Sack of Rome (1527) - in Fiction

In Fiction

• The sack is depicted in episode 12 of the Italian TV-miniseries produced in 2009, "The Falcon and the Dove"
• The sack is recounted in the final part of La Lozana Andaluza, a Spanish novel by Francisco Delicado describing the adventures of an Andalusian prostitute in the corrupt city.
• The sack is also described in the early part of Ines of My Soul (2006) a historical novel by Isabel Allende, from the point of view of Pedro de Valdivia, as a captain in the attacking army who tried to keep the troops from mutiny. (Spanish Original: Ines del Alma Mía)
• Finnish writer Mika Waltari included a chapter regarding the sack of Rome in his historical novel The Adventurer (Finnish original: Mikael Karvajalka).
• It is also part of the novel De scharlaken stad by Dutch writer Hella S. Haasse.
• These events form the background to chapter 42 of Stephen Baxter's 2003 science fiction novel Coalescent.
• Sarah Dunant's novel, titled In the Company of the Courtesan, begins with the sack of Rome and a graphic depiction of rape and pillage that continued unabated for months on end.
• Testaclese and ye Sack of Rome, a comedy in one act performed by Sound & Fury (Richard Maritzer, founder and troupe leader), has played at various Renaissance fairs.
• The 1527 Sack has an important role in the early episodes of comics series Dago.
• The Sack of Rome is discussed in Richard Powers's novel Operation Wandering Soul.
• Ferruccio Cerio's The Barbarians (1953) starring Pierre Cressoy
• Amin Maalouf's 1986 novel, Leo Africanus
• In his Prologue to Hecatommithi (1565), Giambattista Giraldi draws on the sack of Rome.
• Rinascimento privato by Maria Bellonci features the life of Isabella d'Este including witness to the sack of Rome.
• Q, a novel by Luther Blissett (nom de plume) that deals with the protestant reformation.
• The 1527 Sack of Rome is discussed as an important event within "True Love" E06S01 of The Tudors TV series