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Excerpt from The History of Germany, Vol. 2 of 3: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time In Upper Italy the affairs of the Ghibellines wore a con trary aspect. Ezzelino, after making a desperate defence at Cassano, was defeated, wounded, and taken prisoner. He died of his wounds, [a. D. Scornfully rejecting to the last all spiritual aid. His more gentle brother, Alberich, after seeing his wife and children cruelly butchered, was dragged to death at a horse's tail. The rest of the Ghibelline chiefs met with an equally wretched fate. These horrible scenes of bloodshed worked so forcibly upon the feelings of even the hardened Ital ians, that numbers arrayed themselves in sackcloth, and did penance at the grave of Alberich: this circumstance gave flee to the sect of the Flagellants, who ran lamenting, praying, preach ing repentance, and wounding themselves and others with bloody stripes, through the streets, in order to atone for the sins of the world. 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.