Ruffo's

Ruffo's 45 years of preparation included study of the 75 sources listed in the Bibliography, books such as Bernal Díaz del Castillo (a comrade of Cortés), Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva Espana, written in 1568, and Codex chimalpopoca, written in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, in the early 1500s.

Mejico: The Conquest Of An Ancient Civilization 2007

Ruffo's 45 years of preparation included study of the 75 sources listed in the Bibliography, books such as Bernal Díaz del Castillo (a comrade of Cortés), Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva Espana, written in 1568, and Codex chimalpopoca, written in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, in the early 1500s.

Mejico: The Conquest Of An Ancient Civilization 2007

The people, detesting the impiety, and groaning beneath the exactions of these perfidious robbers, were ready to join any regular force that should come to their assistance; but they dreaded Cardinal Ruffo's rabble, and declared they would resist him as a banditti, who came only for the purpose of pillage.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Cardinal Ruffo's army, now amounting to forty thousand men, backed by detachments of foreign troops, and by regiments landed from Sicily, had improved in discipline and organisation, and, flushed with their successes, ventured to attack Naples.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

The Cardinal's troops cut him off from Naples, and whilst gallantly endeavouring to force a passage through them and assist the city, his little band, fifteen hundred in number, was assailed by a body of Russians, and by a thousand Calabrians under the command of Pano di Grano, a returned galley slave, and Ruffo's favourite officer.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

Cardinal Ruffo's forces increased; he besieged and took several towns, and overran entire provinces, his ferocious followers committing, as they proceeded, the most terrible excesses and acts of cruelty.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

The English had not yet landed, but some of Ruffo's former followers had been put on shore, and laboured, not unsuccessfully, to induce the peasantry to revolt.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

"Gaspare, it seems to me" -- Hermione was speaking now very slowly, like one shaping a thought in her mind while she spoke -- "it seems to me strange that you and Ruffo's mother should have known each other so well long before Ruffo was born, and that she should cry because she met you at the Festa, and that -- afterwards -- she should ask Ruffo that."

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Again, as long ago, when she knelt before a mountain shrine in the night, she had put herself imaginatively in the place of a woman, this time in the place of Ruffo's mother.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Ruffo's mother knew Gaspare, must have known him intimately in the past.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907