Book, Chapter
1 I, II | present an opportunity, by means of Rosamond and her wealth,
2 I, III | that the Romans, by his means, entered into league with
3 I, III | acquired them; and, by these means, she constantly extended
4 I, III | fortress upon Mount Gargano, by means of which they governed Puglia
5 I, VI | favored him, thinking by this means to prevent the return of
6 I, VI | were compelled to seek the means of subsistence elsewhere;
7 I, VI | possession of them. By this means Galeotto Malatesti and his
8 I, VI | pope, as the most effectual means of repressing him, drew
9 I, VII | lord of Padua, by whose means he recovered the state of
10 I, VII | those times, and by what means, through the labours of
11 II, I | into disuse, was that by means of which towns and cities
12 II, I | praise. In ancient times, by means of colonies, new cities
13 II, I | families possessed men and means of defense, they contended
14 II, II | desirable to provide their means of defense before the new
15 II, II | destroy Florence, as the only means of compelling the Guelphs
16 II, II | rest to think of some other means of preserving their power.~
17 II, II | feared made them seek the means of destroying him. This
18 II, IV | he would consider some means for her relief. The pontiff
19 II, IV | Florence; thinking by this means to overcome the Bianchi.
20 II, IV | height, that, after civil means, they had recourse to arms.
21 II, IV | attempting by any other means to punish the movers of
22 II, V | popular favor (which by this means may easily be done), a report
23 II, V | della Faggiuola, having by means of the Ghibelline party
24 II, V | against the king. By these means messengers were sent to
25 II, VI | afterward to unite their means for mutual defense against
26 II, VI | to the Capitano. By this means, Amerigo Donati, Teghiajo,
27 II, VII | Italy. The anti-pope, by means of the Pisans, became a
28 II, VII | that the conspiracy by one means or another becomes known.
29 II, VII | reason that it is by no means well to assemble them in
30 II, VII | it by such a tumultuous means, and thus hazard the safety
31 II, VII | enemies; for there was no means of prevailing against those
32 II, VII | the principality by their means. They, therefore, took several
33 II, VII | with debts, and without means of their own, wished for
34 II, VIII| effect by extraordinary means the design from which we
35 II, VIII| attempt the cure by the means which had caused it. He
36 III, I | Florence. Uguccione by this means hoped to deprive the Albizzi
37 III, I | they are adopted only as a means of deception, and he is
38 III, II | and them not only of the means of assisting him with their
39 III, II | hall to consult upon the means of defending themselves
40 III, III | for this property is the means by which we furnish occupation
41 III, III | you take it from us, our means of finding that occupation
42 III, III | you. Conquerors, by what means soever, are never considered
43 III, III | settled arrangement. By this means we shall either obtain the
44 III, IV | descend and consider new means for advancing their well-being
45 III, IV | determined by extraordinary means to punish such extraordinary
46 III, V | restraint, were continually, by means of some prince or republic,
47 III, VI | either for ambition or as a means for their own safety, did
48 III, VII | in vain tried all other means he could think of, excited
49 IV, I | to exalt some person, by means of whom he might be humbled.~
50 IV, I | new troubles, consider the means to be adopted for their
51 IV, I | ten should provide all the means in their power for rescuing
52 IV, II | and made good use of the means within their power, they
53 IV, II | concluded, that the only means of remedying the evil was
54 IV, III | found that the duke, by means of a servant of Carmignuola,
55 IV, III | equalized according to the means of each citizen, it was
56 IV, III | favor of it, and by his means it was passed. In order
57 IV, III | hope that this will be the means of uniting the citizens,
58 IV, III | was at length restored by means of a legate of the pope.
59 IV, VI | to show that there was no means of attaining the blessing
60 IV, VII | might be, himself and his means were entirely at the service
61 IV, VII | plebeians. That by this means they would become the more
62 IV, VII | he knew not what other means could be made use of to
63 IV, VII | balloting purses, and by means of a new Squittini, provide
64 IV, VII | join them, who advised that means should be used to induce
65 IV, VII | negotiate an arrangement by means of the pope; but at the
66 V, I | Rome. Provinces by this means sink to ruin, from which,
67 V, I | his loss or by some unfair means, he died in a few days.~
68 V, I | dissensions in Florence, and by means of bloodshed make greater
69 V, II | Genoese—The Genoese, by means of Francesco Spinola, expel
70 V, II | office being contested by means inadmissible in well-regulated
71 V, II | scarcely to consider the means of escape. Arismeno, with
72 V, II | contribute according to their means, when they see their own
73 V, III | its capture would be by no means an easy undertaking. The
74 V, III | Po, thought that by this means he might also save the Lucchese,
75 V, V | the places which by its means might relieve Brescia. The
76 V, V | his land forces, by which means he hoped to obtain without
77 V, V | arrangements made by his means were not only disregarded,
78 V, VI | anxious, fortune disclosed the means of securing themselves against
79 V, VI | coming to an engagement, by means of which, if victorious,
80 V, VII | weapons, or any honorable means, but, having fallen from
81 VI, I | compelled to draw the necessary means from their subjects’ purses,
82 VI, I | fortune, never destitute of means to assist her favorites,
83 VI, II | preserve their influence, some means must be adopted to increase
84 VI, II | and many others. By these means they strengthened their
85 VI, II | former, Battista, who, as a means of confirming their mutual
86 VI, II | from him except by this means; yet while Filippo sought
87 VI, IV | attain this he saw no better means than to refrain from aiding
88 VI, V | their own misery, and the means that might be adopted for
89 VI, V | obligations, and through his means they became friends with
90 VI, V | Venetians used every possible means to prevent it, and entreated
91 VI, VI | undertaking, and, by such means as were available, more
92 VI, VI | persuaded, principally by means of the pontiff, and with
93 VI, VII | merits; for it was by their means the latter had become prince
94 VI, VII | his troubles, and the sole means of procuring his safety:
95 VI, VII | hoping to recover Genoa by means of the castelletto, upon
96 VI, VII | but he did not take proper means to secure it. The Florentines
97 VII, I | become powerful by dissimilar means—Reform in the election of
98 VII, I | both of public and private means, had many partisans as well
99 VII, I | to the most extraordinary means; for not only citizens and
100 VII, II | said there was no other means of remedying these disorders
101 VII, II | were given concerning the means by which it should be effected;
102 VII, III | new Squittini, by which means the election purses might
103 VII, III | began to consider various means of recovering that citizenship
104 VII, III | they used every available means to injure the commercial
105 VII, III | success of the attempt all the means in his power. On this they
106 VII, III | made the Almighty himself a means of oppression to several,
107 VII, IV | determined to attempt some means of rekindling the war; for
108 VII, IV | princes of Italy, by his means? Diotisalvi considered the
109 VII, V | employment, wasted their time and means on gaming and women; their
110 VII, V | in order to obtain the means of working and securing
111 VII, VI | be plundered, and by this means gain over the populace and
112 VIII, I | secrecy, and by clandestine means; which plots rarely succeed
113 VIII, I | affronts, began to devise some means of vengeance. The first
114 VIII, I | pontiff, who offered every means at his disposal in favor
115 VIII, I | They then discussed the means of carrying it into effect.
116 VIII, I | Montughi, near Florence. By his means it was also intended to
117 VIII, II | wore a cuirass or other means of defense. Giuliano and
118 VIII, III | done by every available means; but that secular princes
119 VIII, III | to their assistance. By means of Prospero Adorno, the
120 VIII, IV | likely to favor him. By such means as these the opinion gained
121 VIII, V | assemble at Basle; and by means of the imperial ambassadors,
122 VIII, V | his mother; hoping by this means to give a new aspect to
123 VIII, VI | and by pontoons and other means approached the new tower,
124 VIII, VI | of the church, and by no means formidable to her enemies,
125 VIII, VII | children, she said she had the means of getting more. Finding
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