porcaro and the Republic; Nicholas V the Council of Basle the Jubilee of 1450; the rise of the Borgia; Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini elected Pope Pius II; the Humanists in Rome; the Tiburziani; the crusade against the Turks; the Caraffa Riario Rovere and Medici; the Orsini and Colonna in the Renaissance; Sixtus IV Innocent VIII; Roderigo Borgia elected Pope Alexander VI; Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia; Italy invaded by Charles VIII of France.