Word: salviati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came down from Lombardy, where they had mutinied for 150,000 ducats in back pay. In a misty May dawn, the Germans and Spaniards breached Rome's walls, ran amuck. They ransacked, burned, profaned, tortured, raped, murdered. The Pope became the Emperor's captive.* Wrote Eyewitness Cardinal Salviati: "Every possible infamy was committed. . . . They were Christians, yet they did that which I never heard of being done by Turks...