Caption:
Sacco di Roma, 6 May 1527. (Pillage of Rome by Spanish and German troops under Charles V). Mercenaries mock the pope by imitating the papal procession. Copper engraving by Matthäus Merian. (1593-1650). From: Joh. Ludw. Gottfried, Historische Chronica, Frankfurt a. M. (Merian) 1630, p. 720; colourised at a later stage.