My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall Of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of ...My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall Of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.