That sack of Capua is one of the most horrid pages in the horrid history of sacks.

You will find full details in d'Auton's chronicle, if you have a mind for such horrors.

There is a brief summary of the event in Burchard's diary under date of July 26, 1501, which runs as follows: "At about the fourth hour last night the Pope had news of the capture of Capua by the Duke of Valentinois.

The capture was due to the treason of one Fabrizio--a citizen of Capua--who secretly introduced the besiegers and was the first to be killed by them.

After him the same fate was met by some three thousand foot and some two hundred horse-soldiers, by citizens, priests, conventuals of both sexes, even in the very churches and monasteries, and all the women taken were given in prey to the greatest cruelty.