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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. %t tot Pram. This Crime traceable mainly to the House of Medici--Preliminary Attacks--Institution and Object of the Propaganda--Marchioness di Pianezza--Gastaldo's Order--Its Barbarous Execution--Did Rome fear as well as hate the Vaudois?--Greater Sorrows--Composition of the Massacring Army--Waldenses resolve to Fight--Perfidy of Pianezza--The Massacre begins--Its Horrors--Modes of Torture--Individual Martyrs--The Sepoys outdone--Evidence collected by Leger--The Prime Instigator--Appeal to the Protestant States--Interposition of Cromwell--Mission of Sir Samuel Morland--Tragedy at Castelluzzo--Visit to the Cave--Milton's Sonnet. It was the year 1650. The throne of Savoy was filled by Charles Emmanuel II., a youth of fifteen. His mother, the Duchess Christina, governed the kingdom as regent. That mother was sprung of a race which have ever been noted for their dissimulation, their cruelty, and their bigoted devotion to Home. She was the daughter of Mary de Medici of France, and granddaughter of that Catherine de HOUSE OF MEDICI. 219 Medici to whom has been assigned, and we believe on just ground, the main share in the guilt of the awful St Bartholomew Massacre. The base, blind superstition of the grandmother seems to have descended to the granddaughter. In no reign haa the lot of the Vaudois been so wretched, in no reign have their tears and blood so profusely flowed, as in that of Charles Emmanuel; but the fact that this prince was constitutionally mild and humane satisfies us that the main share of all these crimes is to be laid, not at his door, but at that of his cold, cruel, and bloodthirsty mother, the regent. In short, it was not the facile spirit of the House of Savoy, but the astute spirit of the House of Medici, under the promptings o...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150792298
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150792299
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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