The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1355 Petrarch invites and upbraids the Emperor Charles IV. ib.

He folicits the Popes of Avignon to fix their Re-

fidence at Rome

1367-1370. Return of Urban V.

1377 Final Return of Gregory XI.

1452 Laft Coronation of a German Emperor, Frederic III.

379

Profpect of the Ruins of Rome in the Fifteenth Century.-

Four Caufes of Decay and Deftruction.-Example of the

Colifeum.-Renovation of the City.-Conclufion of the whole

A. D.

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II. The hoftile Attacks of the Barbarians and

Christians

405

III. The Ufe and Abuse of the Materials
IV. The domeftic Quarrels of the Romans

The Coliseum or Amphitheatre of Titus
Games of Rome

1332 A Bull-feaft in the Coliseum

Injuries

And Confecration of the Coliseum
Ignorance and Barbarifm of the Romans

1420 Restoration and Ornaments of the City
Final Conclufion

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

DECLINE AND FALL

OF THE

ROMAN EMPIRE.

CHA P. LXV.

Elevation of Timour, or Tamerlane, to the Throne of
Samarcand.-His Conquefts in Perfia, Georgia,
Tartary, Ruffia, India, Syria, and Anatolia.
His Turkish War.-Defeat and Captivity of Ba-
jazet.-Death of Timour.Civil War of the
Sons of Bajazet.-Refloration of the Turkish
Monarchy by Mahomet the Firft:-Siege of Con-
ftantinople by Amurath the Second.

THE conqueft and monarchy of the world c HAP. was the first object of the ambition of LXV. TIMOUR. To live in the memory and esteem of Hiftories future ages was the fecond with of his magnani- of TImous fpirit. All the civil and military tranfac- Tamerlane, tions of his reign were diligently recorded in the

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