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Updated: May 13, 2025
Immediately the golden doors were flung open, and Bonnivet entered from the supper-room, followed by a company of soldiers. Gonzague turned to Bonnivet, indignant and bewildered. "What does this mean?" he gasped. Bonnivet's answer was to salute with his sword, as he announced: "His majesty the king!"
I had never been admitted before, and from the doorway, where I paused in Bonnivet's keeping, I viewed the scene with an interest that for the first time overcame my sense of injustice. The long room hummed with talk; a crowd of churchmen and pages, with a sprinkling of the lesser nobility, many lawyers and some soldiers, filled it from end to end.
The campaign of 1524 in Italy, brilliant as was its beginning, what with the number and the fine appearance of the troops under Bonnivet's orders, was, as it went on, nothing but a series of hesitations, contradictory movements, blunders, and checks, which the army itself set down to its general's account.
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