CHAPTER VII. THE SIEGE OF FAENZA

The second campaign of the Romagna had opened for Cesare as easily as had the first. So far his conquest had been achieved by little more than a processional display of his armed legions. Like another Joshua, he reduced cities by the mere blare of his trumpets. At last, however, he was to receive a check. Where grown men had fled cravenly at his approach, it remained for a child to resist him at Faenza, as a woman had resisted him at Forli.

His progress north from Pesaro was of necessity slow. He paused, as we have seen, at Rimini, and he paused again, and for a rather longer spell, at Forli, so that it was not until the second week of November that Astorre Manfredi--the boy of sixteen who was to hold Faenza--caught in the distance the flash of arms and the banners with the bull device borne by the host which the Duke of Valentinois led against him.

At first it had been Astorre's intent to follow the examples set him by Malatesta and Sforza, and he had already gone so far as to remove his valuables to Ravenna, whither he, too, meant to seek refuge. But he was in better case than any of the tyrants so far deposed inasmuch as his family, which had ruled Faenza for two hundred years, had not provoked the hatred of its subjects, and these were now ready and willing to stand loyally by their young lord. But loyalty alone can do little, unless backed by the might of arms, against such a force as Cesare was prepared to hurl upon Faenza. This Astorre realized, and for his own and his subjects' sake was preparing to depart, when, to his undoing, support reached him from an unexpected quarter.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. whose example did Astorre want to follow?
2. what had he done so far?
3. Did his family rule anywhere?
4. how many years?
5. did the people there like them?
6. what had opened for Cesare?
7. was it easy for him?
8. what did he display?
9. what reduced the cities?
10. was he ever resisted by a woman?
11. where?
12. who would resist him at Faenza?
13. was he young?
14. did Cesare see him as a child?
15. was his progress north quick?
16. where did he stop?
17. were Astorre's people willing to be with him?
18. but what was more important?
19. what month did Astorre see the Duke in the distance?
20. what did he want to do for his people's sake?
1. Malatesta and Sforza
2. Removed his valuables to Ravenna,
3. Faenza
4. 200 years
5. Yes
6. The second campaign of the Romagna
7. Yes
8. His armed legions
9. The blare of his trumpets.
10. Yes
11. Forli
12. Astorre Manfredi
13. 16
14. Yes
15. No
16. Rimini
17. Yes
18. The might of arms
19. November.
20. Depart