Baccio Valori, a Medicean who had been in the imperialist camp, now took charge, and the city was occupied by foreign troops.
Presently his imperialist views cooled, and at the Restoration he became minister of state and a peer of France.
The imperialist army of Eugene and the allies under Marlborough (52,000 strong) encamped 5 m.
In 1619 it was captured by the imperialist general, Karl Bonaventura de Longueval, Graf von Buquoy, and suffered so severely that the citizens opened their gates to his opponent, Ernst von Mansfeld.
He was already taunted with being an Imperialist, but his independent attitude won public approval.
