Book, Chapter
1 I, I | many brave and virtuous men, showed no less folly in
2 I, II | Symmachus and Boethius, men of great holiness, every
3 I, II | lakes, rivers, seas, and men; for France, Spain, and
4 I, II | discords were created among men. And if the Christians had
5 I, II | persecutions, the countenances of men bore witness of the terrible
6 I, III | COULD NOT BE JUDGED BY MEN. The pope and the people
7 I, IV | those days upon the minds of men, excited by the example
8 I, VI | who were the most powerful men in the city. The king of
9 I, VI | and was itself filled with men of every nation.~For many
10 I, VII | being wholly in the hands of men brought up to trade, they
11 I, VII | the lesser princes, or of men who possessed no state;
12 I, VII | would have covered these men with disgrace, whom, with
13 II, I | settlement of new places, where men are drawn together for mutual
14 II, I | would greatly increase; for men never endure inconveniences
15 II, I | cause of alarm is removed, men gladly resort to more convenient
16 II, I | these families possessed men and means of defense, they
17 II, I | Frederick, the most unbiased men, and those who had the greatest
18 II, II | with great pomp to the new men, and new leaders were appointed
19 II, II | virtue then existing among men, and with so much generosity
20 II, II | unfurled, and many armed men drawn to them. These, learning
21 II, II | city, and elected twelve men who, as the supreme power,
22 II, II | but Buono Uomini or “good men.” They also formed a council
23 II, III | and place a thousand armed men at his disposal divided
24 II, III | twenty companies of fifty men each, and that he, with
25 II, III | and have four thousand men at his command. They deprived
26 II, III | injudicious step to drive men to desperation, for he who
27 II, III | each fortified itself with men and places of strength.
28 II, III | those times: filled with men of great wealth and reputation;
29 II, III | within her walls 30,000 men capable of bearing arms,
30 II, IV | attended with the death of many men and the destruction of much
31 II, IV | Priors and all well-disposed men were in hourly apprehension
32 II, IV | his coming.~The minds of men being in great excitement,
33 II, V | opinion to the most powerful men in the city; and whatever
34 II, V | one of the most powerful men in Tuscany.~When this marriage
35 II, V | among the most distinguished men our city has produced. True
36 II, V | king’s brother and 2,000 men were slain; but the body
37 II, VI | called Buonomini, or good men, without whose advice and
38 II, VI | addition of four thousand men. This great force being
39 II, VI | by force; and sent eight men as ambassadors to the Signory,
40 II, VII | for 30,000 florins. And as men are often less anxious to
41 II, VII | supported by a few powerful men, should without cause injure
42 II, VII | house a number of armed men, and on the morning after
43 II, VIII| sweets of liberty, or make men lose the desire of their
44 II, VIII| indescribable sorrow of good men, though to the satisfaction
45 II, VIII| the most trustworthy of men; so that in a short time
46 II, VIII| their dress and manners; for men and women, without regard
47 II, VIII| regulation set at naught; for men unaccustomed to royal pomp
48 II, VIII| rise at once and die like men, with arms in their hands,
49 II, VIII| Sienna, with six ambassadors, men of high consideration in
50 II, VIII| forced to comply. The rage of men is certainly always found
51 II, VIII| He desired the service of men, not the cultivation of
52 II, I | twelve Buonuomini, or good men, created eight counsellors,
53 II, I | to be good and moderate men; but, not succeeding in
54 II, I | drew together about 4,000 men, with whom he proceeded
55 II, I | defended by the most resolute men; so that the people were
56 II, I | defended themselves like brave men, they could not resist the
57 III, I | administered affairs, not as free men do, but as a factious populace;
58 III, I | secure. On this account bad men are received with the approbation
59 III, I | affliction to all good men, and the advancement of
60 III, I | influence of parties; bad men follow them through ambition
61 III, I | established for the benefit of men in a state of freedom, but
62 III, I | found repose, but seem like men who can neither agree to
63 III, I | majesty, one of the vilest of men born at Agobbio.~“For the
64 III, I | and what false impressions men imbibe, even in regard to
65 III, I | usual practice of ambitious men, are endeavoring to render
66 III, I | disorders to the nature of the men, but to the times, which,
67 III, I | usually found that most men are better adapted to pursue
68 III, II | courtyards were filled with armed men, and the Colleagues granted
69 III, II | by vast numbers of armed men, occupied the courts. Upon
70 III, III | thought them to be peaceable men and lovers of order. Still
71 III, III | would be settled.~But since men are not satisfied with recovering
72 III, III | occasion to evil designing men to ruin your country and
73 III, III | themselves above us; for all men having had one common origin,
74 III, III | it be so, you are not the men I took you for; because
75 III, III | conscience; for when, like us, men have to fear hunger, and
76 III, III | always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do
77 III, III | by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and
78 III, III | occupied by above a thousand men. This soon became known
79 III, IV | the piazza above eighty men in arms friendly to the
80 III, IV | followed by crowds of armed men, proceeded to Santa Maria
81 III, V | piazza being full of armed men, a tumultuous cry arose
82 III, V | report that several bodies of men were being assembled by
83 III, V | augmented it; so that most men lived in the utmost discontent.
84 III, V | that by the power these men possessed with the plebeians
85 III, V | evident that not only to good men, but even to the seditious,
86 III, V | with a multitude of armed men, set the informer at liberty
87 III, V | he should serve upright men who would take arms for
88 III, VI | sufficient body of armed men, and then took such measures,
89 III, VII | Donato Acciajuoli, both men of the popular class, and
90 III, VII | so excited the minds of men to vengeance, that all they
91 III, VII | lowest order, all bold young men, and resolved upon returning
92 III, VII | them, they exhorted the men to take arms and deliver
93 III, VII | stared at each other like men stupefied, and would wait
94 III, VII | sufficient body of armed men to secure them. The gates
95 IV, I | frequently deprived both of men and money; and if any of
96 IV, I | become one of the richest men, and being of a humane and
97 IV, I | do if assailed; and that men always defend themselves
98 IV, II | we should only encourage men in error which would bring
99 IV, II | vigilance had encouraged men to censure public actions,
100 IV, II | had become filled with low men. He therefore concluded,
101 IV, II | how to avail themselves of men according to the times;
102 IV, II | into exile by the very same men.” He therefore advised Rinaldo
103 IV, III | offensive. But as it is found men are never satisfied, but
104 IV, IV | different times, in the same men and the same city, upon
105 IV, IV | before whom the principal men of the city discussed the
106 IV, IV | the valley, assembled the men in the principal church,
107 IV, V | commissary with a few of his men escaping to Pisa. This defeat
108 IV, VI | one of the most prudent of men; of grave and courteous
109 IV, VI | the management, as being men of greater influence in
110 IV, VI | disapproves, or condemns men for being pious, liberal,
111 IV, VI | a great number of armed men, and accompanied by nearly
112 IV, VII | a great number of armed men, and was soon joined by
113 IV, VII | assembled a large number of men, kept in their houses; and
114 IV, VII | Florence was deprived of men of worth, and of much wealth
115 IV, VII | been less painful to good men to hear of the misfortunes
116 V, I | good fortune. Hence, wise men have observed, that the
117 V, I | sink to ruin, from which, men’s sufferings having made
118 V, I | considered wars in which no men are slain, cities plundered,
119 V, II | contrary are the views of men, that he took a directly
120 V, II | palace, where two thousand men were in arms, and at his
121 V, II | children. Nor are the arms that men use against their country
122 V, II | former occasions; for though men willingly contribute according
123 V, III | him, for the ambition of men is boundless, and if he
124 V, III | show that since God and men were averse to the Lucchese
125 V, V | and with a body of picked men took the way thither, attacked
126 V, V | Mantua and a chosen body of men, went to meet him, and coming
127 V, V | impossible. With a body of picked men, and accompanied by the
128 V, V | were not completed; his men were dispersed in quest
129 V, V | of great numbers of his men. He himself, with the marquis
130 V, VI | bridge, gave a signal to his men, who immediately raised
131 V, VI | Bartolomeo Orlandini rendered the men cowardly and the fortress
132 V, VII | he enlisted two thousand men, who, trusting the general’
133 V, VII | the enemy’s arrival, the men were mounted and prepared
134 V, VII | up, with a picked body of men, attacked him so vigorously,
135 V, VII | expected great results from men who were capable of doing
136 VI, I | Florentines for assistance, in men and money, assuring them
137 VI, II | the palace several young men, all armed; and Baldaccio,
138 VI, II | family alliances; but among men who have the same objects
139 VI, II | attacked Annibale with his men, and slew him: and then,
140 VI, II | with money, though not with men. Nor was Filippo satisfied
141 VI, II | mercy, to which no prudent men would ever submit if he
142 VI, III | amounting to fifteen thousand men, within three miles of Campiglia,
143 VI, III | provisions, so that two hundred men of a foraging party, principally
144 VI, III | fear or shame; for great men consider failure disgraceful,—
145 VI, IV | their own conceit, powerful men, these arguments have no
146 VI, V | excites it to action. Two men in humble life, talking
147 VI, VI | Jerusalem, with a strong body of men to the Val di Bagno, to
148 VI, VI | offered him assistance in men and money. While the war
149 VI, VI | lost a great number of his men.~Upon the establishment
150 VI, VII | with money, counsel, or men. But the eagerness for this
151 VI, VII | suffice to recall the minds of men to a knowledge of himself
152 VI, VII | Pietrino with money and men, trusting to drive John
153 VII, I | and the most influential men in the state; for, not fearing
154 VII, I | reduced to an equality with men whom they had been accustomed
155 VII, I | friend and patron of learned men. He brought Argiripolo,
156 VII, II | promised assistance either in men or money; while Matthias,
157 VII, II | accompanied by several armed men, took her away from Agnolo’
158 VII, II | well to endeavor to engage men’s minds with some new occupation,
159 VII, II | best, while the minds of men were yet excited against
160 VII, III | called upon them as free men to assist them against tyrants;
161 VII, IV | to admonish the leading men, and beg they would conduct
162 VII, IV | presented, one performed by men on horseback, who went through
163 VII, IV | is binding upon all good men, I promise you, that if
164 VII, IV | in the minds of thinking men, though each gave hopes
165 VII, IV | reputation of their house; for men never regret their continuance
166 VII, IV | produces great results, and men more readily prosecute what
167 VII, V | so much more easily are men predisposed to evil than
168 VII, VI | that the most celebrated men had been produced in republics,
169 VII, VI | advantage from virtuous men, while the latter naturally
170 VII, VI | injuries increased the young men’s desire for vengeance,
171 VII, VI | Francesco Lucani, all leading men in the government, to be
172 VII, VI | these unfortunate young men was conducted with secrecy
173 VIII, I | readiness with which the young men might be slain, on account
174 VIII, I | Franzeni, two bold young men, under great obligations
175 VIII, I | Stefano, the priest, two men, who, from nature and habit,
176 VIII, I | Signory, after the young men’s death, should voluntarily,
177 VIII, II | appointed a number of armed men, as a guard for the security
178 VIII, III | to send a large body of men for its defense. To reduce
179 VIII, III | marquis of Ferrara and his men to return home.~
180 VIII, V | two thousand two hundred men at arms, and six thousand
181 VIII, V | joined them with two hundred men at arms: and having suffered
182 VIII, VI | they immediately provided men and money to undertake its
183 VIII, VII | several other principal men, made prisoners. The Serezanesi
184 VIII, VII | government of the place, the men of Val di Lamona, who had
185 VIII, VII | and a patron of literary men, of which Agnolo da Montepulciano,
186 VIII, VII | by the most distinguished men in Italy. For Mariano da
187 VIII, VII | facetious and satirical men, and amused with the games
|