Full text: Vasi, Mariano: A new picture of Naples and its environs

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HISTORY OF NAPLES. 
In the year 1493, Charles VIII., being at 
peace with Spain, England, and the Low 
Countries, determined to support the claims of 
he house of Austria to the kingdom of Naples; 
ne was lively and ardent, his favourites en¬ 
couraged him to undertake this conquest, and 
ne accomplished the desired object; he entered 
Naples on the 21st February 1495; he made 
his entry with the imperial ornaments, and 
was saluted with the name of Cæsar Augustus, 
for the Pope Alexander VI. had declared him 
Emperor of Constantinople, on his passage 
into Rome : it is true that Charles VIII. had 
besieged him in the castle of St. Angelo, but 
he atoned for this offence by waiting on him 
at mass, and paying him filial obedience in the 
most solemn manner. 
A short time after, the Venetians, the Pope, 
the Emperor, and the King of Arragon, being 
leagued against Charles VIII., he could not 
preserve his conquest, and he would with dif¬ 
ficulty have regained France, had he not won 
the battle of Fornoua in 1495. Ferdinand II.
	        
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