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1 Int | Medici were returned to power. Machiavelli attempted to
2 Int | the consolidation of his power in the Romagna. The principles
3 I, I | being wholly reduced to his power, they no longer selected
4 I, I | which diminished his own power, and increased that of the
5 I, I | might, with her change of power, also change her title,
6 I, II | army. By this victory, the power of the Goths in Italy was
7 I, II | people, sickened of royal power, did not create another
8 I, III | Lombards, increased their own power; but upon the ruin of the
9 I, III | began to dignify their own power with a title, by calling
10 I, III | acquiring greater temporal power, and the new authorities
11 I, IV | and Henry, who hated the power of the pontiffs, gave Alexander
12 I, IV | of Egypt, fell under the power of the Christians. To commemorate
13 I, IV | the only obstacle to the power of the Mohammedans. The
14 I, IV | subjects should have the power of appealing to Rome when
15 I, IV | pope, being afraid of his power, would not crown him, and
16 I, V | pope, unable to endure his power, withdrew to Viterbo, and
17 I, V | any event to diminish the power of Charles, induced the
18 I, V | other in Tuscany, whose power would defend the church
19 I, V | degrees to lose their military power. Besides what is just related,
20 I, VI | whose influence, and the power of the Visconti, he designed
21 I, VI | both on account of its power and internal regulations,
22 I, VI | such an opinion of their power, that they were a terror,
23 I, VI | still possessing neither power nor reputation, like all
24 I, VII | how he might diminish the power of Ladislaus, he caused
25 I, VII | now possessed of greater power, he began to think of warring
26 II, I | obedience to the ruling power, and anxious only to preserve
27 II, I | greater stability to his power in Tuscany, favored the
28 II, II | of Naples—Florence in the power of the king of Naples—Project
29 II, II | for the defense of their power—Establishment of trades’
30 II, II | endeavors to abate the power of Charles king of Naples.~
31 II, II | possible to imagine the power and authority Florence in
32 II, II | haughty bearing while in power, during the time of Frederick,
33 II, II | Naples, and reduced the power of the church. They, therefore,
34 II, II | order to preserve their power in Tuscany, it would be
35 II, II | means of preserving their power.~The Lucchese being threatened
36 II, II | tyranny when they were in power; the result was, that the
37 II, II | Ghibellines hope of recovering power, and the Guelphs, considering
38 II, II | men who, as the supreme power, were to hold their magistracy
39 II, II | be jealous of those whose power in Italy had become great,
40 II, III | deprive the Ghibellines of power, and restrain the nobility,
41 II, III | as the destroyer of their power, while the opulent among
42 II, III | nobility that their loss of power, and the laws which were
43 II, III | laws, it should be in the power of everyone to drive them
44 II, IV | apprehending the loss of their power, and the Bianchi from finding
45 II, IV | which increased the popular power and reduced that of the
46 II, V | forward prevents us of the power, or makes us act before
47 II, V | sentence against him, the power of the Signory, and the
48 II, V | continued to increase his power; and either by force or
49 II, V | gave him the most unlimited power of the citizens. This man
50 II, V | their adversaries being in power they could not discover
51 II, VI | to abate the increasing power of Castruccio, and afterward
52 II, VI | possessed of sufficient power, assumed the authority to
53 II, VII | to take what is in their power than desirous of that which
54 II, VII | increasing or preserving their power; the one, so to restrain
55 II, VII | the tyranny of those in power. Their plan was, that each
56 II, VII | every slight occasion, for power put into the hands of an
57 II, VII | taken arms. To lessen their power, they bought of the Bardi
58 II, VII | utmost assistance in their power. To their influence and
59 II, VIII| fall into disuse, while the power of the duke became great,
60 II, VIII| better plan, knowing the power of which the duke was possessed,
61 II, VIII| those who hear it? It has a power which nothing can subdue,
62 II, VIII| Pisans, although raised to power in order that he might carry
63 II, VIII| the people had lost the power they possessed, and the
64 II, VIII| enemies and increased his power. It was the custom of the
65 II, I | former from having lost their power in the state. This circumstance
66 II, I | plundered, than submit to the power of their enemies. They defended
67 II, I | for the recovery of their power, but soon became humbled
68 III, I | from the acquisition of power, made by the people of Rome,
69 III, I | Florence are deprived of the power to hold offices are called
70 III, I | tempered for a time the power of the Capitani, so that
71 III, I | misapplication, have lost the power to correct. Hence arises
72 III, I | make you diffident of your power to repress the disorders
73 III, II | mischief, gave a general power, which in Florence is called
74 III, III | twenty-one, and attained so much power, that in a few years they
75 III, III | that all who attain great power and riches, make use of
76 III, III | were subdued by the civil power.~While they were arranging
77 III, IV | those of their friends. The power of the plebeians was thus
78 III, IV | and the city is in your power; what do you think ought
79 III, V | republic was rescued from the power of the lowest plebeians,
80 III, V | apprehensive that by the power these men possessed with
81 III, V | rescue the city from the power of the plebeians, who for
82 III, VI | the party that was now in power. His good offices evidently
83 III, VI | that before resigning their power, many other persons should
84 III, VII | for, to the utmost of his power, their authority should
85 III, VII | admonished, when it was in their power to restore the banished
86 III, VII | afterward, recovering his power, he renewed the war, which
87 IV, I | that by long continuance in power they became insolent; the
88 IV, I | uninterrupted possession of power, destroyed that vigilance
89 IV, I | the consent of those in power. This circumstance gave
90 IV, I | whether envious of those in power, or fearing a rupture with
91 IV, I | provide all the means in their power for rescuing Furli from
92 IV, II | to aggrandize their own power, which God has very justly
93 IV, II | of the means within their power, they would not be sensible
94 IV, II | had again fallen under the power of the plebeians, from whom
95 IV, II | government which was in power from 1378 to 1381, and that
96 IV, II | your aid he has wrested the power from the people, will, with
97 IV, III | extended the territory and power of the Venetians, and brought
98 IV, IV | withdraw their country from the power of the Florentines, and
99 IV, IV | necessity fall into their power. But he saw that his discourse
100 IV, V | and himself were in their power; he only begged that as
101 IV, V | he might bring a greater power against the Florentines,
102 IV, VI | the establishment of his power; the former by his boldness,
103 IV, VI | nor have we sufficient power to make them to be so esteemed;
104 IV, VI | no citizen may ever, in power and authority, surpass the
105 IV, VI | Rinaldo, anxious to abate the power of Cosmo, and knowing that
106 IV, VI | unjustly, to restrain the power of the Guelphs, to whom,
107 IV, VI | for when he was under the power of the Signory, his riches
108 IV, VII | Cosmo, they endowed with the power of a Balia, the Eight of
109 V, I | were not inferior to any in power and authority; for being
110 V, I | Romagna, unable with his own power to keep possession of Bologna,
111 V, I | magistrates possessing the power of life and death should
112 V, II | being jealous of the duke’s power, thought it would give him
113 V, II | those who had it in their power to open a passage for his
114 V, II | himself (Alfonso), but the power and authority with Filippo;
115 V, II | or that he alone has the power of determining matters of
116 V, II | you may have observed the power of that people and their
117 V, II | entirely the reverse; for what power can be expected in a city
118 V, III | at it? for were it in our power, we should do just the same
119 V, III | will not willingly see the power of Florence increased. On
120 V, IV | done to resist Filippo’s power, which was now greater than
121 V, IV | done without supporting the power of the Venetians. Therefore
122 V, IV | account; for every increase of power and territory augments that
123 V, V | property to the utmost of their power during such a state of military
124 V, V | Hence he acquired so much power over the pontiff, and the
125 V, VI | deprived the government of all power to compel the citizens to
126 V, VII | my own position and the power of the Florentines, I should
127 V, VII | as you possess both the power and the inclination to command
128 V, VII | himself they feared, but his power while lord of the Casentino.
129 VI, I | placed themselves under the power of the Venetians; who, in
130 VI, I | labors; for it was in his power to make him master of Lombardy,
131 VI, I | place all his enemies in his power; and, as a certain victory
132 VI, I | therefore to the utmost of his power he opposed this resolution;
133 VI, I | he had the victory in his power, he resolved during the
134 VI, I | Castelnuova, was in his power. Leaving a strong guard
135 VI, II | served to weaken Neri’s power, and made him lose both
136 VI, II | since their acquisition of power, and the authority of the
137 VI, II | and put Bologna into his power. This being agreed upon,
138 VI, III | could make use of no other power but his. Therefore, he proceeded
139 VI, III | could strip Milan of her power; and then so press her,
140 VI, III | them all the injury in his power, hired forces, created a
141 VI, III | alleging in excuse, the enemy’s power and their inability to resist.
142 VI, III | remained in the enemy’s power; who, on his part, though
143 VI, III | not subject them to the power of Milan. The count desired
144 VI, III | throw themselves under the power of the Venetians. If he
145 VI, III | and friend, than a hostile power such as either of the others,
146 VI, IV | the best defense in their power. They then collected the
147 VI, IV | and as it was in their power to make peace with either
148 VI, IV | place themselves in the power of any one rather than in
149 VI, V | to defend him against the power of the Venetians, than the
150 VI, V | the occasion of their own power. The emperor, however, refused
151 VI, VII | knowledge of himself and of his power.~To return to our history.
152 VII, I | citizens acquire reputation and power in two ways; the one public,
153 VII, I | for in them popularity and power were united. But in the
154 VII, I | became anxious to abate his power. This inconsistency was
155 VII, I | in 1456; so that those in power were openly advised in the
156 VII, I | councils not to renew the power of the balia, but to close
157 VII, I | were not depriving him of power, but rather themselves.
158 VII, I | them and himself from the power of the plebeians, and restore
159 VII, I | averse. Having recovered power, created a new balia, and
160 VII, I | Florence, and war increased his power and reputation abroad. He
161 VII, I | resolved to enjoy in peace, the power he had acquired by war,
162 VII, II | which still remained in the power of the French) to the duke
163 VII, II | they might so confirm their power as to secure to themselves
164 VII, II | prosperity and newly acquired power of the Sforzeschi had occasioned
165 VII, II | had the victory in their power; for the greater part of
166 VII, II | although all agreed that the power of the Medici ought to be
167 VII, II | in a short time Piero’s power would be visibly diminished,
168 VII, III | to enter upon office or power exciting inordinate expectations;
169 VII, III | attempt all the means in his power. On this they went to the
170 VII, IV | more. They exercised their power so inconsiderately, and
171 VII, IV | with apprehension of the power of the Turks, who continued
172 VII, IV | found easier to maintain a power which by its continuance
173 VII, V | was apprehensive of the power of the king; nor could he
174 VII, VI | to do everything in their power to put a stop to them, and
175 VIII, I | those who envied their power were able to oppose them
176 VIII, I | attains to a greater degree of power, and very often has his
177 VIII, I | individuals so much wealth and power. In consequence, neither
178 VIII, I | flushed with youth and power, would assume the direction
179 VIII, I | to contribute all in his power to the success of their
180 VIII, II | gratify their desire for power (as would seem to be the
181 VIII, II | possess. Certainly usurped power deserves to be detested;
182 VIII, IV | unfaithful, and the duke in the power of his guardians, and involved
183 VIII, IV | sustained by his spiritual power and influence. Having therefore
184 VIII, IV | who, to the utmost of his power, endeavored to diminish
185 VIII, IV | head of the republic in the power of the king, themselves
186 VIII, IV | effecting his destruction, the power of his enemies invested
187 VIII, IV | had previously been at his power. He consequently treated
188 VIII, VII | inhabitants. To enjoy his power in security and repose,
189 VIII, VII | Faenza wholly in his own power; all which greatly contributed
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