CHAPTER IV.

CATANEO’S EXPEDITION (1488) AGAINST THE DAUPHINESE AND PIEDMONTESE CONFESSORS.

The Confessors of the Dauphinese Alps--Attacked--Flee to Mont Pelvoux--Retreat into a Cave--Are Suffocated--French Crusaders Cross the Alps--Enter the Valley of Pragelas-- Piedmontese Army Advances against La Torre--Deputation of Waldensian Patriarchs--The Valley of Lucerna--Villaro-- Bobbio--Cataneo’s Plan of Campaign--His Soldiers Cross the Col Julien--Grandeurs of the Pass--Valley of Prali--Defeat of Cataneo’s Expedition 31