Book,  Chapter

 1     II,  II |       people according to their arts or trades, and over each
 2     II,  II |         city required it. These arts were at first twelve, seven
 3     II,  II |       and five minor. The minor arts were afterward increased
 4     II,  II |     suddenly the banners of the Arts were unfurled, and many
 5     II,  III|        and the companies of the Arts, since magistrates had been
 6     II,  III|        evil, the leaders of the Arts’ companies ordered that
 7     II,  III|    enabled the companies of the Arts to establish this law with
 8     II,  III|     encouraged the heads of the Arts to reform the constitution
 9     II,  V  |         by the companies of the Arts; the heads of which were
10    III,  II |      hand. The companies of the Arts met, and each appointed
11    III,  II |        On the following day the Arts brought forth their banners,
12    III,  II |         soon the ensigns of the Arts, surrounded by vast numbers
13    III,  II |        the Council, to give the Arts and the people hope of redress,
14    III,  II |       and to the Syndics of the Arts, to reform the government
15    III,  II |       few of the ensigns of the Arts and some of the mob, desirous
16    III,  III| entreats the magistrates of the Arts to endeavor to pacify the
17    III,  III|        that to gratify them the Arts again met, and demanded
18    III,  III|   caused the magistrates of the Arts and their Syndics to be
19    III,  III|        who, with Syndics of the arts, were to consider what could
20    III,  III|       and the principals of the arts, because they did not think
21    III,  III|       the city was divided into arts, a head or governor was
22    III,  III|      their own superiors. These arts, as we have before observed,
23    III,  III|        and fourteen, the “minor arts.” From this division, and
24    III,  III|        and persecuted the minor arts and their patrons; and hence
25    III,  III|       When the companies of the arts were first organized, many
26    III,  III|         were ranged under those arts most nearly allied to them;
27    III,  III|       always attainable. Of the arts, that which had always had,
28    III,  III|   woolen, but also of the other arts, were discontented, from
29    III,  III|         with the syndics of the arts were endeavoring to effect
30    III,  IV |    force, by the leaders of the arts, and by the Gonfaloniers,
31    III,  IV |      three new companies of the arts; namely, one for the wool
32    III,  IV |     required that the three new arts should furnish two Signors;
33    III,  IV |     Signors; the fourteen minor arts, three; and that the Signory
34   VIII,  VII|       of Florence—His taste for arts and literature—The university
35   VIII,  VII|    admirer of excellence in the arts, and a patron of literary