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THE WHOLE world was now in warfare. Pope Clement had sent to get se troops fr Giovanni de' Medici, and when they came, they made such disturbances in Re, that it was ill living in open shops. On this account I retired to a good snug house behind the Banchi, where I worked for all the friends I had acquired. Since I produced few things of much importance at that period, I need not waste time in talking about them. I took much pleasure in music and amusements of the kind. On the death of Giovanni de' Medici in Lbardy, the Pope, at the advice of Messer Jacopo Salviati, dismissed the five bands he had engaged; and when the Constable of Bourbon knew there were no troops in Re, he pushed his army with the utmost energy up to the city. The whole of Re upon this flew to arms. I happened to be intimate with Alessandro, the son of Piero del Bene, who, at the time when the Colonnesi entered Re, had requested me to guard his palace. On this more serious occasion, therefore, he prayed me to enlist fifty crades for the protection of the said house, appointing me their captain, as I had been when the Colonnesi came. So I collected fifty young men of the highest courage, and we took up our quarters in his palace, with good pay and excellent appointments.
Bourbon's army had now arrived before the walls of Re, and Alessandro begged me to go with him to reconnoitre. So we went with one of the stoutest fellows in our Cpany; and on the way a youth called Cecchino della Casa joined himself to us. On reaching the walls by the Campo Santo, we could see that famous army, which was making every effort to enter the town. Upon the ramparts where we took our station several young men were lying killed by the besiegers; the battle raged there desperately, and there was the densest fog imaginable. I turned to Alessandro and said: “Let us go he as soon as we can, for there is nothing to be done here; you see the enemies are mounting, and our men are in flight.” Alessandro, in a panic, cried: “Would God that we had never ce here!” and turned in maddest haste to fly. I took him up sewhat sharply with these words: “Since you have brought me here, I must perform se action worthy of a man;” and directing my arquebuse where I saw the thickest and most serried troop of fighting men, I aimed exactly at one wh I remarked to be higher than the rest; the fog prevented me fr being certain whether he was on horseback or on foot. Then I turned to Alessandro and Cecchino, and bade them discharge their arquebuses, showing them how to avoid being hit by the besiegers. When we had fired two rounds apiece, I crept cautiously up to the wall, and observing among the enemy a most extraordinary confusion, I discovered afterwards that one of our shots had killed the Constable of Bourbon; and fr what I subsequently learned, he was the man wh I had first noticed above the heads of the rest.
Quitting our position on the ramparts, we crossed the Campo Santo, and entered the city by St. Peter's; then cing out exactly at the church of Santo Agnolo, we got with the greatest difficulty to the great gate of the castle; for the generals Renzo di Ceri and Orazio Baglioni were wounding and slaughtering everybody who abandoned the defence of the walls. By the time we
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XXXIV
THE WHOLE world was now in warfare. Pope Clement had sent to get se troops fr Giovanni de' Medici, and when they came, they made such disturbances in Re, that it was ill living in open shops. On this account I retired to a good snug house behind the Banchi, where I worked for all the friends I had acquired. Since I produced few things of much importance at that period, I need not waste time in talking about them. I took much pleasure in music and amusements of the kind. On the death of Giovanni de' Medici in Lbardy, the Pope, at the advice of Messer Jacopo Salviati, dismissed the five bands he had engaged; and when the Constable of Bourbon knew there were no troops in Re, he pushed his army with the utmost energy up to the city. The whole of Re upon this flew to arms. I happened to be intimate with Alessandro, the son of Piero del Bene, who, at the time when the Colonnesi entered Re, had requested me to guard his palace. On this more serious occasion, therefore, he prayed me to enlist fifty crades for the protection of the said house, appointing me their captain, as I had been when the Colonnesi came. So I collected fifty young men of the highest courage, and we took up our quarters in his palace, with good pay and excellent appointments.
Bourbon's army had now arrived before the walls of Re, and Alessandro begged me to go with him to reconnoitre. So we went with one of the stoutest fellows in our Cpany; and on the way a youth called Cecchino della Casa joined himself to us. On reaching the walls by the Campo Santo, we could see that famous army, which was making every effort to enter the town. Upon the ramparts where we took our station several young men were lying killed by the besiegers; the battle raged there desperately, and there was the densest fog imaginable. I turned to Alessandro and said: “Let us go he as soon as we can, for there is nothing to be done here; you see the enemies are mounting, and our men are in flight.” Alessandro, in a panic, cried: “Would God that we had never ce here!” and turned in maddest haste to fly. I took him up sewhat sharply with these words: “Since you have brought me here, I must perform se action worthy of a man;” and directing my arquebuse where I saw the thickest and most serried troop of fighting men, I aimed exactly at one wh I remarked to be higher than the rest; the fog prevented me fr being certain whether he was on horseback or on foot. Then I turned to Alessandro and Cecchino, and bade them discharge their arquebuses, showing them how to avoid being hit by the besiegers. When we had fired two rounds apiece, I crept cautiously up to the wall, and observing among the enemy a most extraordinary confusion, I discovered afterwards that one of our shots had killed the Constable of Bourbon; and fr what I subsequently learned, he was the man wh I had first noticed above the heads of the rest.
Quitting our position on the ramparts, we crossed the Campo Santo, and entered the city by St. Peter's; then cing out exactly at the church of Santo Agnolo, we got with the greatest difficulty to the great gate of the castle; for the generals Renzo di Ceri and Orazio Baglioni were wounding and slaughtering everybody who abandoned the defence of the walls. By the time we
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