234 F. SFORZA DIES, MARCHESVAN, 5296. קב the edge of the sword; and these had no deliverer. And they took the captives and the prey*, and went their way unto Algiers, and abode there. The posts went out hastening unto the emperors, saying, "According to this thing hath Barbarossa done;" and he was very wroth. Also on the soldiers who had returned unto Italy, was the hand of the Lord to confound and to destroy them. And there died of them many in the ships, of the sicknesses which the Lord caused to be among them, lacking every thing. And seven hundred Germans and two hundred Italians sank as lead in mighty waters‡, for the Lord drave the sea with a strong east wind§, and he caused them to reel to and fro like a drunken man, and to be at their wit's end; and the ship was broken, and only thirty men were saved of them. And the best rams which they took at Goletta were in that ship, and they sank into the bottom as a stone¶, in the eighth month, which is the month Marchesvan two hundred and ninety-six, after the small date. 903. At the end of that month, Francesco Sforza duke of Milan, fell sick of the sickness whereof he died**, and he was gathered unto his *Numb. xxxi. 12. + Esth. viii. 14. § Exod. x. 13; xiv. 21. Exod. xv. 10. Ps. cvii. 27. q Exod. xv. 5. קב CHARLES AT NAPLES, NOVEMBER 30. 235 people. And with him, ceased and were at an end the Sforze; there remained not one heir of the government*; and he left the dukedom unto the emperor at that time. 904. And the emperor removed from Messina and came with his ships unto Naples on the thirtieth day of the month of November. And the nobles of the city went out to meet him; and they honored him, and brought him into the city; and the sea and the land trembled at the sound of the battering-rams, of the tabrets, and of the high-sounding trumpetst. And he came into the castle, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and cried with a loud voice, May the emperor live for ever!+" 66 905. And the men who were driven away from Florence went unto the emperor while he was yet at Naples, in the tenth month; and behold they were about two hundred men. And they cried before him, "Aha!§" concerning that which Alessandro, the duke, had done unto them, for he had made himself altogether a prince over them, which was not according to the law; their blood he spilled like water; and he builded himself a fort, and exalted himself in his heart, saying, "Who Judges xviii. 7. Num. xvi. 13. + Num. xxxi. 6. ¶ Esth. iv. 16. 236 ALESSANDRO MARRIED. קב shall bring me down to the ground* ?" And they asked of him, to restore the counsellors of Florence as at the first, and its judges as at the beginning, as he had vowed to do; and Alessandro, the duke, went also thither, and the men between whom was the controversy, stood before the emperor who spake to their hearts at that time, saying, that he would restore every man to his possession, only that the duke should be head over them; but they hearkened not unto his voice. And they said, "Is it to know with what we should serve the duke, we are come hither, that thou speakest unto us such words?§" And when they saw that there was nothing in the mouth of the emperor according to their desire, they went out from him, and went their way. 906. And the Duke Alessandro dei Medici went daily to bow before the daughter of the emperor; and they rejoiced there. This is the woman whom the emperor vowed unto the Pope Clement to give to Alessandro to wife. 907. And the emperor gave her to him to wife in those days; and he lay with her, and he made a great feast. And it came to pass, after some days, that Alessandro journeyed thence, and returned unto his country with gladness. * Obadiah, iii. † Isa. i. 26. § Exod. x. 26. Deut. xix. 17; 2 Sam. xv. 2. קג IBRAHIM PASHA EXECUTED, A.D. 1536. 237 908. And there was peace between Francis, the king of France, and between Barbarossa, and both of them made a covenant*. And he sent messengers unto Francis, and his ships remained [p] at Marseilles until they returned, and went unto their country. From Algiers, Haradin journeyed to Turkey; and Solyman received him with gladness, and made him chief of his host. 909. And Solyman promoted Ibrahim Pasha, the Grecian, the oppressor of the Jews, and advanced him above all the princes that were with him. And he exalted himself in his heart, saying, "I will be king;" and he had dealings with the emperor, and secretly practised mischief against his master. And the thing was known§, and they told it unto the king after his return from the slaughter of the host of the Sofi; and when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out¶. And the king was very wroth, and his anger burned within him**. And the king commanded on the fifteenth day of the month v'Adar two hundred and ninety-six, in the year one thousand five hundred and thirty-six, and they brought him down to the grave in blood. in blood. Then had the Jews light * Gen. xxi. 27. 1 Sam. xxiii. 9. || Gen. xiv. 17. ** Esth. i. 12. † Esth. iii. 1. 238 LUTHERANISM AT GENOA. קג and gladness*, for he was an oppressor from the womb, and sought to root out all of them, if it had not been the Lord who was on our sidet. And they fought from heaven against him, so that he fell to the ground. The Lord is righteous§. 910. And Genoa rebelled against the duke of Savoy, and against the law of the pope. They turned also after Lutheranism, according as the men of Ivernah|| had done at that time, and they cast down the sanctuaries, where the priest burned incense, for their soul loathed that service, and the duke sent men against it to war. And they also gathered together soldiers; and the nobles of Ivernah and the king helped them; and they discomfited the men of the duke with the edge of the sword**; and they that remained returned into Italy with shame; and the king and the nobles of Ivernah took all the cities of the duke, which he had on the other side of the mountain in those days. 911. And the king gathered again a great host of horsemen and footmen; and he sent them into Italy in the month Abib. And his fear fell upon all the nations; all the inhabitants of the land melted away before him. And Monseigneur Danibott, Esth. viii. 16. , perhaps Bern. ** Exod. xvii. 12. † Ps. cxxiv. 2. Num. xxi. 5. .דאניבו ++ |