Commissioned Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgement’, was the ‘handsomest’ of all Supreme Pontiffs, and got captured by Emperor Charles V. — The Sacking of Rome (1527) The Duke of Bourbon had defected to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V’s side, and was thus in command of his forces in Italy. In 1524, incidentally (or divinely orchestrated to be) on the Emperor’s birthday, this very army had already captured King Francis I of France. Similarly to most…