Excerpt from History of Latin Christianity, Vol. 6: Including That of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V In the morning the disturbance without waxed more terrible. A vain attempt was made to address the popu lace by the three Cardinal Priors; they were driven from the windows with loud derisive shouts, A Roman! A Roman! For now the alternative of an Italian had been abandoned; a Roman, none but a Roman, would content the people. The madness of intoxication was added to the madness of popular fury. The rabble had broken open the Pope's cellar, and drunk his rich wines.g In the Conclave the wildest projects were started. The Cardinal Orsini's was to dress 11p a Minorite Friar (pro bably a Spiritual) in the Papal robes, to show him to the people, and so for themselves to effect their escape to some safe place, and proceed to a legitimate election. The Cardinals, from honour or from fear, shrunk from this trick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.