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1 1 | considered the matter, that all men, or the larger number of
2 1 | lowly beginnings of great men occur because Fortune is
3 1 | showing to the world that such men owe much to her and little
4 1 | of Lucca was one of those men who did great deeds, if
5 1 | him a great exemplar to men. I think also that I ought
6 1 | actions, because you of all men I know delight most in noble
7 2 | and the mighty deeds of men. Messer Antonio beheld all
8 3 | valour excelled all other men in Lucca. He had often fought
9 4 | deferential to the great men, modest with his equals,
10 5 | universal goodwill, for many men suspected him of harbouring
11 6 | mountains and Pisa with many men, the signal was given, and
12 6 | Uguccione entered with his men, poured through the town,
13 7 | battle, and his less reliable men on the wings of the army;
14 7 | putting his most valiant men on the flanks, while those
15 7 | valiant part of Castruccio’s men were opposed to the weaker
16 7 | and the most efficient men of the enemy were disengaged;
17 7 | complete, and the loss in men very heavy, there being
18 7 | being more than ten thousand men killed with many officers
19 7 | more than three hundred men, among whom was Francesco,
20 10| Tuscany by the aid of these men and of his own forces; and
21 10| with arms, and enrolled the men under captains and ensigns,
22 11| an end, yet he posted his men in the most advantageous
23 12| Jacopo da Gia. Each of these men held secret communications
24 14| and Jacopo Baldini, both men of leading and ready to
25 14| ready to face danger. These men kept up communications with
26 14| Florentines had thirty thousand men, whilst he had only twelve
27 14| waters divide, so that twenty men side by side could hold
28 14| enemy, for here his few men would have the advantage,
29 14| that four hundred of his men were to be admitted into
30 15| were unable to get their men either backward or forward,
31 15| Castruccio saw that his men were unable to strike a
32 15| races, and foot races for men and women. He also struck
33 16| Lanfranchi, one of the first men in Pisa, who could not endure
34 17| Castruccio withdrew his men from the banks of the river
35 18| saw the difficulties their men were meeting, they withdrew
36 18| adapted for landing. These men were met at the bank by
37 18| confusion. The fight between the men of Castruccio and those
38 18| Castruccio shouted to his men that these were the same
39 18| lasted, and that both his men and the enemy were utterly
40 18| and already lined by the men of Castruccio, and this
41 18| two hundred and thirty-one men, whilst Castruccio lost
42 18| five hundred and seventy men.~
43 19| Fucecchio to welcome his men on their return from victory
44 20| hast also Pisa, where the men are of nature changeable
45 22| abilities, not only measured by men of his own time, but also
46 22| presence, and he welcomed men with such urbanity that
47 22| was accustomed to say that men ought to attempt everything
48 22| God is a lover of strong men, because one always sees
49 22| Castruccio praised greatly those men who intended to take a wife
50 22| saying that they were like men who said they would go to
51 22| with surprise that whilst men in buying an earthen or
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