Chapter III: Preface: To Fourth Edition

I have only to thank my critics, and especially Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Fotheringham, for many helpful suggestions.

Oxford, _Jan. 1903_.

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1. Spain, 1494-1598, xvi
2. The Swiss Confederation, 119
3. Netherlands, 314
4. Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries, 473
5. Italy, 1494-1559, }
6. France, 1494-1598, } _at end of book_
7. Germany in 1547, }

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Bibliography, x

Introduction, 1

I. The Italian Wars, 1494-1518,, 4

II. Internal History of France, Spain, and Germany,
1494-1519, 90

III. From the Election of Charles to the Battle of
Pavia, 129

IV. From the Treaty of Madrid to the Treaty of
Crespi, 181

V. From the War of Schmalkalde to the Treaty of
Cateau Cambrésis, 220

VI. The Counter-Reformation and Calvinism, 261

VII. Philip and Spain, 277

VIII. The Revolt of the Netherlands, 315

IX. The Reformation and the Civil Wars in France, 387

Appendix I.--The French Constitution in the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries, 449

Appendix II.--Constitution of Florence in the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries, 458

Appendix III.--Venetian Constitution in the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries, 467

LIST OF POPES AND GENEALOGIES, 472

INDEX, 477

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE[1]

General--

_Cambridge Modern History_, vol. i.

Lavisse et Rambaud, _Histoire Générale_.

Creighton, _History of the Papacy during the Reformation_, c.
vii. to the end.

Philippson, _La Contre-Révolution religieuse_.

Ranke, _Fürsten und Völker von Süd-Europa im 16ten u. 17ten
Jahrhundert_.
_Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschreiber._

_Maps._--Spruner Menke, No. 8. Putzger, _Historischer School
Atlas_.
Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, No. 8.

_N.B._--The Clarendon Press Maps, with Notes, can be purchased separately, the Spruner without Notes.

A chronological summary will be found in Hassall, _Handbook of European History_.

France--

_Cambridge Modern History_, c. xii.

Martin, _Histoire de France_.

Michelet, _Histoire de France_.

Grant, _The French Monarchy_.

Gasquet, _Précis des Institutions Politiques et Sociales de
l’ancienne France_.

Chéruel, _Dictionnaire historique des Institutions, mœurs et
costumes de la France_.

Cherrier, _Histoire de Charles VIII._

Godefroy, Théod., _Histoire de Charles VIII. et Louis XII._ (a
collection of Chronicles).

Müntz, _La Renaissance en Italie et en France à l’Époque de
Charles VIII._

Philippe de Commines, _Mémoires_.

Lettenhove: Commines, _Lettres et négoc. avec un Commentaire_.

Memoirs given in Pétitot, Michaud et Poujoulat, especially
_Fleuranges_, _Bayard_, _Tavannes_, _Condé_, _La Noue_.

Mignet, _Rivalité de François Ier et de Charles Quint_.

De Thou, _Historiarum sui temporis libri_ cxxxviii. (translated
into French).

Ranke, _Französische Geschichte_ (translated _The Civil Wars in
France_).

Armstrong, _Civil Wars in France_.

Baird, _The Rise of the Huguenots_.

Forneron, _Les Ducs de Guise_.

Aumale, duc d’, _Histoire des Princes de Condé_.

Delaborde, _Coligny_.

Whitehead, _Coligny_.

Solden, _Geschichte des Protestantismus in Frankreich_.

Willert, _Henry IV._ (Heroes of Nations Series).

Mornay, Ph., du Plessis _Mémoires_.

_Maps._--Spruner Menke, No. 54.
Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, Nos. 57, 58.

Germany--

_Cambridge Modern History_, cc. ix. xvi. xvii. xviii. xix.

Nitzsch, _Geschichte des deutschen Volkes_.

Krönes, _Handbuch der Geschichte Österreichs_.

Ranke, _Geschichte der romanischen und germanischen Völker_
(translated.)

Bezold, _Geschichte der deutschen Reformation_ (Onckens
Series).

Alman, _Kaiser Maximilian I._

Vehse, _Memoirs of the House of Austria_ (translated).

Hutten, Ulrich von, _Schriften_. Ed. Bocking.

Strauss, _Ulrich von Hutten_ (translated).

Geiger, _Renaissance und Humanismus in Italien und Deutschland_
(Onckens Series).
_Johann Reuchlin._

Erasmus, _Opera_. Ed. Le Clerc.

Froude, _Erasmus_.

Lamprecht, _Deutsche Geschichte_ (good for the Social and
Economic History).

Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.

Zeller, _Histoire d’Allemagne: La Réformation_.

Ranke, _Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation_ (part
translated).

Janssen, _Geschichte des deutschen Volkes seit dem Ausgange des
Mittelalters_ (in course of translation).

Beard, _The Hibbert Lectures_, 1803.

Köstlin, _Martin Luther_.

Maurenbrecher, _Studien u. Skizzen zur Reformationszeit_.
_Geschichte der katholischen Reform_.
_Karl V. und die deutschen Protestanten_.

Armstrong, _Charles V._

Baumgarten, _Geschichte Karls V._

Garchard, _Life of Charles_, in _Biographie Nationale_, vol.
iii.

Mignet, _Rivalité de François Ier et de Charles Quint_.

Sir Stirling Maxwell, _Cloister life of Charles V._

Lanz, _Correspondenz des Kaisers Karl V._
_Staatspapiere zur Geschichte des Kaisers Karl V._

Bradford, _Correspondence of Charles V._

Garchard, _Correspondance de Charles Quint et d’Adrien VI._

Brandenburg, _Moritz von Sachsen_.

Ranke, _Zur deutschen Geschichte vom Religionsfrieden bis zum
dreißigjährigen Krieg_.

Wolf, G., _Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der
Gegenreformation_.

Köstlin, _Martin Luther_.

Kampschutte, _Calvin_.

_Maps._--Spruner Menke, Nos. 43, 73, 74.
Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, Nos. 37, 38, 39, 47.

Bohemia--

Palacky, _Geschichte von Böhmen_.

_Map._--Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, No. 46.

Switzerland--

Dierauer, _Geschichte der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft_.

Coolidge, _Article in Encyclopædia Brit_.

_Map._--Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, No. 44.

Italy--

Cf. _Cambridge Modern History_, cc. iv, v, vi, vii, viii, xvi,
xvii, xviii, xix.

Gregorovius, _Geschichte der Stadt Rom_, vols. vii. viii.
(translated).

Creighton, _Popes of the Reformation_.

Ranke, _Die römischen Päpste_ (translated).

Pastor, _Geschichte der Päpste_ (translated).

Sismondi, _Histoire des Républiques italiennes du moyen âge_.

Brown, H. F., _Kalendar of Venetian State Papers_.
_Venice_.

Romanin, _Storia documentata di Venezia_.

Perrens, _Histoire de Florence_.

Guicciardini, _Storia d’Italia_.
_Considerazione intorno ai Discorsi di Machiavelli_:
opere inedite, vol. i.
_Storia Fiorentina_: opere inedite, vol. iii.

Guido Capponi, _Storia della repubblica di Firenza_.

Capponi, G. A., _Storia del Reame di Napoli_.

Jovius, _Vitæ illustrium virorum: Elogia virorum illustrium:
Historia sui temporis_.

_Burcardas Diarium._ Ed. Thuasne, 1883-1885.

_Giustiniani Dispacci._ Ed. Villari.

Albèri, _La relazione degli Ambasciatori Veneti al Senato
durante il Secolo_ xvi.

Da Porto, _Lettere Storiche_.

Sanuto, I _Diarii_.

Symonds, _The Renaissance in Italy_.

Zeller, _Italie et la Renaissance_.

Burckhardt, _Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien_
(translated).

Geiger, _Humanismus und Renaissance in Italien und Deutschland_
(Onckens Series).

Yriarte, _Venise_.
_César Borgia._
_La vie d’un Patricien de Venise._

Burd, _Machiavelli: Il Principe_ (with Biographical and other
Notes).

Machiavelli, _Storia Fiorentina_ (French translation, Perier,
1842).
_Legazioni e Commissarii_, vol. iii. of _Opere
Discorsi_.

Morley, _Machiavelli_ (Romanes Lecture).

Villari, _Niccolò Machiavelli_ (translated).
_La Storia di G. Savonarola_ (translated).

Ranke, _Savonarola u. die florentinische Republik_.

Sarpi Paolo, _Istoria del Concilio Tridentino_ (translated into
French by Courrayer).

_Maps._--Spruner Menke, No. 27.
Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, Nos. 68, 69.

Spain and Netherlands--

_Cambridge Modern History_, cc. xi. xiii.

Schäfer und Schirrmaker, _Geschichte von Spanien_.

Lafuente, _Historia general de España_.

Prescott, _Ferdinand and Isabella_.
_Philip II._

Forneron, _Histoire de Philippe II._

Hume, _Spain_.
_Philip of Spain_ (Foreign Statesmen Series).

Philippson, _West Europa im Zeitalter von Philip II._

Bergenroth, _Calendar of Spanish State Papers_.

Ranke, _Die Osmanen und die spanische Monarchie im 16ten und
17ten Jahrhundert_ (translated).

Lettenhove, _Histoire de Flandre_.

Harrison, _William the Silent_ (Foreign Statesmen Series).

Miss Putnam, _History of the People of the Netherlands_
(translated from Dutch of Blok).
_William the Silent._

Guillaume Le Taciturne. _Correspondance._ Ed. Gachard.

Motley, _The United Netherlands_.

_Maps._--Spruner Menke, No. 19.
Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, Nos. 61, 62, 52.

The Ottomans--

_Cambridge Modern History_, c. iii.

La Jonquière, _Histoire de l’Empire ottoman_.

Finlay, _History of Greece_.

Hammer-Purgstall, _Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches_.

Ranke, _Die Osmanen und die spanische Monarchie im 16ten und
17ten Jahrhundert_ (translated).

_Maps._--Spruner Menke, No. 89.
Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, No. 82.

Discovery--

_Cambridge Modern History_, cc. i. ii.

Bancroft, _The Pacific States of North America_.

Beazley, _The Dawn of Modern Geography_.
_John Sebastian Cabot_ (Builders of Great Britain
Series).

Danvers, _The Portuguese in India_.

Fiske, _The Discovery of America_.

Harrisse, _Christophe Colomb_.
_John Cabot._
_The Discovery of North America._

Markham, Sir C. R., _Life of Christopher Columbus_.
_History of Peru._

Kretchmer, _Die Entdeckung Amerikas_.

Payne, _History of the New World called America_.

Peschel, _Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen_.

Prescott, _History of Conquest of Mexico_.
_History of Conquest of Peru._

Winsor, _Narrative and Critical History of America_.

_Maps._--Spruner Menke, No. 20.
Clarendon Press Historical Atlas, No. 85.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This list may be supplemented by reference to the following
Bibliographies:--

I. _The Cambridge Modern History_, of which vol. i. has already
appeared.

II. Armstrong, _Charles V._

III. Monod, _Bibliographie de l’Histoire de France_.

IV. Dahlmann-Waitz, _Quellenkunde der deutschen Geschichte_.

V. Förster, _Kritischer Wegweiser durch die neuere deutsche
historische Litteratur_.

VI. Pirenne, _Bibliographie de l’histoire de Belgique_.

VII. Lavisse et Rambaud, _Histoire Générale_.