VICTORY OF CERIGNOLA. ^i which the ereater part of the French were slaugh- chapter . XII tered. An immense booty was found in the cas- '- — tie. The Angevin party had made it a place of deposit for their most valuable effects, gold, jewels, plate, and other treasures, which, together with its well-stored magazines of grain and ammunition, became the indiscriminate spoil of the victors. As some of these, however, complained of not getting their share of the plunder, Gonsalvo, giving full scope in the exultation of the moment to military license, called out gayly, " Make amends for it, then, by what you can find in my quarters!" The words were not uttered to deaf ears. The mob of sol- diery rushed to the splendid palace of the Angevin prince of Salerno, then occupied by the Great Cap- tain, and in a moment its sumptuous furniture, paintings, and other costly decorations, together with the contents of its generous cellar, were seized and appropriated without ceremony by the invaders, who thus indemnified themselves at their general's expense for the remissness of government. After some weeks of protracted operations, the t^e^ki^,^'^^ remaining fortress, Castel d' Uovo, as it was called, "^^""""^ opened its gates to Navarro ; and a French fleet, coming into the harbour, had the mortification to find itself fired on from the walls of the place it was intended to relieve. Before this event, Gon- salvo, having obtained funds from Spain for paying off his men, quitted the capital and directed his march on Gaeta. The important results of his vic- tories were now fully disclosed. D'Aubigny, with the wreck of the forces escaped from Seminara, had
