Book, Chapter
1 I, IV | joined them, and, with the Venetians, Pisans, and Genoese, acquired
2 I, VI | of Venice—Liberty of the Venetians confirmed by Pepin and the
3 I, VI | between the Genoese and the Venetians.~At this time, Charles II.
4 I, VI | great measure settled by the Venetians. Some, perhaps, will think
5 I, VI | deferred speaking of the Venetians, theirs being a republic,
6 I, VI | duke of Benevento and the Venetians did not render obedience
7 I, VI | nation.~For many years the Venetians sought no other dominion
8 I, VI | which being referred to the Venetians, they awarded Brescia and
9 I, VI | and between them and the Venetians several important battles
10 I, VI | during many months, the Venetians were at length victorious;
11 I, VII| Disturbance in Lombardy— The Venetians acquire dominion on terra
12 I, VII| placed themselves under the Venetians, who, engaging in arms with
13 I, VII| Florentines, Genoese, and Venetians, attacked Ladislaus and
14 I, VII| which the Florentines and Venetians carried on against Filippo
15 I, VII| Duke Filippo, part to the Venetians; for all those who had held
16 I, VII| managed by commissaries. The Venetians, when they directed their
17 II, VII| the Florentines joined the Venetians, and with their assistance
18 II, VII| having conquered him; for the Venetians, like all who enter into
19 IV, I | would be defended by the Venetians, and Genoa would be able
20 IV, III| the Florentines with the Venetians—Origin of the Catasto—The
21 IV, III| sent ambassadors to the Venetians, to beg they would lend
22 IV, III| Florentines themselves. The Venetians were advised to adopt the
23 IV, III| truth being discovered, the Venetians laid aside their suspicion;
24 IV, III| Lombardy to be assigned to the Venetians; those in Romagna and Tuscany
25 IV, III| which the Florentines and Venetians both agreed; the former
26 IV, III| former from jealousy of the Venetians, thinking they had spent
27 IV, III| lost in Romagna; and the Venetians kept Brescia, to which the
28 IV, III| territory and power of the Venetians, and brought poverty and
29 IV, IV | left open to them by the Venetians and the duke, and that as
30 IV, IV | himself to believe that the Venetians, or Filippo, would willingly
31 IV, V | declared his design, the Venetians and the Florentines renewed
32 IV, VII| publicly visited by the Venetians, not as an exile, but with
33 V, I | The Florentines and the Venetians assist the pope—Peace between
34 V, I | injury, sought the aid of the Venetians and Florentines. Both parties
35 V, I | Niccolo da Tolentino for the Venetians and Florentines. They met
36 V, I | which the Florentines and Venetians were routed, and Niccolo
37 V, I | proceeded to Venice, where the Venetians, valuing the friendship
38 V, I | among the citizens, for the Venetians knew there was no other
39 V, I | defensive, with the pope, the Venetians, and the duke of Milan.~
40 V, II | league, the Florentines and Venetians entered into alliance with
41 V, II | to raise the siege.~The Venetians considering the duke to
42 V, II | feared, was engaged with the Venetians, and the Lucchese having
43 V, III| the Florentines and the Venetians— Francesco Sforza, captain
44 V, III| Po in the service of the Venetians and returns to Tuscany—The
45 V, III| Tuscany—The bad faith of the Venetians toward the Florentines—Cosmo
46 V, III| right to suppose that the Venetians will not hastily attack
47 V, III| vigorously to assail the Venetians, so as to compel the Florentines
48 V, III| Lombardy, they requested the Venetians to press him with their
49 V, III| well that the demand of the Venetians arose less from any need
50 V, III| to pass the Po, and the Venetians refused to accept him on
51 V, III| hence it resulted that the Venetians, having commenced the war,
52 V, III| would be averted. To the Venetians, on the other hand, they
53 V, III| either to themselves or the Venetians to publish it without some
54 V, III| proceeded to Reggio, when the Venetians, alarmed at his progress,
55 V, III| would not proceed unless the Venetians fulfilled their engagement
56 V, III| that if abandoned by the Venetians, he would come to terms
57 V, III| alliance. To induce the Venetians to retain the count in the
58 V, III| their forces, they (the Venetians) might return to the sea,
59 V, III| their liberty. To this the Venetians replied, that they were
60 V, IV | church— Niccolo attacks the Venetians—Fears and precautions of
61 V, IV | precautions of the Florentines—The Venetians request assistance of the
62 V, IV | the count to assist the Venetians—Neri di Gino Capponi at
63 V, IV | senate—Extreme joy of the Venetians.~Peace being restored between
64 V, IV | ambition of the duke and the Venetians was obvious, still it was
65 V, IV | neither the duke nor the Venetians were satisfied with their
66 V, IV | could not endure that the Venetians should possess Bergamo and
67 V, IV | Florentines against the Venetians, on account of the affair
68 V, IV | duke to take part with the Venetians. Having taken possession
69 V, IV | The duke, who desired the Venetians to be left defenseless,
70 V, IV | till he had subdued the Venetians, who, being full of pride,
71 V, IV | the duke’s forces, and the Venetians defeated, as if foreseeing
72 V, IV | vehemence than ever; the Venetians constantly suffered fresh
73 V, IV | necessity into which the Venetians must come, they had informed
74 V, IV | supporting the power of the Venetians. Therefore he might perceive,
75 V, IV | might perceive, that if the Venetians were compelled to abandon
76 V, IV | it was best to keep the Venetians powerful by land. These
77 V, IV | concluded in February, 1438; the Venetians agreeing to pay two-thirds
78 V, IV | and wearied out by the Venetians, who with unceasing importunity
79 V, IV | which they determined the Venetians should provide; and as they
80 V, V | Sforza marches to assist the Venetians, and relieves Verona—He
81 V, V | relieve Brescia but fails—The Venetians routed by Piccinino upon
82 V, V | dependencies with hope; for the Venetians, who only an instant before
83 V, V | might relieve Brescia. The Venetians also had galleys upon the
84 V, V | fell into his hands.~The Venetians, alarmed at this loss, and
85 V, V | it greater relief and the Venetians more permanent advantage;
86 V, V | his death, and deprive the Venetians of the change of relieving
87 V, V | they had received from the Venetians could alienate them, nor
88 V, V | persuasions to make it. The Venetians, on the other hand, though
89 V, V | water. This rendered the Venetians dissatisfied; they were
90 V, VI | between the count and the Venetians respecting the management
91 V, VI | but is prevented by the Venetians—Niccolo Piccinino in Tuscany—
92 V, VI | between the count and the Venetians. In order the better to
93 V, VI | having discovered how the Venetians were disposed, should proceed
94 V, VI | them it was agreed that the Venetians should pay the count ninety
95 V, VI | returned to Venice; and the Venetians, having so large an amount
96 V, VI | Malatesti to desert the Venetians and enter the duke’s service.
97 V, VI | Tuscany the reputation of the Venetians had been. On these accounts
98 V, VII| field with his army, and the Venetians having again covered the
99 VI, I | Sforza—Suspicions of the Venetians— They acquire Ravenna—The
100 VI, I | importance either with the Venetians or the Florentines; and
101 VI, I | the Florentines and the Venetians were equally anxious for
102 VI, I | upon that subject.”~The Venetians, who were sometimes needlessly
103 VI, I | unsettled by ambition, and the Venetians’ by jealousy, that little
104 VI, I | themselves under the power of the Venetians; who, in return for the
105 VI, I | count, and alarm to the Venetians, was the desertion of his
106 VI, I | this end he induced the Venetians to recall the forces they
107 VI, I | inevitable to the count and the Venetians.~But fortune, never destitute
108 VI, I | Trono were present for the Venetians, and for the Florentines
109 VI, I | territory, were assigned to the Venetians.~The war in Lombardy was
110 VI, I | Niccolo. He applied to the Venetians and the Florentines for
111 VI, I | them. The Florentines and Venetians hesitated for a time, both
112 VI, I | received assistance of the Venetians and Florentines; so that,
113 VI, II | Offers of the duke and the Venetians to the count—The Venetians
114 VI, II | Venetians to the count—The Venetians furtively deprive the count
115 VI, II | were in a league with the Venetians and Florentines, which had
116 VI, II | and indignant, which the Venetians and the Florentines were
117 VI, II | while the Florentines and Venetians supplied the count with
118 VI, II | Florentines, and Cremona by the Venetians. Thus the war was renewed
119 VI, II | troops. This victory gave the Venetians hope of obtaining the duke’
120 VI, II | fall into the hands of the Venetians. Alfonso promised to send
121 VI, II | increasing greatness of the Venetians, and he himself began to
122 VI, II | need of the count, and the Venetians desired his ruin; for they
123 VI, II | Lombardy. The offers of the Venetians were great, as also were
124 VI, II | the specious offers of the Venetians, for he doubted not, that
125 VI, II | obviated by the ambition of the Venetians, who, seeing a chance of
126 VI, III| restore peace to Italy—The Venetians oppose this design— Alfonso
127 VI, III| besieges Caravaggio—The Venetians endeavor to relieve the
128 VI, III| arrears of pay; he feared the Venetians, who were his armed enemies,
129 VI, III| latter were allies of the Venetians, and he had seized the territories
130 VI, III| against the ambition of the Venetians, they could make use of
131 VI, III| surrendered themselves to the Venetians; Pavia and Parma became
132 VI, III| attack the Florentines and Venetians, and till the arrival of
133 VI, III| of the assembly, but the Venetians refused, indulging great
134 VI, III| themselves under the power of the Venetians. If he refused to accept
135 VI, III| surrendered themselves to the Venetians or to the duke of Savoy;
136 VI, III| have recourse except the Venetians, whose pride and tyranny
137 VI, III| assailed not only by the Venetians but by the Genoese and the
138 VI, III| remaining enemies were the Venetians, who, with a powerful army,
139 VI, III| to come to terms with the Venetians; for the expenses of the
140 VI, III| which greatly distressed the Venetians, since they knew the loss
141 VI, III| military stores; nor had the Venetians ever before suffered such
142 VI, IV | The count’s successes—The Venetians come to terms with him—Views
143 VI, IV | terms with him—Views of the Venetians—Indignation of the Milanese
144 VI, IV | at Venice—League of the Venetians and Milanese—The count dupes
145 VI, IV | Milanese—The count dupes the Venetians and Milanese—He applies
146 VI, IV | two miles of the city. The Venetians, having well-grounded fears
147 VI, IV | horse, by whose aid the Venetians were in a condition to treat
148 VI, IV | agreement, in which the Venetians undertook to pay the count
149 VI, IV | engaged to restore to the Venetians the towns, prisoners, and
150 VI, IV | the Florentines and the Venetians, who, on account of their
151 VI, IV | the Florentines and the Venetians, defied the duke, despised
152 VI, IV | they sought peace with the Venetians, that all the blame of the
153 VI, IV | count of the aid of the Venetians, who they did not think
154 VI, IV | enterprise, he consented that the Venetians should attack Crema, and
155 VI, IV | this arrangement kept the Venetians so long in alliance with
156 VI, IV | they sent envoys to the Venetians to beg they would compassionate
157 VI, IV | dependencies of Milan.~The Venetians had not yet taken Crema,
158 VI, IV | the inhabitants, when the Venetians having taken Crema, thought
159 VI, IV | at the step taken by the Venetians, for he had long foreseen
160 VI, IV | the ambassadors whom the Venetians had sent to inform him of
161 VI, IV | he determined to dupe the Venetians, and not abandon his enterprise;
162 VI, IV | put it off. To give the Venetians greater assurance of his
163 VI, IV | of the Milanese; for the Venetians, confident of peace, were
164 VI, IV | enemy withdrawn, and the Venetians their friends, felt assured
165 VI, IV | only sent assistance to the Venetians after the rout at Caravaggio,
166 VI, IV | themselves entirely to the Venetians, which would occasion the
167 VI, IV | the former league with the Venetians. These reasonings were not
168 VI, IV | become duke of Milan, or the Venetians her lords. And surely under
169 VI, IV | count, would submit to the Venetians; for the count had a stronger
170 VI, IV | party in the city, and the Venetians had not, so that whenever
171 VI, IV | obey the count than the Venetians.~These diverse views kept
172 VI, V | the king of Naples and the Venetians—Venetian and Neapolitan
173 VI, V | ambassador— Preparations of the Venetians and the king of Naples for
174 VI, V | Naples for the war— The Venetians excite disturbances in Bologna—
175 VI, V | the duke of Milan and the Venetians—Ferrando, son of the king
176 VI, V | possession of it in spite of the Venetians, who could bring no relief
177 VI, V | command the Milanese. The Venetians had sent an ambassador to
178 VI, V | between the count and the Venetians; but on the approach of
179 VI, V | advice was approved by the Venetians, both as being safe, and
180 VI, V | proceedings, accused the Venetians, and all the powers of Italy,
181 VI, V | against the power of the Venetians, than the Florentines, who,
182 VI, V | opposed by the Aragonese and Venetians; for the Aragonese princes
183 VI, V | family of France; and the Venetians seeing the ancient enmity
184 VI, V | Florentines, and united the Venetians and King Alfonso against
185 VI, V | the Florentines, and the Venetians against the duke, who, being
186 VI, V | the Florentines and the Venetians still continued, and as
187 VI, V | declared to be injurious to the Venetians, and inconsistent with the
188 VI, V | between the king and the Venetians made the Florentines and
189 VI, V | same time the enmity of the Venetians transpired by a treaty with
190 VI, V | shadow of an excuse. The Venetians attempted to take Bologna,
191 VI, V | being composed, although the Venetians used every possible means
192 VI, V | were unable to resist. The Venetians and the king (as was then
193 VI, V | completed; and thus the Venetians learned, that however little
194 VI, V | 1452, having arrived, the Venetians thought it not desirable
195 VI, V | or the entreaties of the Venetians, did the same on the side
196 VI, V | and greatly harassed the Venetians; while both parties alike
197 VI, V | whole force against the Venetians and invade their territory.~
198 VI, VI | being in alliance with the Venetians, would not allow him to
199 VI, VI | forces, they attacked the Venetians with so much impetuosity,
200 VI, VI | Brescian territory; so that the Venetians, unable to keep the field,
201 VI, VI | spring, and stripping the Venetians of the remainder of their
202 VI, VI | duke desirous of peace. The Venetians, Alfonso, and the Florentines,
203 VI, VI | Christians, more especially the Venetians and the pope, who already
204 VI, VI | compensation from him. The Venetians thought themselves entitled
205 VI, VI | at Rome, the duke and the Venetians came to an arrangement on
206 VI, VI | this, the Florentines, the Venetians, and the duke concluded
207 VI, VI | the mercenary troops. The Venetians, as usual on the conclusion
208 VII, I | or territory. Of this the Venetians afford a sufficient proof,
209 VII, I | of a young one.” To the Venetians ambassadors, who came to
210 VII, II | should be assembled, and the Venetians engaged to send ships thither
211 VII, II | made their appearance. The Venetians sent a captain with some
212 VII, II | with the duke; that the Venetians, while they were united,
213 VII, III| Florentine exiles—They induce the Venetians to make war on Florence.~
214 VII, III| to their country, if the Venetians were to undertake the enterprise,
215 VII, III| wicked; and would remind the Venetians, that it was the family
216 VII, IV | CHAPTER IV~War between the Venetians and the Florentines—Peace
217 VII, IV | small pension allowed by the Venetians, he grew old and died. He
218 VII, V | either of the duke or the Venetians, having no assurance of
219 VII, VI | having been poisoned by the Venetians, who found they would have
220 VII, VI | Florentines, the duke, and the Venetians having renewed their league,
221 VII, VI | Ferrando laid claim, and the Venetians occupied. Thus the pope
222 VII, VI | the Florentines and the Venetians remained united. The Florentines
223 VII, VI | them at enmity with the Venetians, not so much for the sake
224 VII, VI | to mature age, was by the Venetians, out of respect for the
225 VII, VI | of Perugia. To this the Venetians willingly consented, for
226 VII, VI | his engagement under the Venetians; but the Siennese, although
227 VIII, I | side; on the other, the Venetians, the duke, and the Florentines.
228 VIII, III| against the Florentines—The Venetians refuse to assist the Florentines—
229 VIII, III| the duke of Milan and the Venetians, they applied to both for
230 VIII, III| duke sent them aid, the Venetians denied all obligation to
231 VIII, III| in order to induce the Venetians to take a more correct view
232 VIII, III| earnestly requested the Venetians to send them Count Carlo,
233 VIII, IV | the king—The pope and the Venetians consent to the peace—The
234 VIII, IV | once concluded, that as the Venetians were lukewarm and unfaithful,
235 VIII, IV | had no confidence in the Venetians, and on account of its changeable
236 VIII, IV | known, the pope and the Venetians were transported with rage;
237 VIII, IV | neglected by the king; the Venetians entertained similar ideas
238 VIII, IV | enmity with the pope and the Venetians. This suspicion was entertained
239 VIII, IV | pope, the king, and the Venetians other matters to think of
240 VIII, V | marquis of Ferrara, and the Venetians—The king of Naples and the
241 VIII, V | papal forces—Progress of the Venetians against the marquis of Ferrara—
242 VIII, V | into a league against the Venetians—Operations of the League
243 VIII, V | of the League against the Venetians—The Venetians routed at
244 VIII, V | against the Venetians—The Venetians routed at Bondeno— Their
245 VIII, V | Sforza makes peace with the Venetians—Ratified by the other parties.~
246 VIII, V | anger of the pope and the Venetians at the peace between the
247 VIII, V | restrained the pope and the Venetians being thus removed, everyone
248 VIII, V | league of the pope and the Venetians, and with them the Genoese,
249 VIII, V | Bolognese and many princes. The Venetians wished to become lords of
250 VIII, V | obligation to take salt from the Venetians, or to admit their governor;
251 VIII, V | from both impositions. The Venetians replied, that so long as
252 VIII, V | refusing his consent, the Venetians considered themselves justified
253 VIII, V | there, was sent for by the Venetians, and placed at the head
254 VIII, V | pope, and know whether the Venetians made war against Ferrara
255 VIII, V | prevent him from helping the Venetians, who had already taken the
256 VIII, V | Rome and in Romagna, the Venetians took possession of Figaruolo
257 VIII, V | situated, while those of the Venetians gave them increasing hopes
258 VIII, V | the aggrandizement of the Venetians would be the ruin of the
259 VIII, V | with an opening for the Venetians to join them if they thought
260 VIII, V | the pope intimated to the Venetians, that they must desist from
261 VIII, V | desired Lodovico to attack the Venetians on the side of Milan, but
262 VIII, V | they went in pursuit of the Venetians, whose force amounted to
263 VIII, V | purveyor of the fleet. The Venetians, finding all Italy united
264 VIII, V | unfavorable to the designs of the Venetians; for Lodovico was now desirous
265 VIII, V | and, in defiance of the Venetians, plundered the whole country;
266 VIII, V | easily have deprived the Venetians of all they possessed in
267 VIII, V | Lodovico being known to the Venetians, they thought they could
268 VIII, V | the places won from the Venetians were to be restored; that
269 VIII, VI | had made peace with the Venetians, after the great war, many
270 VIII, VII| of Milan—War between the Venetians and the Dutch—Osimo revolts
271 VIII, VII| Dutch made war upon the Venetians, and Boccolino of Osimo,
272 VIII, VII| to be put to death. The Venetians were routed by the Dutch,
273 VIII, VII| After this defeat, the Venetians, with their usual good fortune,
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