Sack of Rome
The Emperor's mercenaries ravage the Eternal City
On 6 May 1527 unpaid, mutinous landsknechts and Spanish soldiers of Charles V stormed Rome. Pope Clement VII took refuge in Castel Sant'Angelo while the city was plundered for months; the year is often seen as the end of the High Renaissance in Rome.
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