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 1 5 |        Among these the leading man was Giorgio degli Opizi,
 2 5 |      of the Guelph party. This man hoped after the death of
 3 5 |  Francesco to become the chief man in Lucca, but it seemed
 4 8 |      of Pier Agnolo Micheli, a man of great repute and abilities
 5 11|        Poggio, a peaceable old man who had taken no hand in
 6 15|       through the plains, each man seeking only his own safety.
 7 19|        general to be the first man in the saddle and the last
 8 20| important in this world that a man should know himself, and
 9 22|     seen that Castruccio was a man of exceptional abilities,
10 22|        a street he saw a young man as he came out of a house
11 22|    wonder at that, since every man valued his soul for what
12 22|      been wearied by a similar man with a long oration who
13 22|       afterwards became a fine man, that he was dangerous,
14 22|        husbands. To an envious man who laughed, he said: “Do
15 22|       once asked when should a man eat to preserve his health,
16 22|   health, and replied: “If the man be rich let him eat when
17 22|       this king of yours a bad man or a good one?” asked Castruccio,
18 22|     should be afraid of a good man?”~